Both multi GPU configurations are dying a slow death.Crossfire is dead, they call it 'mGPU' now. And it's still crap
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Damn, thwarted!.
its obvious, hes trying to drive the prices down to buy another for crossfire
Crossfire is dead, they call it 'mGPU' now. And it's still crap
Yeah. Some people also still going on about SLI which is also pretty much dead. Probably the type that enjoys playing games with the fps counter on showing a high number. They concentrate on the fps counter so much that they miss all the micro stutter
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Yup, first Crossfire hit a wall and I switched to dual 980's from my 295x2 and then SLi bit the dust about 18 months later. Guess the users are so few that it's not worth bothering with, and that just feeds into itself. Single powerful GPU + Gsync/Freesync is the way forward.
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For it to work properly, there needs to be some layer of abstraction. Work assigned to gpus by a hardware controller and all appearing as one gpu to the OS.
Aka DX12.
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Nope, DX12 requires devs to implement specific code for multi GPU.
Multi gpus would need to appear as one virtual gpu in the os and be treated as such by software.
edit: like hardware raid for storage.
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not realy as back in the DX11 days and that ear of game engines (say 2015-16 and before) it sided on the graphics vendor to do most of the leg work.
Like anything in DX12 land that shifted to the developer, so a lot of the work the driver had to do the game has to do now, its big chunk of the reason why there not been the shift to DX12/Vulkan like there was from DX9 to 11, the time/cost/benefit ratio is just nto there in a lot of cases.
and with Multi GPU being a low down priority for a lot of developers and changes in rendering engines methods kinda hit the final nail in the coffin. The death of Multi gpu is why I switched from 980ti SLI to a single 1080ti.
I can only think of 2 games that did DX12 Multi GPU in any meaningful way, GOW4 and Deus Ex MKD