Are dual graphics card setups finally at an end?
It has been apparent for some time: the glory days of PC setups with two or more graphics cards in a network are over. A statement from AMD CEO Lisa Su suggests that they will soon come to an end.
It's definitely not new. Nvidia only supports SLI, as the company calls the technology of multiple graphics cards in a network, for higher-end graphics cards. AMD's equivalent Crossfire is only supported in a handful of DX12 and Vulkan games with the new Navi cards.
At the Hot Chips Conference, AMD CEO Lisa Su has now announced that Crossfire is not the company's focus: "To be honest, the software is going faster than the hardware, I would say that Crossfire isn't a significant focus," Lisa Su is quoted as saying by Techpowerup. Su's statement suggests that AMD's focus is on optimised drivers for single-GPU setups. The times when consumers bought a graphics card at the launch of a new graphics card generation in order to upgrade it later with another one definitely seem to be over. AMD even went so far as to offer multiple GPU support for different graphics card models.
So the support of multi-GPU setups has also left much to be desired from game manufacturers in recent years. The advantage of multiple graphics cards in one system was small and mainly of interest to overclockers and benchmarkers. <p
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