nVidia licenses SLi to AMD

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Didn't see this anywhere and thought motherboards would be the best place - nVidia announce licensing of SLi to AMD. Quote from the blog:

'So today, we are pleased to announce that SLI has been licensed to the world’s leading motherboard companies for integration onto their upcoming motherboards featuring AMD’s 990FX, 990X and 970 chipsets. ASUS, Gigabyte, ASRock, and MSI are among the first motherboard manufacturers to offer this new capability, with more coming on board shortly. '

Source:

http://blogs.nvidia.com/2011/04/you-asked-for-it-you-got-it-sli-for-amd/

Good timing for potential Bulldozer owners? Will this sway anyone toward AMD for their next CPU?
 
Looks interesting, I assume it's going to be Crossfire or SLI compatible on the same board.
 
It makes sense as without support for SLI it pushes Nvidia users towards Intel, rather than AMD users towards their GPU's.
 
does this mean the sli compatible boards will be more expensive?

wasnt there some hack to enable sli on a lot of boards anyway?
 
Wouldnt it be best for motherboard makers to say no to nVidias sli tax ? Will produce more cost effective boards and if nVidia want to compete with dual gpus, they will allow all motherboard makers to allow it at no cost or make nVidia pay for the privalage of having dual gpu support instead of the consumer.
 
chaparral said:
Most likely

as just about every P67 board that supports SLI are more expensive :(
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To be fair, the boards that only support Crossfire are generally x16, x4 anyway, which is pretty pointless for multi-GPU. Any of the boards that do x8, x8 (besides the Sapphire I think) also do SLI.

This is a great move by AMD and Nvidia, as it should be able to net both of them more business, to the cost of Intel. It'll just be like the X58 boards, in that they all support SLI and Crossfire (besides the overpriced Sapphire), and yet are not overpriced because of it. I guess we'll have to wait and see, but I can't see it making the motherboards that much more expensive than before, and being able to go either way is surely a plus.
 
People tend to choose CPU and GPU and only then select a compatible motherboard. Without sli they considerably reduce their potential Market.
 
This a good thing, I chose a board for it being sli/crossfire compatible as the cheaper p67 boards tend to be either a single pcie slot or crossfire. Should save people money if they join up to make dual gfx compatible boards
 
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