10 Replies Latest reply: Jul 2, 2013 3:17 PM by ECBowen RSS

    Whether to SLI or not to SLI, that is the question.

    Nicol Simard Community Member

      With the arrival of the new PPro CC, the usage of two GPUs is implemented. I was excited when I found out about this but I wondered if we could use NVidia cards in SLI configuration or not. Well, today I have the answer: you get better results if you setup your cards in SLI. Obviously, you must follow the NVidia rules to set up two cards in SLI: same GPU, same speed, etc.

       

      I tested this with two Titan cards exporting a 21 minute video. With one card only, my computer took 5' 45" to export. With two cards (no SLI), it took 5'; and with two cards (SLI), the computer took 4' 10".

       

      Word of warning: my set-up needs tons of electricity to work. My APC Smart-UPS 1500 gave me five warnings that I had exceeded the load threshold (80%) but luckily it wasn't by much: only 1%.