A Farewell To SLI

How did SLI and Crossfire get started, and are we seeing the technology come to an end?

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[slimj]

1:51 Putting in a screen tearing effect when talking about how good early SLI was at rendering was a nice touch, and that's what I appreciates about you.

[marouanejoueurdo]

1:51 got me checking if youtube has v sync

[TimmyJoePCTech]

Death to SLI, thumbnail features 2 radeon cards :p

[TheRealGuywithoutaMustache]

"Looks aren't everything"

I dunno man, your mustache is really alluring.

[karlc]

multi gpu during the early 2010s were cool af. I remember dreaming hard to have one of those setups. good times.

[antenna_prolly]

"a farewell to SLI"
99.9% of viewers never even said "hello"

[CSGhostAnimation]

Whenever I build computers for people, I usually have to fight my friends because they argue for more expensive motherboards, and I keep telling them that multi-card setups are a dumb idea. My friends continue to insist on 850W PSUs and the most expensive ROG motherboards and end up spending more on the motherboard than the CPU, because the motherboard has excellent multi-GPU support. Only one of my friends has done SLI for more than a year. I straight up can't deal with it. I just watched someone get a $200 CPU and a $320 motherboard on a $1400 setup. Am I crazy? Are their builds imbalanced? A $1400 setup can definitely fit a Ryzen 7, it shouldn't have been a Ryzen 5.

[qizhou]

me watching this while starting a master thesis on Multi-GPU systems, I need a beer...

[morgan]

Riley + Scan-Line Interleave + Scalable Link Interface .... This video is just too damn sexy

[neliaironwood]

So basically, SLI failed to scale in terms of future technology, and it wasn't that effective compared to Nvidia's NVLink's duality system. SLI was basically master-and-slave, and NVLink was basically dual, which means both GPUs combine in terms of power. But NVLink takes a lot more data than SLI, which makes it ineffective for gaming GPUs and more for like workstation GPUs with ECC RAM and are used in render farms/servers that need to run 24 hours a day.

[spitfire]

I was so impressed with my Crossfire 5850 setup back in the day. It literally doubled my Battlefield 3 performance after I worked out the weird little issues. Little did I know I was at the peak of an era. RIP

1:53 that's the cleverest thing I've ever seen on Techquickie.

[jake_dev]

Just got the pulseway ad with linus in it lol

[ewozniak]

Looks like someone pepper-sprayed Riley's eyes just before the video lol

[TheMxChannel]

Is Riley oke? Around he's eyes is pretty red... :(

[stefensmith]

We need multi gpu support now more than ever. It was NEVER about buying two brand new cards and then complaining about it not being double the performance... that narrative got skewed over the years. For most of us it was about getting the best card you could at the time and then when you could upgrade you could choose a brand new single card or buy another one of the same model you have for a lot cheaper than new and have faster performance. We always only expected 35% more witth the second card. Compare that with the usual 20-25% uplift from the previous gen at that time and you had a real choice as a budget gamer.

[WarriorsPhoto]

I used to use multiple GPUs in my editing rigs. Now I find one powerful card and several fast cores do the job just fine. I do like to mix an iGPU and a dGPU though. As this gives great performance with the iGPU doing a lot encoding/decoding of files. (:
Great video and glad you all keep making these.

[skyvenrazgriz]

Did he got tear gased before filming ?

[AgentLokVokun]

1:58 - He looks liek he's been up for the last 3 months taking care of a baby...

[kingZro]

“Yes, this is the voice of Linus (and also the face of Linus)”