Hey guys, I'd like to upgrade my rig from a single to a triple screen. My question is, if there is a big loss in performance or is the difference in performance between single and triple screen not so big?
With GTX660 huge, with Titan almost unvisible ... Joke, tell us your hardware specifications, please .
EVGA GTX 750 2GB Intel Core i5 3470 8GB Ram With my current graphic settings in Raceroom I get about 60 FPS
I am sorry, but I am not sure about triple with this hardware. Before I upgraded my PC, I had i7 3xxx (can´t remember), 16Gb ram and 660Ti and with 5760x1080 resolution/all low I get on average barely 60 FPS with some AI cars. I get 15-20 more with 4800x900 or 3840x720, as I remember. It was before all last game`s upgrades.
There should be a minimum specs for running triples for gaming but I suppose it all depends on what you are willing to endure. With my specs, FX8350, 32GDDR, GTX780Ti, SSD and resolution 5760x1080, I have medium settings and mostly shows off and fps in the 60+. But with the slightest bottleneck or extra demand from the GPU, all goes to shit. I have my next upgrade set for the new GTX980Ti 6G
I also run triple screen with a GTX770 w/4G ... can run around medium. But from what I have been reading and searching ... the more RAM you have the better. I would love to get another GTX770 4g to make total of 8g .. but I do not think R3E supports dual cards. I could be wrong. I would definately get a card with ALOT of RAM
i went from a 660ti to a 970 on a triple setup. i was mostly medium settings on the 660ti (55-60fps). 970 can handle a fair bit more, but still running medium shaders with (mostly) high settings for the rest. motion blur and bloom are turned off, the rest is on. i do need to drop some settings on the 970; i'm sometimes dropping to around 45-50fps and it's very noticeable at times. vRam isn't THAT high on r3e triples. The 4gb 970 runs well within limits. if you get 60fps on a single 1920x1080, then going to triple 1080's will approximately drop fps to 1/3 (so around 20fps). If you see benchmarks for 4k gaming, you can roughly add 25% of those 4k figures to your triple screen. (4x 1920x1080 screens is 4k pixel count).
just an update... i see FPS drop below 60 before i get beyond about 2.6gb vRam used, on the 970gtx. hope that gives you a bit of a guideline for utilization..
Ahm... Does someone has any experience with radeon cards? If yes... what about a MSI R9 380 with 4GB? Might this be a good thing or is it still not good enough?
Doesn't scale like that I'm afraid. SLI configurations only use the amount of ram that's on a single card. Doesn't matter if it's 2, 3 or 4 way SLI, only the ram amount of 1 single card is addressable. So 4 x GTX770 4g SLI, will result in the system still only having 4GB's of Vram. This is one of the reasons, it's often better to buy 1 single good card, rather than two lesser cards, as the former would usually offer more memory. BTW I'm using 2x Zotec GTX 980TI Amp Extreme cards, and get brilliant results.
A bit old thread but with my specs in most tracks and conditions i get 143 constant fps in triple screens Most graphical settings in high but shadows and reflections in medium and not that high AA.