A Farewell To SLI

Another important piece of info: with Crossfire, you could run two different models of AMD GPU based on the same architecture, together. While Nvidia SLI required that both GPUs be the same. NVLink no longer has that restriction.

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Total Linus but done better

Sli was so sexy, I remember when the biggest flex possible was a 4 way titan x setup

Excellent !!. This video just answered a lot of my ???. Thank you !

We need multi gpu support now more than ever. It was NEVER about buying two brand new cards and then complaining about it not being double the performance... that narrative got skewed over the years. For most of us it was about getting the best card you could at the time and then when you could upgrade you could choose a brand new single card or buy another one of the same model you have for a lot cheaper than new and have faster performance. We always only expected 35% more witth the second card. Compare that with the usual 20-25% uplift from the previous gen at that time and you had a real choice as a budget gamer.

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lol Canadians will never know the horror of Golden Corral and Ponderosa.

What microphone do you use for your videos?

My only SLI setup was a 2x780ti back in 2013 running Battlefield 4

Am I the only one here to actually remember SLI being great, across the board? As in when I was in college the ability to use a used 400 or 500 series in my tower to improve my performance was a game changer for my low budget student life? Or the fact that with the 900 series I could do a pair of 980ti's at near 75% performance increase over a single card?

Now it seems like the choice is between upgrade and fight over the newest card or "be a peasant".

The arguments against SLI seem to be just excuses for companies like AMD and Nvidea to force buyers into newer cards, much like the those stupid mining only cards that can't be re-used for gaming.

SLI allowed gamers stuck on a budget to get an upgrade for pennies on the dollar via used hardware, allowing them to hold off until the next gen to save and jump into the next big build for them.

Now the budget alternative is to get a single 2060? So if you were lucky enough to afford a 2060 at the time you can't compete with 3070+ guys by dropping in a second used card for a few hundred and buying a 40series later on? So if you can't afford the latest and greatest you are stuck with what you have without any real means to enjoy an upgrade for longer? Meanwhile those used cards mostly get sent to the trash or fade away in an attic now.

SLI made older GPU's into the PC equivalent of what the 90's JDM cars like the EG-EK civic, S13-S14, FC RX7 NA-NB Miata etc were. A used, but low cost alternative to the rich folk go fast standard, that if you had the ability, could make you great gains.

Now with the death of SLI and crossfire, that is gone.

This should have been a more sober farewell, rather than an "okay, well I guess it was fun?" kind of deal.

I dunno... Considering a new GPU can be over 3000 dollars, those of us that haven't been able to afford these would play the newer games if we could double up our old GPU's with a second hand one to bridge the performance gap. Like you said, that's up to the game makers now to build their software to support that.

Ah, that explained why GPU are getting fatter and fatter at each release.

Now many 3D artist uses multi-GPU for their work, like the guy who bought 4 RTX 3090

What? I'm still here.

What's up with your eyes, bro?

Golden Corral is a place where you wonder why you haven't eaten there in years, then after you eat there, you remember why you won't eat there for several more years.

if i had the money id still be using sli . or some form of it .

Introducing
3DFX The guy who said it
Nvidia The guy who said it louder

"a farewell to SLI"
99.9% of viewers never even said "hello"

Wow, 1024 by 768 we will never need more than that.
Mark my words.

I'd love to see multi-gpu without SLI but instead some sort of (Vulkan?) more clever use of cards, now that everything is fully programmable.

Like physics on the other card, or background mip-map rendering, or other wacky non-graphics but certainly gpu-optimizable work.

Its so stupid that they stopped suporting sli and crosfire.... Let me spend my money ffs!

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Put your glasses on, you look creepy.

What about mining and scientific calculations, those still use quite often more than one card? SLI is not dead I'm afraid

Linus looks kinda weird here

still dont understand the amount or red on sking in LTT videos. riley looks like hes wearing lipstick and eyeshadow, or has been crying on cocaine all night.

Whenever I build computers for people, I usually have to fight my friends because they argue for more expensive motherboards, and I keep telling them that multi-card setups are a dumb idea. My friends continue to insist on 850W PSUs and the most expensive ROG motherboards and end up spending more on the motherboard than the CPU, because the motherboard has excellent multi-GPU support. Only one of my friends has done SLI for more than a year. I straight up can't deal with it. I just watched someone get a $200 CPU and a $320 motherboard on a $1400 setup. Am I crazy? Are their builds imbalanced? A $1400 setup can definitely fit a Ryzen 7, it shouldn't have been a Ryzen 5.

Why do riley look like he cried before he started

What's worse than 2 fast GPUs in SLI with diminishing returns? 2 slow GPUs in SLI with diminishing returns. My laptop is only about as fast as a PS4 and that's if SLI works. Otherwise it can barely run games at all. Even Minecraft runs pretty badly. If you need SLI, use 2 fast video cards. Otherwise just use 1 fast GPU instead of 2 slower GPUs.

Holy shit. I completely forgot about 3dfx. Time flies, man. Time flies.

The voodoo chips - my first 300$ card

Why do I feel like I'm watching a 70s porn movie about computers?

I really wish that Vram was more like Regular Ram, and I could just add more graphics cards for more Vram lol

for bf4 on 21:9 1440p the 980sli was goodness send by heaven

multi gpu during the early 2010s were cool af. I remember dreaming hard to have one of those setups. good times.

I can see why the GPU manufacturers aren't keen on this because people could by two lower end cards and have better potential performance than a single high end GPU, for less money BUT I think they're missing a very important point.
High end GPU cards ARE expensive, and most PC enthusiasts won't be able to take full advantage, anyway, as they're less likely to have the high resolution monitor(s) and refresh rates needed.
Those who are financially well resourced will be looking for the best performance, period, and are most likely to have the high resolution monitor(s) and refresh rates to actually max' out a single highest end card, and so would have the money and desire to purchase a second (or third or fourth) high end card to make the best use of their monitor(s).

So, since the GPU manufactures are limited in the top end cards they can build, wouldn't it be a smart move on their part to restrict multi-card (even triple or quad') interfaces and support to their top, or top two, cards? That would potentially add to their sales of the higher profit cards as the cutting edge people would buy extra cards, without compromising the lower end sales - well, maybe by giving another reason for the enthusiast on a budget to stretch a little to buy a card that has multi' support 'just in case'.

crossfire is still better in my opinion. doing crossfire for newer gpus dont need a bridge.

Yep, the first series to support SLI was 5 series, not 6.

anyone else notice riley's hand tan line

Sleeping ok? Your eyes make me a little sad. :/

damn I really thought I heard Linus...

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When XFX still produced Nvidia cards