Thursday, September 3rd 2020

NVIDIA Reserves NVLink Support For The RTX 3090

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NVIDIA has issued another major blow to multi-GPU gaming with their recent RTX 30 series announcement. The only card to support NVLink SLI in this latest generation will be the RTX 3090 and will require a new NVLink bridge which costs 79 USD. NVIDIA reserved NVLink support for the RTX 2070 Super, RTX 2080 Super, RTX 2080, and RTX 2080 Ti in their Turing range of graphics cards. The AMD CrossFire multi-GPU solution has also become irrelevant after support for it was dropped with RDNA. Developer support for the feature has also declined due to the high cost of implementation, small user base, and often poor performance improvements. With the NVIDIA RTX 3090 set to retail for 1499 USD, the cost of a multi-GPU setup will exceed 3079 USD reserving the feature for only the wealthiest of gamers.
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81 Comments on NVIDIA Reserves NVLink Support For The RTX 3090

#76
the54thvoid
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Next financial insult I read, I'm giving a load of points. Stop implying those who buy expensive cards are snobs, and conversely, stop suggesting those who won't don't earn enough.

These sort of comments are pathetic.
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#77
GhostRyder
doscapeYou meant BF1, because BFV doesn't support multi-gpus
You are correct, meant to say BF1.

I think multi-GPU is mostly dead at this point and I dont see it coming back anytime soon unless a serious solution comes out that not only works well but does not require a bunch of developers to sink time and money to support it (I am aware of the DX12 and some solutions out there but they are not great solutions currently).
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kapone32
GhostRyderAs someone who used to run multi-gpu setups (Recently 3 R9 290X's) and went to a single GPU I don't see this as a problem anymore. Honestly the support has become garbage and no-one really wants to implement it in a meaningful way especially recently so it makes sense reserving this for the highest end semi-pro card.

I would have a different opinion if I saw developers and games that were supporting multi-GPU in a significant way like they were back back around 2013 (Meaning at least alot of the AAA games having some support) but recently I cant even name a game off the top of my head other than BFV that had any support (And even then it was not great).
Jedi Fallen Order
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kapone32Jedi Fallen Order
Yep that game ran great on my SLI setup. 4K / 60fps nice and smooth. Also, and I know they're not same year, but I just recently played through all the Tomb Raider games for the first time - all of them ran fantastic with multi gpu support.

I'll be curious to see if Cyberpunk 2077 supports it. If so, that'll give me some hope. CDPR is generally pretty consumer friendly so I'd like to think they'll implement it, especially given how demanding it will likely be.
#80
GhostRyder
kapone32Jedi Fallen Order
Oh, did not know that.
Razrback16Yep that game ran great on my SLI setup. 4K / 60fps nice and smooth. Also, and I know they're not same year, but I just recently played through all the Tomb Raider games for the first time - all of them ran fantastic with multi gpu support.

I'll be curious to see if Cyberpunk 2077 supports it. If so, that'll give me some hope. CDPR is generally pretty consumer friendly so I'd like to think they'll implement it, especially given how demanding it will likely be.
But its not enough games to really warrant multi-GPU setups anymore unfortunatly.
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#81
sliderider
They've been moving multi-GPU upmarket one step at a time for a while now. They will either leave it where is now, on the Titan class cards only, or get rid of it entirely from consumer cards. Quadros will probably still be able to use NVLink, though, no matter what because there will always be corporate users and other professionals who will require the power of multiple GPU's.
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