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do you remember a time not so long ago when one of the hallmarks of a super

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high-end gaming rig was having multiple graphics cards and why not you could get

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high settings high resolutions and high frame rates to a point unattainable by

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mere mortals but here we are in 2019 and it almost seems like things have taken a

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step backwards in that it's becoming less and less common to see sli and

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crossfire setups so why is this the case

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when gamers are still interested in getting the best experience possible so

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as we partially explained in a previous video part of the lack of appeal comes

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from technical issues inherent to the platform you see in a dual GPU setup

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each GPU renders every other frame in a process called

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alternate frame rendering which makes intuitive sense but not only do the

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cards have a hard time syncing up with each other producing a visual glitch

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called micro stutter afr also doesn't

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always play nicely with more modern anti-aliasing methods that rely on data

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from the previous frame to guess what the next frame should look like and

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newer technologies haven't completely solved the problems that cards in a

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multi-GPU setup have communicating with each other on the NVIDIA side although

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there's a new bus called nvlink which has greater bandwidth than traditional

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sli not all of its features such as resource

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pooling work with consumer grades cards it was designed for professional GPU

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compute applications in mind not gamers newer apis such as vulkan and directx 12

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also haven't made the situation any easier for the average consumer you see

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in the past sli and crossfire took a more active role in handling the task of

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splitting game workloads across cards however newer apis give more control to

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the game developer so that they can code for multi-GPU in a way that they see fit

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and although this sounds like it could lead to games using multiple cards more

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efficiently it turns out that developers simply

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don't want to take on the burdensome extra workload of coding specifically

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for a setup that not many people are using so lots of modern games simply are

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not well optimized for multi-GPU and as if all these issues weren't enough to

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keep gamers away from sli and crossfire the fact that cards are now more

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powerful makes multi-GPU even less appealing although many of us marvel at

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4k ultra wide and multi-monitor gaming

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battle stations the fact is that most gamers are still playing at 1080p and a

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solid single current gen card can run most games at high or even maximum

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settings at smooth frame rates which wasn't necessarily the case just a few

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years ago this means that a problem that multi-GPU has already had buying two

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cards and then having a single card from the next generation come along and

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provide more similar performance is even more pronounced nowadays and with many

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gamers simply not caring about niche setups with diminishing returns or

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having the money to even afford them if they do care

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there hasn't been a compelling case for more multi-GPU adoption and of course

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being surprised that sli and crossfire aren't more popular presupposes that

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graphically demanding games are dominating the market

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while there still are plenty of beautiful aaa titles that end up

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becoming best sellers there's been a resurgent interest in 2d and retro style

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games that don't require nearly as much computing muscle to run

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you simply do not need a 2 000 multi GPU

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rig to run cuphead or sonic mania and even many popular current 3d titles like

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fortnite don't require expensive hardware as they're designed for broad

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appeal rather than the best looking graphics possible then again if you're

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the type of person who drives a lifted truck just so you can have the biggest

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vehicle on the block shelling out the extra money for a second graphics card

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