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Did SLI and Crossfire fail because they had to work with two cards?

Power certainly was an issue, I had to buy a 1300W PSU for my 295x2 quadfire then upgrade to a 1600W as even 1300W wasn't enough. I'm still a little tempted to pick up a pair of 2080TIs as the games I actually spend time playing support SLI e.g. RDR2, GTA5, AC:Black Flag or don't but don't really need it e.g. World of Warships. I'd still want any Mobo I buy to support it just in case. Some games like MS:FS2020 would benefit enormously from it as even the best single cards are simply incapable of running it at the frames I'd want (I use Track IR so fps does need to be decent or it looks very choppy when panning head).
 
pugheaven said:
Yep I had quadfire 6990's as well, that was a beastly system to... I went from the 6990's to the 295x2's actually myself so we followed a similar path. I only changed this year to a 5700XT as was about time I upgraded system etc... yep, would love AMD to sneakily role out another dual card, would be awesome, just for the hell of it hahaha but somehow make it work... but lets be honest, it's not going to happen. good memories though have to admit, just seeing the power consumption and your PC absolute loaded with tech... my PC looks properly empty now... TBH if Big Navi is cool I might just buy two of them and fold 24/7 on one of them and use the otehr for gaming, I think I could still do that no problem? At least I'd have a nice looking water loop etc, would look brill with two cards again!
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+1 Happy Days...love to see them return.
 
I think for it to work in the future it would need an open multi card standard built into Windows. So instead of having specific game drivers for support out of the box all 3d games would support it. AMD, Nvidia and Intel cards could release multi card compatible cards that supported this standard.
 
For me, SLI was excellent. Never had micro-stutter and it worked with everything I used to play and found worth playing. I stopped at 980ti SLI as I had a child and couldn't afford the PC arms race anymore. Witcher 3, GTA, COD etc all benefitted massively and paired with a ROG Swift it was absolute gaming heaven.
 
Joe Jones said:
I remember my first SLI....a pair of 3dfx Voodoo2's, instant double performance....good days!
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Same here! I also got mine for free so blistering performance for absolutely nothing it was my gateway drug for Video card addiction and unfortunately they haven't been free for me for nearly 20 years.
 
jennidc said:
I think for it to work in the future it would need an open multi card standard built into Windows. So instead of having specific game drivers for support out of the box all 3d games would support it. AMD, Nvidia and Intel cards could release multi card compatible cards that supported this standard.
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100%, if windows just did something to make it work, how fantastic woudl that be... imagine two 3080's hahahaha... or two big navis... man... now that would be 4k ultra settings gaming at 150fps + minimum in pretty much all games lol
 
I am running RTX 2080Ti Nvlink SLi and 2x RTX 2080 Nvlink SLi, and I've been running SLi permanently in all my rigs since 2006 (I also ran 3dfx Voodoo2 SLi), and the issues I've had through almost 14years can be counted on one hand. I still love my two card setups and I adored my 3 way SLi setup from GTX280 to GTX 980Ti.
I am sad that SLi is basically dead, but I understand the perspective from where Nvidia is coming from. However I had hope RTX 3080 would do Nvlink.
 
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