Nvidia introduces the GeForce GTX 980 and 970 today. More on this in our extensive review. What's the performance of these cards in tandem, you might wonder. Well, we've tested the GTX 980 in SLI, 3-way SLI, and 4-way SLI. So here goes!

Setting up the configurations was quite hassle-free, which certainly isn't always the case. We know that from experience. The only thing we had to do was update the BIOS on our MSI X99S Gaming 9 AC motherboard, that was basically it. There were some problems when it came to scaling to three or four cards, but that's to be expected. The only game that didn't feel like doing anything in certain configurations was Total War: Rome II. A reboot generally solved these issues though.

What struck us most during testing the GTX 980 and GTX 970 cards was the power consumption. Let's put it this way, you no longer need a 1500W PSU to be able to run four high-end graphics cards (in this case the GTX 980) on Haswell-E.