GTX 1080 TI SLI NOT GOOD PERFORMANCE

[Gilathiss]

Hello!
I recently bought a two GTX 1080 Ti's. I connected everything, added SLI bridge connected in NVIDIA program and I'm confused. I tested ARK on Epic settings and get in my base about 45-50 FPS in SLI, but when I disabled one card it's almost the same FPS. One card is using max 50% of GPU and in SLI they are using about 30% and I'm wondering why. Also tested out on singleplayer where cards have about 70% of usage. I don't know, is some server setting taking it now or what? Also don't have bottlenecking, because have i9 7900X on board.
Any solutions?

[retsam1]

Last I remember SLI had a small optimization months ago but it seems SLI improvements are not a high priority.

Just morbid curiosity but also what is your ram on that rig?

FPS issues also depend on other factors (such as how urban sprawl/dino parking lot heavy your base/area is. Even us 1080ti folks hit some lower fps in such situations no matter what. FPS-o-philing is really a bad thing to be on Ark thus.

[Vishankashot]

Wanted to Post the same thing, Vid card GPU got melted so had to replace it with 2x gtx 1070's still seeing the same performance as old card, Not sure if you're Refering to Aberration or any other map, but mainly been experiencing it on Aberration more than any other map (40-50 FPS).

[Gilathiss]

It wanders me too, maybe it is not possible to get even more FPS. But in situation when on the exact same settings my friend has 1070&1080 and getting around 10-15 FPS better in same places its kinda weird. This 1080 Ti should be much powerful, and even get the same amount of FPS with better CPU and GPU then my friend but still worse FPSes.
You were asking about ram: 2x16GB of HyperX 3000Mhz DDR4

[Toooni]

Originally posted by Gilathiss:

Hello!
I recently bought a two GTX 1080 Ti's. I connected everything, added SLI bridge connected in NVIDIA program and I'm confused. I tested ARK on Epic settings and get in my base about 45-50 FPS in SLI, but when I disabled one card it's almost the same FPS. One card is using max 50% of GPU and in SLI they are using about 30% and I'm wondering why. Also tested out on singleplayer where cards have about 70% of usage. I don't know, is some server setting taking it now or what? Also don't have bottlenecking, because have i9 7900X on board.
Any solutions?

Multithreading, MultiGPU isn't a strenght of wildcard. They do not understand how this things work and how it can improve the performance.
Dedicated Servers for example are still running mostly on 1 CPU Core. (They have massive performance problems on officials...but still doens't use the multithreading capabilities of the Unreal Engine.

SLI was a little improved a few weeks before the release... but it still far away from a real SLI... you get about 10% more performance by using 2 cards instead of 1.

[=Sarsante=]

Sli is garbage, does not worth at all.

Sell them and buy a 1080ti or a titan xp

[FeilDOW]

Originally posted by =T$ECore= Sarsante:

Sli is garbage, does not worth at all.

Sell them and buy a 1080ti or a titan xp

2 1080 ti are what the OP has, SLI not being fully supported and not utilizing both GPU's to there full potential would be a smarter answer.

[Simon1279]

This game does not depends on GPU pure power but also CPU power, i had an I7 4770k and a GTX 1080 and i had at best 52 FPS just in some circumstances, after i upgraded my system to an I7 8700k occked it to 5ghz and with a GTX 1080 TI, everything changed to maximum graphic settings and a solid 55/60 FPS.

Edit:
It is better to have a single GPU instead of SLI, SLI it is not even near to a double GPU pure power, but a poor scaling between 2 GPU, with the money spent for 2 1080 it is totally better to buy a single titan, it is always better to have a single GPU instead of SLI or Crossfire

[=Sarsante=]

Originally posted by FeilDOW:

Originally posted by =T$ECore= Sarsante:

Sli is garbage, does not worth at all.

Sell them and buy a 1080ti or a titan xp

2 1080 ti are what the OP has, SLI not being fully supported and not utilizing both GPU's to there full potential would be a smarter answer.

No, sli is garbage its not only an ark issue.

Basically games never run 100% percent on both cards giving you a super performance boost. Its the way its, poorly supported thats why its garbage.

You can find seceral benchmark videos comparing 1 card performance and sli and the result is never what people expect.

Its almost always better a single more powerful card than 2.

[FeilDOW]

Originally posted by =T$ECore= Sarsante:

Originally posted by FeilDOW:

2 1080 ti are what the OP has, SLI not being fully supported and not utilizing both GPU's to there full potential would be a smarter answer.

No, sli is garbage its not only an ark issue.

Basically games never run 100% percent on both cards giving you a super performance boost. Its the way its, poorly supported thats why its garbage.

You can find seceral benchmark videos comparing 1 card performance and sli and the result is never what people expect.

Its almost always better a single more powerful card than 2.

If you have an SLI setup I might listen to you but this sounds more like a butt hurt comment more than anything. You can always cherry pick vids/games from YouTube to just show games with bad support and shove all the games with good support off to the side to make your point, but with someone that has SLI 1080 ti's and had CF 290x's for years before so I have hands on experience not YouTube vids.

Ark just had bad to no SLI support.

[=Sarsante=]

Originally posted by FeilDOW:

Originally posted by =T$ECore= Sarsante:

No, sli is garbage its not only an ark issue.

Basically games never run 100% percent on both cards giving you a super performance boost. Its the way its, poorly supported thats why its garbage.

You can find seceral benchmark videos comparing 1 card performance and sli and the result is never what people expect.

Its almost always better a single more powerful card than 2.

If you have an SLI setup I might listen to you but this sounds more like a butt hurt comment more than anything. You can always cherry pick vids/games from YouTube to just show games with bad support and shove all the games with good support off to the side to make your point, but with someone that has SLI 1080 ti's and had CF 290x's for year before I won't buy it.

Ark just had bad to no SLI support.

not butthurt is someone that does reseach before buying hardware. I was going to get a second 1080 but i will get a 1080ti instead.

[Altair]

Abberation has fps problem on slow hardware due to many dinos are spawned in such closed space.I had like more than 50 fish spawned in river near my home what caused high fps drop until I killed them.

[FeilDOW]

Originally posted by =T$ECore= Sarsante:

Originally posted by FeilDOW:

If you have an SLI setup I might listen to you but this sounds more like a butt hurt comment more than anything. You can always cherry pick vids/games from YouTube to just show games with bad support and shove all the games with good support off to the side to make your point, but with someone that has SLI 1080 ti's and had CF 290x's for year before I won't buy it.

Ark just had bad to no SLI support.

not butthurt is someone that does reseach before buying hardware. I was going to get a second 1080 but i will get a 1080ti instead.

I would do that as well but if 1 1080 ti doesn't cut it at 4k 60fps the second is nice to have. It all depends on the user and what they are aiming for, and also the type of games you play and res/refresh rate should greatly determine whether or not SLI is worth it. It's not as cut and dry as you make it.

[V_Cred]

I do have a good performance using a old and fx 8120 + gtx 1060 6GB + 8GB DDR3. Its so weird those guys with i7 don't getting good performance. Playing in 1080p mix epic / high.

[FeilDOW]

Originally posted by Vinicius:

I do have a good performance using a old and fx 8120 + gtx 1060 6GB + 8GB DDR3. Its so weird those guys with i7 don't getting good performance.

Everyone has different standards. Both my rigs one with a R5 1600 and the other with a 8700k both with 1080 ti's run great.

Curious what you call good performance?

[V_Cred]

Originally posted by FeilDOW:

Originally posted by Vinicius:

I do have a good performance using a old and fx 8120 + gtx 1060 6GB + 8GB DDR3. Its so weird those guys with i7 don't getting good performance.

Everyone has different standards. Both my rigs one with a R5 1600 and the other with a 8700k both with 1080 ti's run great.

Curious what you call good performance?

60 fps most of the time, with some downs to 45 / 55 in hard places. Based in my old CPU if I had an i7 or even a Ryzen I would desire or expect to get a stable frame experience.