many things have been changing in the world of multiple graphics cards but the
pursuit of higher and smoother frame rates is not one of them if you thought
the performance of 1 1080 on its own was pretty insane this may actually admit
you the cards we will be featuring for this performance testing will be dual
EVGA GTX 1080 superclocked edition cards
hell yeah
Intel skull Canyon knock features a sixth generation core i7 processor and
Thunderbolt 3 learn more at the link in the video description let's start off
with the cards shall we the cooler design is identical to the 1070
superclocked that we checked out from EVGA not that long ago check out that
video up here I'm not personally a fan
of the overabundance of massive text logos but others in the office are
totally a fan and as it's an aesthetic thing you're free to pick your poison I
will admit that outside of the logos I really like the overall style and would
say that it suits modern computer components as a whole quite well if
you're going for a cohesive component design specs wise it features a stock 5+
one powerphase design a single 8 Pin power connector 217 watts of max power
draw and a boost clock of 1847 MHz which
surpasses the founders edition's clock speed of
1733 in terms of connectivity it features a a single HDMI 2.0 connector
three DisplayPort 1.4 connectors for 4K at 120 HZ or 8K at 60 HZ and a dual link
DVID connector but enough of that put down thine simple specs and release The
Benchmark results in all their lustrous Glory okay okay whoa there calm calm
down uh when linked together by the annoyingly expensive but rather
attractive EVGA high bandwidth SLI Bridge with all of its RGB LED Glory the
results are rather fantastic oh and by the way you can turn off the lights on
the little thing by just moving the switch just between two of the colors
and leaving it there it just kind of doesn't shine at that point the direct
X11 performance in Tomb Raider and Crisis 3 scaled rather well considering
the intensity of our settings putting everything above the highest available
preset when possible and running everything at 4K yes you can run really
intensely hard to run games at 4K with
Max settings and Achieve High higher than 60 FPS on average that happened
hell yeah I'm so jacked up right now but there are issues with this as you
probably expected so before I get too excited we have to remember that this is
a multiple GPU config that we're talking about and it will inherently have issues
like in Hitman where it barely scaled at all and created massive frame rate drops
and stutters there's an unofficial fix through NVIDIA inspector but it's
definitely not perfect perfect either and has a number of its own issues then
there was running directx12 benchmarks which just didn't scale because well
they couldn't the whole abstraction layer that is required from Microsoft
before all that fancy new stuff I mentioned in this WTF is going on with
SLI video which you should really go watch totally isn't ready as of making
this video anyways uh another really
interesting tidbit has to do with the aformentioned SLI Bridge what if you
don't want to buy an expensive SLI bridge and want to use one of the old
original solid Bridges or even the ribbon cable Bridges well we do have
this infographic but are there any actual performance differences Yes
actually and in exactly the order you would expect which is rather satisfying
the ribbon cable performs the worst the old solid bridge is slightly better and
the new fancy high bandwidth Bridge wins hrah and by a noticeable amount my I add
an exactly 2fps Delta is nothing to
scoff at it may not be worth the price to you but it's something to consider as
you may find it offers an aesthetic Improvement as well moving on we have
the power draw and even with two damn cards running in Crisis 3 the whole
bench only pulled 437 Watts from the wall while the first card ran at 81° and
the second card ran at 73° which is pretty cool and to be fair though that
was on an open test PCH impressive overall today we're highlighting the
k7xx black headphones of course from
Mast drop it still has a bunch of other cool products which you can check out on
the link in the video description and hopefully you guys already know about Mast drop they're the company where a
bunch of people buy something all at once which makes the price go down the
more and more people commit to buying it the ones we're showcasing in this video
are the same as the ones that L reviewed last year and you can check out that
full review up in the video up here do remember that this is a limited drop so
if you want to pair you're going to have to act pretty fast these headphones have
large cushiony ear cups a flat wire voice coil ver motion two-layer
diaphragm genuine leather headband memory foam ear pads and vure covering
they have a 2-year warranty covered by mast drop and you can order them outside of the US but a $25 fee will be assessed
for all International orders so if you want to check them out and grab a pair
head over to the link in the video description down below all right guys thanks for watching if you like the
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our community Forum which you should totally join so you can discuss stuff
like SLI problems that you will inevitably have if you have multiple
cards or the awesome performance in like the two games that you can actually get
it working in anyways check out this video I mentioned it earlier in the
video but it's the WT f is going on with SLI thing really interesting subject and
I suggest you check it out