SLI on non SLI specific board

[A Silver]

I am planning on upgrading to a z690 board but currently none of them seem to state SLI support on the product page. Most of them do have multiple 16x slots so would that still work (as well as SLI does in 2021)?

[jaslion]

Sli has been officially killed off. No new games support it it is a waste of money.

 

They don't specify it because they don't bother testing it or including it because it's a dead technology.

[A Silver]

Just now, jaslion said:

Sli has been officially killed off. No new games support it it is a waste of money.

 

They don't specify it because they don't bother testing it or including it because it's a dead technology.

I know but that was not my question, I wanted to know if it would work or not in the few scenarios that it is still functional 

[jaslion]

1 minute ago, A Silver said:

I know but that was not my question, I wanted to know if it would work or not in the few scenarios that it is still functional 

Since the boards won't support it no.

 

Keep in mind that sli is breaking for older games too the newer the driver gets as it is no longer being maintained.

[A Silver]

Just now, jaslion said:

Since the boards won't support it no.

 

Keep in mind that sli is breaking for older games too the newer the driver gets as it is no longer being maintained.

Fair enough, other than GTA 5 and Red Dead 2, I don't actually think anything else uses it so I guess I could actually sell one and use that for a better board or memory. The new CPU will probably give such a large performance increase I won't notice the different in those two games

[Lurick]

The board has to be SLI certified for it to work, otherwise it will not regardless of the number of x8 or x16 slots sadly.

[A Silver]

Just now, Lurick said:

The board has to be SLI certified for it to work, otherwise it will not regardless of the number of x8 or x16 slots sadly.

Makes sense. I might as well sell my second 1080 as upgrading to a 12th gen CPU will probably make it feel like a new GPU even in the two games that still use both GPU's.

[dizmo]

10 hours ago, A Silver said:

Makes sense. I might as well sell my second 1080 as upgrading to a 12th gen CPU will probably make it feel like a new GPU even in the two games that still use both GPU's.

I wouldn't put that much faith in a new CPU giving you a huge performance jump. You're unlikely to be very CPU bottlenecked.

[A Silver]

16 hours ago, dizmo said:

I wouldn't put that much faith in a new CPU giving you a huge performance jump. You're unlikely to be very CPU bottlenecked.

I read someone had the same CPU and GPU as me currently and they upgraded to a Ryzen 3600 and had a huge boost in performance so I am hopeful 

[Blue4130]

7 hours ago, A Silver said:

I read someone had the same CPU and GPU as me currently and they upgraded to a Ryzen 3600 and had a huge boost in performance so I am hopeful 

That is going to depend on the resolution. What is your current CPU and what resolution do you play at?

[A Silver]

12 hours ago, Blue4130 said:

That is going to depend on the resolution. What is your current CPU and what resolution do you play at?

Currently an i7 4790k and running 1440p

[Error 504]

On 10/29/2021 at 6:06 AM, jaslion said:

Sli has been officially killed off. No new games support it it is a waste of money.

 

They don't specify it because they don't bother testing it or including it because it's a dead technology.

i know almost all new games don't support sli, and old games don't scale well.

 

but how about rendering? do most software support sli?

[dilpickle]

On 10/29/2021 at 7:52 AM, A Silver said:

I am planning on upgrading to a z690 board but currently none of them seem to state SLI support on the product page. Most of them do have multiple 16x slots so would that still work (as well as SLI does in 2021)?

I see Asus and MSI with SLI boards.

[A Silver]

4 hours ago, Error 504 said:

i know almost all new games don't support sli, and old games don't scale well.

 

but how about rendering? do most software support sli?

I did some benchmarks in different games (including GTA5 and RDR2) which use both GPU's and there was essentially no difference between performance with SLI vs single so I ordered a MoBo that does not support SLI and I will sell one of my 1080s and upgrade probably when 4000 series comes out. Did not check rendering as I do not do that as much as I used to but I doubt there would be much benefit anyway

[A Silver]

3 hours ago, dilpickle said:

I see Asus and MSI with SLI boards.

Oh well, I went for a board without SLI support as my testing showed no difference with SLI enabled vs disabled. Will sell one GPU and upgrade the second at a later date 

[jaslion]

5 hours ago, Error 504 said:

i know almost all new games don't support sli, and old games don't scale well.

 

but how about rendering? do most software support sli?

Rendering doesn't even use sli. They just use the cards on their own if it supports using multiple gpu's. You can use any combination then.

 

5 hours ago, Error 504 said:

i know almost all new games don't support sli

All new games do not support sli.

[jaslion]

58 minutes ago, A Silver said:

I did some benchmarks in different games (including GTA5 and RDR2) which use both GPU's and there was essentially no difference between performance with SLI vs single so I ordered a MoBo that does not support SLI and I will sell one of my 1080s and upgrade probably when 4000 series comes out. Did not check rendering as I do not do that as much as I used to but I doubt there would be much benefit anyway

They support it but it's not maintained by anyone so this happens.

 

Rendering depends on the application but in things like blender it can be a +100% performance since that one can render on any number of any kind of gpu's. It doesn't use sli however it just uses the cards.