NVIDIA announces support for SLI on AMD chipsets

Brian Ambrozy 28 Apr, 2011 at 10:24am ET Article published in Tech

In a blog post entitled, “You asked for it, you got it“, NVIDIA’s Tom Peterson announced today that NVIDIA will begin offering SLI support on new motherboards from ASUS, Gigabyte, ASRock, and MSI that feature the AMD 990FX, 990X, and 970 chipsets. He also mentioned that there will be more coming on board shortly.

I have to admit, the spin attempt is grand, even if it’s basically transparent as hell. Let’s run it through the Icrontic real-speak translator:

With new DX11 games coming out, lots of you guys (and gals) are building new gaming rigs and trying to decide what CPU to use.

Translation: Damn, girls play computer now! Look, we acknowledge that! Aren’t we progressive?

Long term gamers probably remember that for a long time AMD offered great high-end CPUs, but in recent years, AMD’s stature as the preferred gaming CPU fell by the wayside and Intel CPUs have been the gamers’ choice.

Translation: Anyone who knows anything about computers knows that AMD used to suck. Noobs.

For this reason, we’ve only licensed SLI for motherboards with Intel chipsets. However, we’ve been recently hearing chants of “SLI for AMD CPUs”, and figured that now is a great time to do it.

Hint: that’s not the reason

Ater all, we want to make sure gamers can benefit from the new CPU competitive landscape and ensure they have NVIDIA SLI – the highest performance, most stable multi-GPU solution – to game on! According to Steam, 93% of all multi-GPU systems in use today use SLI.

Hey, Intel, old buddy old pal *jab*

At any rate, this is good news for those who want to buy NVIDIA cards and run SLI, but also enjoy the AMD side of things when it comes to CPU. This could be exciting news a generation from now, when Bulldozer is out.

Comments

28 Apr 2011 ~ 10:57am Garg Nvidia needs to invest more in PR. Perhaps hiring someone from the Icrontic Academy of GPU Journalism.
28 Apr 2011 ~ 11:48am Tom B nVidia announces something works that has worked for years with hacked drivers. Kudos.
28 Apr 2011 ~ 5:52pm Cliff_Forster I'll translate,

At Nvidia, we lacked the vision necessary to partner with AMD when we had the chance, they purchased ATI, now they are eating our lunch. If you can't beat em.... you know the rest.
28 Apr 2011 ~ 6:21pm shwaip

Cliff_Forster wrote:

I'll translate,

At Nvidia, we lacked the vision necessary to partner with AMD when we had the chance, they purchased ATI, now they are eating our lunch. If you can't beat em.... you know the rest.

I'll translate. GOD AMD, YOUR COCK TASTES SO GOOD. MOAR PLX.
28 Apr 2011 ~ 10:30pm Garg

shwaip wrote:

I'll translate. GOD AMD, YOUR COCK TASTES SO GOOD. MOAR PLX.

I'll bet somebody would like to get some CrossFire action.
29 Apr 2011 ~ 5:55pm Cliff_Forster

shwaip wrote:

I'll translate. GOD AMD, YOUR COCK TASTES SO GOOD. MOAR PLX.

It took me an entire day to determine an appropriate response for your obvious troll.... so, for kicks, here we go.

Marketing material focused for the typical Nvidia fanboy. Notice the pot belly, the scruffy face, and the obvious social awkwardness of the mascot. Hell, you can almost smell the body odor through the screen. Obviously this is what stirs the passions of the typical Nvidia user.

Radeon fans have Ruby. How we differ, I'll let you figure it out for yourself.
1 May 2011 ~ 2:26pm shwaip You should probably have spent a little while longer thinking about it.
12 May 2011 ~ 8:37pm jedihobbit

Tom B wrote:

nVidia announces something works that has worked for years with hacked drivers. Kudos.

Of which I would need to be directed..........

Precisely 2 x evga 285 GTX SSC in one each MSI 890GXM-E65