FACEPALM......

In a world where less games benefit from SLI, why waste the time setting up the traces and hardware to support it?

I always get two cards but rarely enable SLI, just because I want to use them for folding and running extra monitors without affecting the main GPU.

The new bridge thing is just plain silly. Hopefully they enable more compute bandwidth and memory stacking with this iteration of NVlink, since that was initially the intent of NVlink.

the_Scarlet_one
In a world where less games benefit from SLI, why waste the time setting up the traces and hardware to support it?

It's a self-fulfilling prophesy where Nvidia setup a whole hardware ecosystem for SLI and then squandered it away over the course of the last decade. Nvidia didn't properly support SLI for developers so therefore it is depreciating it as a thing in it's current hardware. Rationalizing getting rid of features they've had around forever, because they can't be bothered to do it right. It still doesn't explain at all why it's on the 3090 as an actual feature if it's not supported in anything. This is marketing double-talk. This means Nvidia can only be bothered to support it in a couple of synthetic benchmark tests to skew their marketing numbers instead of being bothered to cooperate to have it work on real-world games.
 
Makes me wonder what other features Nvidia will drop that have been around forever because they can't be bothered with them? My guess is Nvidia Surround is next on the chopping block. It's a slippery slope that started when they dropped Nvidia 3D Vision as a thing. Culling features they touted as premium reasons why you should buy Nvidia over Radeon and now getting rid of those things because they failed to properly support the features to wide adoption. Nvidia will punish the consumers for their own failures by removing features they've had around for over a decade. It will be rationalized by stating why would you need 2 of a 3000-series card when it obliterates the competition right now. Game development doesn't live in a static bubble. 3-5 years down the road our 3090's will be selling on ebay as paper weights and something else will be out there selling for $1600 that obliterates every game in 2023.

It's time to just pull the plug on SLI. It's been on life support long enough, put it out of it's misery. 

when mGPU compute thru PCIe works just as well as sli ....why?
 
the other point is unless developers are gonna add features that use nvlink, SLI,or mGPU features its not gonna be utilized
 
the only use right now is for Compute ..ie HPC...folding or crunching and thats only for BIG projects

GTXJackBauer
Why is everyone up in arms over a $79 NVLink Bridge?    What about the GPU that costs $1499 x 2 to use that $79 bridge?   

Common, lets be logical here folks.  The person who can afford $3000 in GPUs could surely afford a $79 bridge to link them together.  

The common sense of some post around here is just ridiculous. Stop it!

I fore-see Nvidia taking a hit in the near future, and not in a good way. You keep screwing part of your customer base, eventually even to stupid customers will realize your calling them stupid, and cashing in on their own stupidity...

Nereus, Id reply comment to ur reply, but thers kids around, and years back, XRAY asked me to start playing nice!
 
It was my own opinion, and I was right about Intel sitting on their azzes too long, and look what happened!

Brad_Hawthorne

atfrico
Ah as.expected Nvidia wants you to spend lots of money once again. I guess their business tactics havent change a bit.🙄

It's also the reason why there isn't a 20GB 3080 from the AIBs. It's an artificial marketing construct that needn't exist except for price point delineation. These are anti-consumer practices.

I know but it is astonishing how you, i and a few others notice this.🤔 It is obvious and the so called fans chose to ignore it🤷.

here people are complaining because they are losing sli or nvlink
 
excuse me there is NO AMD CROSSFIRE who dropped what first.... at least Nvidia continued with NVlink
 
 
if you can't afford an upgrade sell your old card - get a second job
geez go by a second card card to SLi??? heck if you sold your first one you can damn well afford the new card with the combined spending $$$
people need priorities.....you don't need a Expensive Car or home ... you don't need to go to bar or travel to foreign lands
figure what you want and then figure out how to make it happen...it might means brown bagging for awhile
 
 
https://www.techradar.com/news/nvidia-sli-and-amd-crossfire-is-dead-but-should-we-mourn-multi-gpu-gaming
 
Perhaps the biggest limiting factor was the law of diminishing returns, which multi-GPU systems encounter. What we mean by this is that by adding a second GPU, you’re not actually doubling the graphical power of your system. Most best case scenarios offer around a 50% increase.
 
As many PC gamers realised, a far more reliable (and affordable) way to get a boost in performance is to buy a single more powerful GPU, rather than two or more less powerful cards.
 
That’s not the only extra cost associated with a multi-GPU setup. Running more graphics cards ups the power consumption of your PC (increasing electricity bills) and also produces more heat – leading to a noisier PC. For too many PC gamers, these are compromises they’re not willing to make.