Nvidia halts future support for three- and four-way SLI setups

Stefan Mileschin · 14th June 2016, 13:46

Fans of extreme graphics setups, get your handkerchiefs ready. Nvidia is largely killing off its in-house support efforts for three- and four-way SLI. First, some background. During its Pascal announcement, Nvidia unveiled a new SLI HB (for "high-bandwidth") bridge that would be required for optimal GeForce GTX 1080 SLI performance at high resolutions. Later, in its GeForce GTX 1080 whitepaper, the company advised that two-way SLI would be the default supported multi-GPU configuration, and that three- or four-way SLI would require signing up for an "Enthusiast Key" that would need to be loaded into a GTX 1080 somehow.

That website never materialized, and now Nvidia appears to be dropping three- and four-way SLI support from future SLI profiles altogether. In a statement to PC Perspective ...

http://techreport.com/news/30257/nvi...way-sli-setups

14th June 2016, 13:46	#1
Stefan Mileschin [M] Reviewer Join Date: May 2010 Location: Romania Posts: 153,541	Nvidia halts future support for three- and four-way SLI setups Fans of extreme graphics setups, get your handkerchiefs ready. Nvidia is largely killing off its in-house support efforts for three- and four-way SLI. First, some background. During its Pascal announcement, Nvidia unveiled a new SLI HB (for "high-bandwidth") bridge that would be required for optimal GeForce GTX 1080 SLI performance at high resolutions. Later, in its GeForce GTX 1080 whitepaper, the company advised that two-way SLI would be the default supported multi-GPU configuration, and that three- or four-way SLI would require signing up for an "Enthusiast Key" that would need to be loaded into a GTX 1080 somehow. That website never materialized, and now Nvidia appears to be dropping three- and four-way SLI support from future SLI profiles altogether. In a statement to PC Perspective ... http://techreport.com/news/30257/nvi...way-sli-setups

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