2686

Nvidia is just really trying to gain more “fans” aren’t they? You can’t even go to a deal site anymore for any Nvidia card and not see the anger.

2687

What is the draw of SLI, anyway? Per all accounts it’s what, 15% better framerate but you’re paying 100% more for a second graphics card. How does it not make more sense to just buy a better single card?

2688

I don’t think there is much draw anymore really, so few games work well with SLI, its more headache than anything.

2689

Back in the Voodoo 2 days, SLI was the shit.

2690

Will it support nvlink instead?

2691

Isn’t SLI and NVLink the same thing? Just a new fancy name?

2692

So apparently my 2080Ti preorder is now shipping October 5th. I wonder if something was wrong with the first batch of FE cards.

2693

But it’s ray tracing

2694

Not quite.

NVLink is more capable than SLI.

Nice blog about the NVlink interconnect technology:

2695

I think the theory is that if you bought a high end card (like a 980ti) many years ago you could (in theory) get a good performance boost today by buying buy a 980ti for $200 or so on an EVGA b-stock sale (or a used one).

2696

Looking at how much an nvlink bridge costs ($600) it makes sense that the 2070 doesn’t have support.

2697

Lolwut! There is no way they extend that pricing to thier consumer range of cards, right? The RTX must use a ‘different’ cough bridge better priced for the consumer segment, surely?

2698

Not sure there is a consumer segment that would link 2 $1200 cards.

2699

There is, it’s called the e-peen segment. Mostly seen around hardware forums, surrounded by benchmark graphs.

2700

Yeah, this pretty much. People for whom money is no object and want to biggest, most awesome pc they can get. It’s main target initially anyways was the quadro line, where you are spending thousands on a card.

2701

If you’re going to spend 13k on a PC, what’s another 600 dollars? They don’t call them Dream Machines for nothing,except for some it’s a reality not a dream.

2702

Am I missing something? The nvlink bridge is $80 on Nvidia’s site.

2703

You’re right for the 2080 cards it looks like they have an $80 version. They are just gouging the quadro buyers for the $599.

2704

That makes more sense. Most likely the $600 version has much higher bandwidth, which would be required for compute heavy workloads.

2705

There’s a massive gulf between consumer and professional markets, so that’s not surprising in the least.