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2017/08/01 00:41:01 (permalink)
http://www.gamersnexus.net/news-pc/3005-amd-moving-away-from-crossfire-with-rx-vega
 
It seems the industry as a whole is moving away from multi-GPU configurations and AMD will adapt to this change. 

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    Re: AMD Distancing from CrossFire with RX Vega 2017/08/01 10:55:57 (permalink)
    I find the moving away from multiple GPU's puzzling just when it's easier than ever to support multiple GPU setups and now a first where cross brand manufacturers are supported. If anything with the release of Directx12 it should be the opposite. So either GPU manufacturers want to secure a larger one GPU price instead of competing for 2 or more spots and/or game developers have gotten so lazy it's not worth the effort to give them support when they won't use it to any good measure in their games.
     
    I view this as regressive and not something positive for PC gaming or gamers.
     
     
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    Re: AMD Distancing from CrossFire with RX Vega 2017/08/01 10:57:43 (permalink)
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    I find the moving away from multiple GPU's puzzling just when it's easier than ever to support multiple GPU setups and now a first where cross brand manufacturers are supported. If anything with the release of Directx12 it should be the opposite. So either GPU manufacturers want to secure a larger one GPU price instead of competing for 2 or more spots and/or game developers have gotten so lazy it's not worth the effort to give them support when they won't use it to any good measure in their games.
     
    I view this as regressive and not something positive for PC gaming or gamers.
     
     


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    Re: AMD Distancing from CrossFire with RX Vega 2017/08/01 11:50:41 (permalink)
    Remember all the hype over Win10 & DX12 (pre W10 release) and how easy it will be for game dev's to use/support multi GPU's, combining Vram from different GPU's, etc...?  Makes me wonder what happened to all that.  Or was it really ever going to be possible.  Or just all marketing hype.
     
    I do find it strange that if DX12 was going to be so great for all this, why is Nvidia & AMD both winding down on support for multi GPU's?


     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
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    Re: AMD Distancing from CrossFire with RX Vega 2017/08/01 11:58:25 (permalink)
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    I do find it strange that if DX12 was going to be so great for all this, why is Nvidia & AMD both winding down on support for multi GPU's?

    https://forums.evga.com/FindPost/2679806
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    Re: AMD Distancing from CrossFire with RX Vega 2017/08/01 12:27:26 (permalink)
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    I do find it strange that if DX12 was going to be so great for all this, why is Nvidia & AMD both winding down on support for multi GPU's?

    https://forums.evga.com/FindPost/2679806


    Yeah, I'm aware of all that from the video and it makes sense, but it's really the same thing we were hearing over 2 years ago now.  I realize it takes time for games to be developed, but MS was touting this as "it will be so easy with DX12 for game dev's" to utilize multi GPU's in games" and not necessarily SLI or crossfire.
     
    Basically I was just commenting and thinking out loud about the topic...


     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
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    Re: AMD Distancing from CrossFire with RX Vega 2017/08/01 21:17:18 (permalink)
    fearpoint
    I find the moving away from multiple GPU's puzzling just when it's easier than ever to support multiple GPU setups and now a first where cross brand manufacturers are supported. If anything with the release of Directx12 it should be the opposite. So either GPU manufacturers want to secure a larger one GPU price instead of competing for 2 or more spots and/or game developers have gotten so lazy it's not worth the effort to give them support when they won't use it to any good measure in their games.
     
    I view this as regressive and not something positive for PC gaming or gamers.

    Even if something is DX12 doesn't mean it's optimized for multi-GPU. Much of DX12 is marketing misdirection. One has to implement features within DX12. They don't just come with DX12 by default. And it's not as much as game devs are lazy as Microsoft has been screwing with everything randomly with Windows 10 to the point that software developers can't keep up with their seemingly random render pipeline changes every few months. It's been especially bad with the desktop render pipeline on Windows 10. Creative Update screwed up a lot of things in many cases for no plausible reason at all.
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    Re: AMD Distancing from CrossFire with RX Vega 2017/08/10 19:38:28 (permalink)
    Makes you wonder if MS isn't slowly trying to sabotage pc gaming... 

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