Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Are SLI and Crossfire DYING?”.
Do you remember a time not so long ago, when one of the hallmarks of a super high-end gaming ERG was having multiple graphics cards and why not? You could get high settings high resolutions and high frame rates to a point unattainable by mere mortals. But here we are in 2019 and it almost seems, like things have taken a step backwards and that it’s becoming less and less common to see SLI and crossfire setups. So why is this the case when gamers are still interested in getting the best experience possible? So, as we partially explained in a previous video part of the lack of appeal comes from technical issues inherent to the platform you see in a dual GPU set up. Each GPU renders every other frame in a process called alternate frame, rendering which makes intuitive sense, but not only do the cards have a hard time syncing up with each other, producing a visual glitch called micro.
Stutter AFR also doesn’t always play nicely with more modern and high aliasing methods that rely on data from the previous frame to guess what the next frame should look like and newer technologies. How didn’t completely solve the problems that cards in a multi GPU setup have communicating with each other on the nvidia side, although there’s a new bus called envy link which has greater bandwidth and traditional sli, not all of its features, such as resource pooling work with consumer Grades cards it was designed for professional GPU, compute applications in mind, not gamers. Newer api such as Vulcan and DirectX 12 also haven’t made the situation any easier for the average consumer. You see in the past SLI and crossfire took a more active role in handling the task of splitting game workloads across cards. However, newer api’s give more control to the game developer so that they can code from multi-gpu in a way that they see fit. And although this sounds like it could lead to games using multiple cards more efficiently, it turns out that developers simply don’t want to take on the burden.
Some extra workload of coding, specifically for a setup that not many people are using. So lots of modern games simply are not well optimized for multi GPU and, as if all of these issues weren’t enough to keep gamers away from SLI and crossfire the fact that cards are now more powerful makes multi-gpu even less appealing. Although many of us marvel at 4k ultra wide and multi monitor gaming battle stations, the fact is that most gamers are still playing at 1080p and a solid single current gen card can run most games at high or even maximum settings at smooth frame rates, which wasn’t Necessarily the case just a few years ago, this means that a problem that multi GPU has already had buying two cards and then having a single card from the next generation come along and provide more similar performance is even more pronounced nowadays and with many gamers.
Simply not caring about niche setups with diminishing returns or having the money to even afford them. If they do care, there hasn’t been a compelling case for more multi-gpu adoption and, of course, being surprised that SLI and crossfire aren’t more popular presupposes that graphically demanding games are dominating the market. While there still are plenty of beautiful triple-a. Titles that end up becoming bestsellers. There’S been a resurgent interest in 2d and retro style games that don’t require nearly as much computing muscle to run. You simply do not need a $ 2000 multi-gpu rig to run cuphead or Sonic mania, and even many popular current 3d titles like fortnight, don’t require expensive hardware as they’re designed for a broad appeal rather than the best looking graphics possible.
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