Small computer conspiracy
Nvidia killed sli on purpose because it made people not buy either newer gpus or higher end ones.
Since sli gpus basically let you use 2 cheaper gpus for roughly the same performance of a higher end one, people would’ve bought those instead of a higher end card at the time. Or instead of buying a whole newer gen gpu they would just add another same older model in sli than upgrade.
Nvidia prolly saw this and went, “welp might as well not let them have good deals!” And slowly killed off sli development so devs wouldn’t have game support it, thus having no need to use multgpus anymore.
Also, they never made the connector faster past 2GB/s, which is absolutely slow as balls, yeah when it came out it was hella fast roughly pcie 1x8 (GeForce 6) but by like when pcie 3 gpus came out gpus needed much more data bandwidth to feed to properly work on larger workloads likely causing big bottlenecks.
This also made things like micro stuttering (which people overtime noticed) more prevalent due to previous bandwidth bottleneck. It can also be shown in nvlink, which was 50GB/s when released, 25-50 times faster than sli bridges, and they didn’t implement it in consumer cards as far as I know. Nvidia developed a faster better way for workload splitting for graphics cards, they just didn’t want to give it to us for previously said economic reasons. They also still use nvlink in their workstation and server applications, it’s not that they can’t make a faster interface it’s that they won’t give it to us.
Bye the time it perma-died with development completely ending by rtx 20, no one cared, because they planned this since they noticed how good of a deal it was and therefore bad for business. Also probably the reason they limited it to high end cards, so people wouldn’t be able to afford a “good deal” on multi-card setups and they would sell more higher end cards.
I would say the same for crossfire, but like it died because of the death of sli more than anything in my opinion. And the fact that they used pcie lanes later on, I personally blame shat driver support (amd’s specialty and poor optimization not out of malice, more like incompetence)
So basically, nvidia literally killed off one of the best technologies in history for the consumer because they lost a few bucks over fancy unaffordable graphics cards and got butthurt over it. Actually since they don’t care much about us anymore maybe they’ll bring it back?
This was more like a rant than a whole thought out essay or sum. Any criticism or response welcome! :3
