SLI is really not Dead if you Have a SLI rig

Nvidia SLI is dead for the reason they did not want people to buy cheaper cards to have the same performance of a high expensive one. Also because the real hard core gamers got soft. Like in wanting the game to support it in settings. That was the biggest sorta thing I have seen over the last 20 years. I run SLI and all my games support it just fine even though there is no setting in the game itself. Reminds me of when I had my voodoo2's in SLI people did not understand how it works so they never learned how to configure it. SLI can be supported is almost any game if you do it in the driver not the game. When you do it in the driver the game only see's one card. But how it reads that card is dependant on the driver how it's configured. I take a cyberpunk for an example. It says it does not support crossfire or SLI. Ok I run all my games in 4k res so this is a perfect example. I have two 1080ti's in SLI and I disabled the SLI in the driver open the game and I get average 20 fps because it's an old card duh. But when I Enable SLI and go into the driver set it to quality and SLI enabled and open cyberpunk it still only reads the one card but my FPS now has jumped to average 45 to 55 FPS in 4k. Which means its using both cards as one. Which is what SLI suppose to do. Basicly one card is runing 1080p on the bottom half and the other is rendering 1080p on the top half in the 4k setup.


Now I'm looking to upgrade my systems someday and you notice no all the motherboards only come with a single slot PCE-E. Nvidia and AMD dropped the dual cards and now Motherboard companies dropped extra PCI-E slots. Now Gamers buy a 4090 and think performance is great 130 FPS with DLSS. But DLSS is not native true gaming. It's a software patch to the AI built into the card to lower the res then scale it back to the 4k. I was a hard core gamer and for the price of a 4090 I would expect it to run native 4k without any DLSS on any game over 130 FPS.


But its does not do that. And I'm like why world I pay that money for a POS card that cannot render 4k without any DLSS and trickery.


Gamers used to demand better. Now its all about the DLSS performance and driver updates to the AI to scale down your Games then scale them up to 4k or 8k.


I might just buy two 2080TI's and Nvlink them because I quite sure I could smoke a 4090 with ease in a SLI setup.


I'm holding out though to see if Nvidia 5000 series gets back to there roots of Hard core Gamer delights.