SLI is really not Dead if you Have a SLI rig

freeagent · Feb 28, 2024

Vaseline vision haha. For me SLI was good for benching at the end, pretty much it. I ran SLI since nvidia gave the ok to run different brands, so for me BFG and PNY 6600GT made COD rock over 500fps lol. My last few boards have been compatible, but I do not see myself running SLI ever again. I was hitting 1000w peaks on GTX 580s lol.. my poor 850s.

droopyRO · Feb 29, 2024

Ferrum Master said:
vaseline vision TAA

what do you mean by it, that the image leaves a trail like a blur when you move the mouse, or something else ?

Dragam1337 · Feb 29, 2024

droopyRO said:
what do you mean by it, that the image leaves a trail like a blur when you move the mouse, or something else ?

Taa can look very blurry at low resolution (1080p and below) like the entire screen was smeared in vaseline, which is true.

Solution is to either use higher res (which is always preferable anyways) or sharpening.

Turning off taa is not a solution in rdr2 imo - looks god awful.

Lycanwolfen · 2025-02-21T18:29:38+0000

Upon futher testing I found yep it's dead in drivers now. I found older drivers it works but the latest ones Nvidia has disabled all SLI performance.

Sad todays games really need this technology for the RTX functions to work without DLSS.

Seems the modern days of gaming is more money. Now running two TITAN XP's but yep tested it on some of the newer games and with SLI on got less FPS vs it off.

As people have seen with the 5090 the power is just insane, melting power cords, Lack luster performance in native gaming without DLSS.

Nvidia really should rethink there whole gaming products maybe use less on one big chip and maybe something like a dual GPU card with nvlink on the same card with smaller less power hungry chips. We shall see when the 6090's come out will nvidia say card draws 1000 watts of power. Or will they re think what they are doing and start to think less power again.

Oh well the TITAN XP's at least look so cool in my case. At least some older games take full advantage of it. and at 4k 250 fps is just insane performance.

Going to wait till some prices come down to the reg price then might just bite the bullet and get a 5090 founders.

mxthunder · 2025-02-21T18:47:58+0000

That SLi bridge look sick! I ran SLi Titan XPs for a while. tons of fun.
It does suck they killed it off in the drivers. with my Z490 mobo, the newest drivers for my older cards like Tesla and Fermi dont recognize the chipset as being SLI capabable (too new) so I have to stick to Z77 and Z87 chipset mobos to play with older cards in SLI.

R-T-B · 2025-02-21T18:53:59+0000

I'll agree killing it off in newer drivers is kind of a dick move, but I disagree that SLI really was ever going to be longterm viable with the way graphics APIs went. DX12 and vulkan basically killed it.

bitsandboots · 2025-02-21T18:58:39+0000

I recall SLI going away around the time VR came out, in which VR was never intended to be compatible with SLI. Perhaps a concern over microstutter causing motion sickness.
It'd be a stretch to say that VR killed SLI but, certainly at this time there's no reason to return to SLI.
You can use multi-GPU for productivity. You don't need it for gaming and its more trouble than its worth for gaming. I've been there and will not do it again.

DemonicRyzen666 · 2025-02-21T22:28:07+0000

Lycanwolfen said:
Upon futher testing I found yep it's dead in drivers now. I found older drivers it works but the latest ones Nvidia has disabled all SLI performance.

Sad todays games really need this technology for the RTX functions to work without DLSS.

Seems the modern days of gaming is more money. Now running two TITAN XP's but yep tested it on some of the newer games and with SLI on got less FPS vs it off.

As people have seen with the 5090 the power is just insane, melting power cords, Lack luster performance in native gaming without DLSS.

Nvidia really should rethink there whole gaming products maybe use less on one big chip and maybe something like a dual GPU card with nvlink on the same card with smaller less power hungry chips. We shall see when the 6090's come out will nvidia say card draws 1000 watts of power. Or will they re think what they are doing and start to think less power again.

Oh well the TITAN XP's at least look so cool in my case. At least some older games take full advantage of it. and at 4k 250 fps is just insane performance.

Going to wait till some prices come down to the reg price then might just bite the bullet and get a 5090 founders.

Could you try Chernobylite on those cards, if you can?

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