When NVIDIA launched their GTX 10XX series graphics cards the company announced that they’ve cancelled the 3- and 4-way SLI support from their drivers only continuing developments on 2-way SLI. Listening in closer to what AMD was talking about during the launch of their RX Vega cards - or actually what they didn’t talk about - it seems like AMD could also remove 3- and 4-way support from future drivers.


Back when AMD launched the RX 480 Polaris-based cards AMD was talking the press through support for multi-GPU setups in-depth and therefore killing this feature off would be quite a change of heart. Looking at the story from a developer’s perspective it makes sense since multi-GPU implementation in games has always been difficult of the different game studios out there. On the other hand there is quite a substantial number of users out there who went and spent the money for 3-way or even 4-way systems and it looks like NVIDIA as well as AMD are going to let them stand in the rain.

What remains to be added is that we’re hoping that future games will at least receive better support for the different architectures. It would be nice to see such support increase frames per second in games. But honestly, we’re not believing that this is really going to happen.




Source: OC3D