What happened to SLI dual cards?
What happened to SLI dual cards?
By chance, in certain scenarios (like AI), the "professional" NVDIA GPUs utilize NVlink (which can take over to replace SLI, though not for gaming or regular graphics tasks).
I never bought another Voodoo2, but SLI was really effective at that time for delivering solid performance from a high-end GPU. If you could boost your 5090 SLI setup by 50-100%, it would definitely attract attention.
Since driver updates don't directly affect the cards, they actually target the operating system. For gamers, particularly those using SLI or Crossfire, this usually means Windows. A "Vbios update" would reach the graphics card itself, not the driver. Drivers serve as instructions for the OS to properly interact with hardware components.
Weirdly enough, if you have or found an SLI/Crossfire PC, it just might work better in 2026 thanks to LSFG (Lossless Scaling Frame Gen).
Instead of dealing with trying to run the GPUs in parallel, LSFG will run dual GPUs in serial.
There is a slight latency penalty, but you don't have to worry about driver incompatibilities with certain games.