Crossfire being phased out

[mosemister]

Just read that AMD crossfire is being phased out

https://www.pcworld.com/article/3227865/components-graphics/amd-radeon-phases-out-the-crossfire-brand-as-multi-gpu-gets-more-complicated.html

 

Is this true?

[Guest]

Yes but multi gpu isnt going anywhere. its just being named something else.

[mosemister]

Ok. So crossfire is just named multi gpu in direct x 12? Or is multi gpu that windows 10 gpu shared rendering thing? 

[vanished]

this is old news, they already talked about it on WAN show

-moved to graphics cards section-

 

2 minutes ago, mosemister said:

Ok. So crossfire is just named multi gpu in direct x 12? Or is multi gpu that windows 10 gpu shared rendering thing? 

Starting with DX12 and Vulkan, multi GPU is handled differently with it being up to the developer to manually and individually utilize each card however they see fit, rather than (and this is a huge simplification but) just submitting it to render and then having SLI/crossfire distribute the load across the 2 or more GPUs.  This means more potential, both for performance, and to mess up.

[mosemister]

Thanks for the clarification. Just saw the NCIX tech tips have it in there video and I wanted to read into it (no sound). I couldn't find anything on it here so I thought it was new tech news. 

[Jumper118]

no, its a rumor started by nvidia.