Tuesday, August 1st 2017
AMD Giving Up on CrossFire with RX Vega
AMD is reportedly scaling down efforts on its end to support and promote multi-GPU technologies such as CrossFire, and not in favor of open-standards such as DirectX 12 native multi-GPU, either. Speaking to GamersNexus, an AMD representative confirmed that while the new Radeon RX Vega family of graphics cards support CrossFire, the company may not allocate as many resources as it used to with older GPU launches, in promoting or supporting it.
This is keeping up with trends in the industry moving away from multi-GPU configurations, and aligns with NVIDIA's decision to dial-down investment in SLI. This also more or less confirms that AMD won't build a Radeon RX series consumer graphics product based on two "Vega 10" ASICs. At best, one can expect dual-GPU cards for the professional or GPU-compute markets, such as the Radeon Pro or Radeon Instinct brands.
Source:
GamersNexus.net
This is keeping up with trends in the industry moving away from multi-GPU configurations, and aligns with NVIDIA's decision to dial-down investment in SLI. This also more or less confirms that AMD won't build a Radeon RX series consumer graphics product based on two "Vega 10" ASICs. At best, one can expect dual-GPU cards for the professional or GPU-compute markets, such as the Radeon Pro or Radeon Instinct brands.
30 Comments on AMD Giving Up on CrossFire with RX Vega
So what would happen if, hypothetically, Vega has IF capable end points to its PCIe? Can for example the Vega and an AMD CPU a) enable IF over the PCIe connect immediately giving the aforementioned bandwidth increase and then possible b) becuse the GPU is now hooked into the IF "switch" of the CPU, all the cores and RAM now have direct access to the GPU and vice versa? No imagine c) more GPUs are connected the same way and all of them can see each other's HBCC over the IF the same way the CCXes of the CPU communicate ... or something like that.
I can see the new APUs doing this but they can be hard set to IF as no PCIe is needed.
When I first got them they are an absolute nightmare, there's no other way to describe it. But after complaining directly to one of the guys high up in AMD I was given an unreleased driver that fixed the issues I had and was shortly released to the public.
Since then they had released driver after driver that improved no end of things.
I'm now running 2 x 1080Ti's after I expected Vega to be released in January. Depending on what we get in future I will always run the best GPU system that is available, and if it's not crossfire or SLI then it can only mean that we are going to be looking at some majorly powerful GPU's coming out!