By Darren Allan
AMD has confirmed that its new Radeon RX Vega graphics cards won’t support any more than two cards in a multi-GPU (previously known as CrossFire) configuration, ruling out the possibility of three- or four-way setups when it comes to gaming.
You will, however, still be able to link up the power of three or four cards when it comes to general computing usage.
PC World discovered this when the website nudged AMD as to what was going on with multi-GPU setups with the firm’s latest drivers, and received the following reply: “We have delivered two-way mGPU support in games. Three- and four-way configurations will continue being supported in compute and professional applications.”
Monster niche
Of course, these sort of three or four GPU setups are very much a niche area for those who want to branch out into experimental monster rigs (with a monster cost), so the impact of this move will be minimal anyway.
Plus there’s also the consideration that such multi-GPU configurations often suffer from diminishing gains, with performance varying widely according to the game in question (with sometimes very disappointing results given all the raw pixel-pushing power involved with a trio or more of graphics cards).
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Source:: techradar.com – Computing Components
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