Nvidia will not be supporting 3-Way or 4-way SLI in games with GTX 1000 series GPUs

The first thing that comes to mind is that Nvidia could reserve this feature (3-/4-way SLI) probably for their new big-Pascal GPUs (1080Ti/Pascal-Titan). Just to have something extra here to lure people into upgrading from 1080 again.

Anyway, if this "2-way SLI only" for the GTX 1070/1080 stays, then benchmark vendors should also invalidate 3- and 4-way SLI scores from these GTX 1070/1080 cards or block usage of more than two of them as this is no longer a valid config anymore.
 
Breit said:
The first thing that comes to mind is that Nvidia could reserve this feature (3-/4-way SLI) probably for their new big-Pascal GPUs (1080Ti/Pascal-Titan). Just to have something extra here to lure people into upgrading from 1080 again.

Anyway, if this "2-way SLI only" for the GTX 1070/1080 stays, then benchmark vendors should also invalidate 3- and 4-way SLI scores from these GTX 1070/1080 cards or block usage of more than two of them as this is no longer a valid config anymore.
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They don't have relevance in games, doesn't mean they don't have relevance at all. Brilliant business strategy to lure in that very small percentage of people who think that two 1080s simply don't offer enough performance and then buy 4 Titans for like 4 grand, that's going to make them billions.
Why the hell do people try to badmouth companies with such poorly thought through theories? They are doing something and i am not sure why, there must be an evil agenda!
 
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NeverBackDown said:
Wonder if they are doing this because of limitations of Gen 3? Waiting on Gen 4 or a new standard for GPUS thank allows more bandwidth?? Hence the need for a higher bandwidth Bridge?
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IMO I think it's purely down to the driver dev costs as 2 way is pretty easy to write whereas anything over 2 starts to introduce more and more micro stutter, GPU usage issues etc.... just isn't worth it as the user base is in the extreme minority anyway.
 
Dicehunter said:
IMO I think it's purely down to the driver dev costs as 2 way is pretty easy to write whereas anything over 2 starts to introduce more and more micro stutter, GPU usage issues etc.... just isn't worth it as the user base is in the extreme minority anyway.
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Plus one on that. It's a development money sink and even if done right there aren't many people who would be willing to run 3 or 4 GPUs. Not nearly as juicy as the other theories, but certainly more reasonable.

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Why is plus one blacklisted?
 
SeekaX said:
They don't have relevance in games, doesn't mean they don't have relevance at all. Brilliant business strategy to lure in that very small percentage of people who think that two 1080s simply don't offer enough performance and then buy 4 Titans for like 4 grand, that's going to make them billions.
Why the hell do people try to badmouth companies with such poorly thought through theories? They are doing something and i am not sure why, there must be an evil agenda!
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I don't have a problem with their decision to only allow/support 2-way SLI, but I do have a problem with their way of handling the situation. They could've said right from the beginning that only 2-way SLI is allowed this time and everything would've been fine.
But all that nonsense with "enthusiast keys" and stuff and 3-/4-way only for (gaming-)benchmarks is just rediculous. I mean no one needs to know how fast a 4-way SLI system could've been in a gaming scenario (3Dmark, Unigine) when no one can actually game with 4 cards. :cool:

Besides traditional gaming, I must say I indeed do see a use case for multi-GPU setups and that is VR. Everyone is hyped about VR, everyone agrees that you need higher resolutions and a lot more details and last but not least everyone agrees that you need higher refresh rates to sustain the illusion of VR. So there can never be enough GPU horsepower to deliver that, at least with todays GPUs that even struggle to render games in plain 4K with details maxed at acceptable framerates. Nevertheless Nvidia is constantly promoting its VR capabilities on this new generation of GPUs, so they are interested in this market, but even Jen-Hsun Huang admits that the immersion problems of VR will only be solved in about 20 years from now. One of the reasons for that claim is the GPU performance (or the lack thereof). :huh:
 
Breit said:
I don't have a problem with their decision to only allow/support 2-way SLI, but I do have a problem with their way of handling the situation. They could've said right from the beginning that only 2-way SLI is allowed this time and everything would've been fine.
But all that nonsense with "enthusiast keys" and stuff and 3-/4-way only for (gaming-)benchmarks is just rediculous. I mean no one needs to know how fast a 4-way SLI system could've been in a gaming scenario (3Dmark, Unigine) when no one can actually game with 4 cards. :cool:
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Weren't the enthusiast keys meant for professional users? I suppose they could've clarified that there would be no gaming support at all a bit earlier, but i don't see any harm done either.

Besides traditional gaming, I must say I indeed do see a use case for multi-GPU setups and that is VR. Everyone is hyped about VR, everyone agrees that you need higher resolutions and a lot more details and last but not least everyone agrees that you need higher refresh rates to sustain the illusion of VR. So there can never be enough GPU horsepower to deliver that, at least with todays GPUs that even struggle to render games in plain 4K with details maxed at acceptable framerates. Nevertheless Nvidia is constantly promoting its VR capabilities on this new generation of GPUs, so they are interested in this market, but even Jen-Hsun Huang admits that the immersion problems of VR will only be solved in about 20 years from now. One of the reasons for that claim is the GPU performance (or the lack thereof). :huh:
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For VR to become successful it needs to become affordable most of all, not many people would be willing to spend upwards of 3 grand on GPUs and a VR headset even if it means higher refreshrates. Quad SLi for VR is still catering to a very small target audience, i doubt it would pay off.
 
Dicehunter said:
Ahhhh yeah makes sense, It was being used excessively a while back ^_^
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Not so much a case of not liking, as we had a few people post count boosting by just 'herp plus one this' instead of actually contributing and it was getting a bit too widespread. We're here for conversation not plus one post padding and ego stroking.
 
SuB said:
Not so much a case of not liking, as we had a few people post count boosting by just 'herp plus one this' instead of actually contributing and it was getting a bit too widespread. We're here for conversation not plus one post padding and ego stroking.
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Plus one.



Jokes aside, wouldn't handing out warnings be more effective? Circumventing a blacklisted word is quite easy.
 
Hi

I think there is another point that needs to be made. There is a lot of draw to smaller iTX type systems from what I see. I love my Caselabs X2M rig. My objective is to get the most powerful single GPU I can at the moment. That's why I have been trying to get a 1080 and Block since they went on the market. So far no luck, and I refuse to pay the Ebay/Amazon scalper scum prices.

As soon as I can I will get a 1080 to replace my 980 (One time I had the best card when I bought it)

--Rick--
 
SeekaX said:
Plus one.



Jokes aside, wouldn't handing out warnings be more effective? Circumventing a blacklisted word is quite easy.
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Tried it, didn't work. It was added to the filter so we could back-run it and prune it out of a load of places to tidy up as well.

It's done now, and it's a closed issue.
 
SeekaX said:
Plus one.



Jokes aside, wouldn't handing out warnings be more effective? Circumventing a blacklisted word is quite easy.
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It's a real PITA handing out warnings for every forum rule break, plus we have a fantastic community that lead by example. :cool:
 
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