Kk. I edited my response. 142 to 172 FPS is still not a big percentage increase. (it is bigger than you or I saw at first, though still only about 15%).
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I already know I'm sensitive to microstutter - I had SLI 580s at one point. I just hope the tech has improved, and that my sensitivity to that particular phenomenon hasn't increased. And maybe I'll be OK when I'm able to sustain 60fps V-Synced - that should moderate things, right?
That was my gut instinct right from the very beginning. What's probably going to happen now is that I'll sell one 780, and keep the second one, using the 'it's almost as good as the Titan' justification, but I'll always be kicking myself for not buying the Titan. The Titan was my dream card, I always said that if a card like it came out, I'd buy it right away. But it was just SO expensive over here. I used some kind of pseudo-commonsense to convince myself that the 780s would be better value and that 'they must have sorted out SLI by now'. Also, if the 780s had worked, that would have been the only chance for games like Crysis 3 and Last Light. There's no way I'm lowering IQ enough to make those games work 60fps on a single card. Now I'll just have to wait it out, hopefully in a few years there will be another flagship single card that can, and also better CPUs to support it (for all I know Crysis 3 might be CPU bound below 60fps 30% of the time on a 4770k...)
Wait...now we have threads about SLI stutterfest too?
I thought only xfire stuttered...least that's what the team green boys have been using as this year's meme...
Wait...now we have threads about SLI stutterfest too?
I thought only xfire stuttered...least that's what the team green boys have been using as this year's meme...
Can you show us all here where anybody has ever said that only crossfire stutters? Oubudah is right. You're just stirring and you're not good for much else.
You know all multi gpu configurations have microstutter. You know xfire has a lot more than nvidia does. Yet you still feel obligated to post inflammatory crap like you did here all the time.
Any suggestions for the OP?
I suggest that he use his own judgement with data presented already. Oh and to ignore trolls.
Now ask Will the same question Mr. Neutral.
Did you not read my post to him?
I did now. My apologies. BUT you sympathize with him about something that doesn't exist.
You know, that team green says only xfire has microstutter? Is this true?
You're stirring.
Yes, SLI has always stuttered. Only now it stutters significantly less than Crossfire, and Nvidia seem to be more motivated in doing something about it (not that I think there will be a complete resolution from either party for years).
The important thing is that in some games, sustained framerate and V-Sync completely resolves it. There is no stutter of any kind in UT3 at 120fps when the monitor is refreshing at 120Hz V-Synced. Why can't other engines be the same? Why can't CoD 5 do it? With a single card, V-Sync and 120fps, UT3 and CoD5 are equally smooth.
The SLI stutter with V-Sync is not microstutter* by the way, it's just stutter.
I did see something very much like microstutter in V-Synced Oblivion, but that was special circumstances (Gamebryo is a turd, and the Oblivion Stutter mod was active). Disabling SLI did, however, resolve it.
It sounds like you are just extremely sensitive to microstutter and may be best off with a single card. However, there is one thing you did not mention, which you could try.
Try turning off v-sync and uses a FPS limiter set just below your average FPS. Basically, this would be the fix AMD users recommend, and it may just work for Nvidia as well.
I think I've made a huge mistake. Out of the eight games I've tried on the 780s so far, only one of them has been playable. They exhibit various forms of stutter with V-Sync, and I've confirmed microstutter with it disabled (not that I would have played without V-Sync anyway). 'Smooth V-Sync' is useless, and SLI kills Adaptive V-Sync at Half Refresh, causing the screen to flicker.
The one game that runs absolutely flawlessly smooth with SLI and V-Sync is UT2004. Great. The one game where GPU horsepower was never ever going to be an issue.
The second best was Skyrim, but SLI kills HDR lighting, so that's the end of that.
What's worse is that even a single GTX 780 did not feel as smooth as the GTX 580 in certain games (including Skyrim).
In F.E.A.R, a single GTX 780 exhibits behavior that stinks of the GTX 680 etc. 'V-Sync Stutter Bug'.