I wouldn't give up yet, I have a feeling they'll be releasing the 16 GB version with HBM2 later on as a few articles on the web have stated.

NazcaC2
I wouldn't give up yet, I have a feeling they'll be releasing the 16 GB version with HBM2 later on as a few articles on the web have stated.

By then, I'm sure we'll have big Pascal (or we'll be very close to its release), which will likely destroy little Pascal by a large margin.

That's what I'm referring to.

NazcaC2
That's what I'm referring to.

Ah, by version I thought you were referring to a GTX 1080, but with more VRAM and HBM2 (sort of how we used to see 4GB version of the 680 or 6GB versions of the 780).  

look this is just like the 780's and the 780 ti's 3/way sli and thin 4/way sli's for ti's only . and sli mean more than one card hook up together in sli . 2,3,4 lol. just like they tryed to say my titan black wouldn't do 4/way sli and suround . the web sight at5 nvida is wrong and i have the email from both evga and nvida to prove it . and my titanblacks are running in 4/way sli in suround at 7680 by 1440 with some great numbers. look  at mod regs to see so as i said i will wate on the titans and 4/way to come out befor i upgrade. not going to get got on the 780 to 780ti thing ,like last time.

When the time comes and the top tear cards are out and they still won't support 3-4 way Sli.........good buy Nvidia for me.

Sajin

TheSadClown
Reword your title. It is very misleading. 

How is it misleading? If nvidia is only optimizing for sli then that clearly means 3-way & 4-way aren't getting optimizations.

When I first read it, it sounded like they were not going to support that whole thing with mixing with AMD cards (not that we have even seen that happen yet...lol)

This does make complete sense for them to do this. The market value for people going 3x 4x SLI was not way up there. More coding, more SLI support means more money they pay their engineers. So, cut that back, and more money for the wise guys. Yep... Jen Hsun coming home with a fatter check and paying engineers less money. lmao...

stalinx20
This does make complete sense for them to do this. The market value for people going 3x 4x SLI was not way up there. More coding, more SLI support means more money they pay their engineers. So, cut that back, and more money for the wise guys. Yep... Jen Hsun coming home with a fatter check and paying engineers less money. lmao...

That's often the hard part.  You have to remember that this is a business and it is costly.  Putting on the game developers where it should be has never worked out, either.
 
Sajin is a very intelligent individual along with many others here.  They get this, they just don't like it.  It is difficult when your area of use is 'attacked'.  In this scenario, there is no chance of it working itself through because they have now made it physically impossible with physics of the card and HB bridge.  We have to wait and see what they do with the higher end Pascal.

I do want to see an end user benchmark with the original SLI bridge and the HB SLI Bridge.