GTX 1050 SLI? Maybe?

[SoloRaptonic]

Hey guys, I just recently went to micro center to buy an MSI GTX 1050 for my girlfriend's rig. The card works great but a feature on the back of the box caught me off guard. It states "multi GPU support" and it shows a small picture of 2 next to each other with no SLI/ crossfire cable. Could this possibly be hidden SLI or is it just stating it can work with other graphics cards side by side. I can't find the link but I saw someone run an Rx 480 with a GTX 1080. Thanks for any help

 

[othertomperson]

Some Dx12 games allow multi-GPU without SLI.

[MidnightBanshi]

There is no SLI for the 1050, unfortunately.

[Dang3r D3bbi3]

It says on the Nvidia website for the 1050 that it doesnt support SLI 

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/products/10series/geforce-gtx-1050/

Go down to specs and click on full specs

 

Also yes I believe sometimes you can use two different cards without SLI

[Princess Luna]

1 hour ago, MidnightBanshi said:

There is no SLI for the 1050, unfortunately.

More like fortunately, will make people stop losing their money SLI'ing low end cards thinking it will be worth it but ending up with nothing but bugs and poor support. Sure there a few sometimes exceptions but when building/upgrading the gold rule always is try going the highest single GPU you can...

[Biggerboot]

No SLI support, and even if there was it's not worth it for something that low end.  However, you can run just about any multiple gpu configuration for individual tasks like rendering, folding, and mining.

[AlTech]

10 hours ago, SoloRaptonic said:

Hey guys, I just recently went to micro center to buy an MSI GTX 1050 for my girlfriend's rig. The card works great but a feature on the back of the box caught me off guard. It states "multi GPU support" and it shows a small picture of 2 next to each other with no SLI/ crossfire cable. Could this possibly be hidden SLI or is it just stating it can work with other graphics cards side by side. I can't find the link but I saw someone run an Rx 480 with a GTX 1080. Thanks for any help

 

The GTX 1050, 1050Ti and 1060 do not support SLI.

 

What is shown is a DX12 feature which does not use SLI or CrossFire. The vast majority of games do not use DX12. If you bought 2 then you'd have a bad time.

[Aw_Ginger_Snapz]

I saw that feature too on the box of my 750ti from EVGA. The manual even showed an illustration of the card with SLI fingers and installation instructions with 2 cards. Even though the 750TI didn't support SLI, or have SLI fingers..... It was still pretty funny to see.