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Glad to hear they clarified it, but does it mean that 4 cards cannot be used for non-SLI loads like machine learning? I hope not.
by cm3 10y ago
Glad to hear they clarified it, but does it mean that 4 cards cannot be used for non-SLI loads like machine learning? I hope not.
- jsheard 10y agoNon-SLI setups are unaffected, you can still use as many cards as will fit in your motherboard. They deprecated 3/4-way SLI due to the difficulty of implicitly splitting the workload in the driver, but with non-SLI setups for CUDA/OpenCL the load-splitting is done explicitly by the application so it's not their problem.
- cm3 10y agoDoes that mean SLI/Crossfire is not required when using Vulkan or DX12 (or Metal) and applications can saturate all cards if they want to? Isn't there a delay if you don't use Nvidia's bridge connector?
- jsheard 10y agoYep, it's possible to do multi-GPU without SLI/CF in DX12 _if_ the game engine goes out of its way handle all the workloads explicitly. http://www.anandtech.com/show/10067/ashes-of-the-singularity-revisited-beta/4 http://www.anandtech.com/show/10067/ashes-of-the-singularity... I don't expect many developers to actually use this functionality though - it's a lot of work to only benefit a tiny minority of users.