Any Quad 2080 TI SLI ray tracing results? Most convincing and complex real time Ray tracing?

The only convincing real time ray trace I have seen is in very bare simple situations, such as a room with one light and a ball which even then tanked a 2080ti to about 10fps given the number of effective ray cast needed to pull off a convincing look. Minecraft and quake all looked great with lots of ray cast for instance, but those are very simple games. I cant really notice it in any aaa games like tomb raider, unless its a very certain situation, and even then it isnt convincing.

- all done with a gtx 970! I wonder how that would compare to a quad sli 2080ti

I have a feeling that alot of what turing offers is mainly driver and firmware optimizations for it, or am I wrong? I would love to see some comparison of how ray tracing is done with newer hardware in real time vs older hardware such as the 970 above.

 

More than two NVIDIA GPUs in SLI has not been supported since Maxwell.

 

I've seen people do it with 1080ti, mainly the benchmarkers and hardcore crysis lovers who brag about getting 60fps in 8k.

 

NVIDIA limited to 2 cards with RTX. No one figured out how to do Quad unofficially yet

 

Titan RTX 3xSLI Config: https://www.computerbase.de/2019-02/8pack-orion-x2/

 

You can certainly utilize as many RTX GPUs as you need for rendering, Nvidia themselves will offer a 40 GPU RTX blade servers, but of course this will require proprietary drivers and software:
https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2019/03/18/rtx-server-lineup-expands/

Does it actually play games using all 3 cards or they put 3 of those "just because", to increase costs to maximum?

Edit: Ok, I looked up the specs of this Orion setup. Pretty much what I expected:

• Two water cooled NVIDIA RTX Titan with 24GB GDDR6 VRAM connected in NV-Link for incredible gaming graphical performance, or three water cooled NVIDIA RTX Titan run independently for computational/rendering operation.

 

indeed havent read the fineprint cuz its a tiny weeny bit out of my financial league

 

I think it's out of most people's financial league ;-)

 

I had 8 1080ti to one computer but they where mining for me. 8 1080t's with 4gb of Ram and a celeron cpu.

 

lol quite the well balanced rig id say, noooo risk of cpu bottlenecking xD

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the cpu was running Boinc

 

That's a pretty expensive setup, I used 1070 cards instead when they were still possible to find ;-) Did you use a motherboard with m.2-to-PCIe adapters or some model with more than 7 PCIe slots?

 

I used the Asus Prime z270-a mobo that had 7 PCI slots and a m.2 to PCI adapter. I was mining zcash at that time. At the top, I had about 110 gpus mining zcash. I sold all of them in November before everything started to crash and gpus where still going for top dollar.

 

Nice. I mostly used to mine ETH until the price has dropped. It was fun experience, even dealing with various issues like video card thermal pads leaking silicone all over motherboard from all high temps or seeing how fast the cards fail when you don't provide enough cooling to run them constantly. Sadly the price of electricity here made it unprofitable very shortly after prices of currency dropped.

 

lol you guys...im glad that all this cryptomining craze lost most of its relevance now.

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Yea, me too. It really sucked for people who were trying to buy 1070's for actually playing the games. The price of used and abused 1070 cards on eBay (something that no sane person should ever buy because of higher chance of failure and short warranty) was higher than the retail prices on new cards ;-)