Nvidia dropped support for SLI only like 2 years ago or something…
Edit: 3 years ago
Obvious-Peanut-5399
No.
High end was linking 4.
Draedark
Double the ~~cards~~ cost for +10% performance!
the_abortionat0r
Sorta.
SLI (scanline interlace) was a 3dFX feature of using 2 cards each one rendering half the vertical resolution (doing every other scanline hence the name), it had poor support and varied in success per title.
Nvidia (after publishing FUD that helped kill 3dFX) bought 3dFX’s assets as they went bankrupt and rebranded SLI (scalable link interface or some shit) and did a “everyother frame” style output, the idea being double the FPS.
It had almost no support and worked poorly in the games it did support. If it wasn’t battlefield or CoD you pretty much had one card doing nothing 99% of the time.
And if you ran a title that did support SLI you’d be greeted with insane micro stutter.
The people who are mad its a dead tech are the ones that don’t understand it.
Quick_Performance243
2 Voodoo 2’s SLI baby!
SynthRogue
Yes. High end today means overrpriced cards that can’t run current gen games at max settings without generating fake frames.
Riot55
I had dual 8800 GTS 512mb cards. When Crysis came out, it was like peak PC hardware building time IMO. So much visual progress being made in gaming graphics back then, parts were not insanely expensive, it was fun discussing parts and builds on forums, and everyone had a common enemy (getting Crysis to run lol)
Frannik87
X4 Titan sli. That was high end.
Amilo159
It was called SLI and it resulted in far more than 10%, often 30-70% increase, but there were some games where there was little to no gain.
You know they gonna come back with this in one way or another when they run out of ideas to fleece the master race.
thxredditfor2banns
SLI good idea shit execution
PheIix
I ran SLI on GTX 8800. Honestly I never felt it did much better than my friend who was running a single card. But it was still cool to show off at LAN parties through the clear plastic side of my cooler master scout.
agemennon675
Sounds good doesn’t work unfortunately
NoctisXLC
Nvidia sli? It’s 3dfx sli you damn kids
ohthedarside
Genuine question why did we stop using sli because with modern tech couldn’t we get rid of the problems it had
Carbot1337
I mean early days of this was (2) Voodoo 2s with a SLI cable.
My rich friend had this as well as dedicated broadband for Quake 2 (rocket arena). In like 1999 West Virginia, unheard of.
atocnada
I retired my 2x RX480 crossfire rig in 2019(I fell for AMD’s marketing and felt like I had a GTX1080). You actually didn’t need cables for AMD cards.
The last game with actual SLI/XFire support was Watch Dogs 2. I have a list of games that worked with no microstutter and at least 40% uplift in performance. Some games got updated and stopped working with crossfire(Titanfall2). Sometimes to actually see an uplift, I’d have to use GeDoSaTos downscaling fix and downsample certain games.
Good fucking times also because I had a Onkyo 7.1 surround system and I remember those times fondly.
nvlink still good and use for hpc and server cloud gaming
Gallop67
Remember having or wanting a dedicated PhysX card?
sp3kter
Next ask us old heads about PhysX
warmseizuresalad
Those were the days. People be balling with 4x 11gb 1080tis
Kvazimods
High-end was a Quad processor and an Nvidia GeForce 8800 GT
Oni_K
I remember looking at SLI and going “wow, cool!” Then realizing it required two high ends cards, and got maybe 30% more frames than a single mid-range card. Yeah… Pass thanks.
DkoyOctopus
SLI baby!!
stormychef666
Man i had dual 7800 gtxs in SLI and i feel like they were obsolete in like a year. Technology was moving too fast for my wallet
RealCyberbearz
In the early rigs you had a 2D card and then like 2 Voodoo2 cards in SLI mode.. The memory was in megs..
aCatLunchbox
We always told our friends “Yeah, I’m thinking about getting a second card to run SLI/Crossfire” and we never did.
Available_Agency_117
Yeah. The industry stopped designing for it because if it were ever perfected it would allow people with two midrange cards to outperform everything on the market, and people with two low end cards to perform as well as high end cards.
clockrock3t
I had GTX 660s in SLI back in the day. I don’t remember having many issues with it. Of course I eventually sold them and switched to a single GTX 680 and my FPS shot way up. It was fun tinkering around with that stuff back in the day.
Single cards are much easier though, I don’t want SLI to come back lol
GildedMaw
I had an alienware m18x laptop with Dual 2GB GDDR5 AMD Radeon HD 6990M AMD CrossFireX back in the day. Thing was a monster at the time, devoured games like The Witcher 2 like it was nothing. Granted I think it would’ve been just fine with one card, but I thought why not go above and beyond.
crewchiefguy
Don’t forget it only actually worked on a couple of games.
Dylan_Is_Gay_lol
I crossfired two late 2000s Radeon cards in the early 2010s.
r/fuckimold
CoffeeComet01
Bro, my wallet gave me a divorce.
Aoirith
Didn’t work as well as intended and also it’s better to overprice one card instead of allowing 2 bridged GPU from previous generation to work as well as what you just announced. It could be improved though, I’m sure
Snaggle-Beast
Just bought a 7900xtx to finally retire my dual 1080tis SLI. It was so awesome when it worked.
Abahu
You can still double a 3090 for SLI for VR! Too bad no game supports that, though…
BiggerRedBeard
Lmao yes. I had an Alienware that worked this way.
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Is this a genuine question?
Yes it’s true and stfu I’m not old 😡
Nvidia dropped support for SLI only like 2 years ago or something…
Edit: 3 years ago
No.
High end was linking 4.
Double the ~~cards~~ cost for +10% performance!
Sorta.
SLI (scanline interlace) was a 3dFX feature of using 2 cards each one rendering half the vertical resolution (doing every other scanline hence the name), it had poor support and varied in success per title.
Nvidia (after publishing FUD that helped kill 3dFX) bought 3dFX’s assets as they went bankrupt and rebranded SLI (scalable link interface or some shit) and did a “everyother frame” style output, the idea being double the FPS.
It had almost no support and worked poorly in the games it did support. If it wasn’t battlefield or CoD you pretty much had one card doing nothing 99% of the time.
And if you ran a title that did support SLI you’d be greeted with insane micro stutter.
The people who are mad its a dead tech are the ones that don’t understand it.
2 Voodoo 2’s SLI baby!
Yes. High end today means overrpriced cards that can’t run current gen games at max settings without generating fake frames.
I had dual 8800 GTS 512mb cards. When Crysis came out, it was like peak PC hardware building time IMO. So much visual progress being made in gaming graphics back then, parts were not insanely expensive, it was fun discussing parts and builds on forums, and everyone had a common enemy (getting Crysis to run lol)
X4 Titan sli. That was high end.
It was called SLI and it resulted in far more than 10%, often 30-70% increase, but there were some games where there was little to no gain.
https://www.tweaktown.com/tweakipedia/74/recap-nvidia-geforce-gtx-980-sli-performance-4k/index.html
You know they gonna come back with this in one way or another when they run out of ideas to fleece the master race.
SLI good idea shit execution
I ran SLI on GTX 8800. Honestly I never felt it did much better than my friend who was running a single card. But it was still cool to show off at LAN parties through the clear plastic side of my cooler master scout.
Sounds good doesn’t work unfortunately
Nvidia sli? It’s 3dfx sli you damn kids
Genuine question why did we stop using sli because with modern tech couldn’t we get rid of the problems it had
I mean early days of this was (2) Voodoo 2s with a SLI cable.
My rich friend had this as well as dedicated broadband for Quake 2 (rocket arena). In like 1999 West Virginia, unheard of.
I retired my 2x RX480 crossfire rig in 2019(I fell for AMD’s marketing and felt like I had a GTX1080). You actually didn’t need cables for AMD cards.
The last game with actual SLI/XFire support was Watch Dogs 2. I have a list of games that worked with no microstutter and at least 40% uplift in performance. Some games got updated and stopped working with crossfire(Titanfall2). Sometimes to actually see an uplift, I’d have to use GeDoSaTos downscaling fix and downsample certain games.
Good fucking times also because I had a Onkyo 7.1 surround system and I remember those times fondly.
https://preview.redd.it/vlchhuznijtc1.jpeg?width=4000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=545a10c5193bad02bc77cd995c2ad77768f139d2
Heck ya! I miss my old Titans!
nvlink still good and use for hpc and server cloud gaming
Remember having or wanting a dedicated PhysX card?
Next ask us old heads about PhysX
Those were the days. People be balling with 4x 11gb 1080tis
High-end was a Quad processor and an Nvidia GeForce 8800 GT
I remember looking at SLI and going “wow, cool!” Then realizing it required two high ends cards, and got maybe 30% more frames than a single mid-range card. Yeah… Pass thanks.
SLI baby!!
Man i had dual 7800 gtxs in SLI and i feel like they were obsolete in like a year. Technology was moving too fast for my wallet
In the early rigs you had a 2D card and then like 2 Voodoo2 cards in SLI mode.. The memory was in megs..
We always told our friends “Yeah, I’m thinking about getting a second card to run SLI/Crossfire” and we never did.
Yeah. The industry stopped designing for it because if it were ever perfected it would allow people with two midrange cards to outperform everything on the market, and people with two low end cards to perform as well as high end cards.
I had GTX 660s in SLI back in the day. I don’t remember having many issues with it. Of course I eventually sold them and switched to a single GTX 680 and my FPS shot way up. It was fun tinkering around with that stuff back in the day.
Single cards are much easier though, I don’t want SLI to come back lol
I had an alienware m18x laptop with Dual 2GB GDDR5 AMD Radeon HD 6990M AMD CrossFireX back in the day. Thing was a monster at the time, devoured games like The Witcher 2 like it was nothing. Granted I think it would’ve been just fine with one card, but I thought why not go above and beyond.
Don’t forget it only actually worked on a couple of games.
I crossfired two late 2000s Radeon cards in the early 2010s.
r/fuckimold
Bro, my wallet gave me a divorce.
Didn’t work as well as intended and also it’s better to overprice one card instead of allowing 2 bridged GPU from previous generation to work as well as what you just announced. It could be improved though, I’m sure
Just bought a 7900xtx to finally retire my dual 1080tis SLI. It was so awesome when it worked.
You can still double a 3090 for SLI for VR! Too bad no game supports that, though…
Lmao yes. I had an Alienware that worked this way.