Why only 4-way CF/Quad SLI?

[WiseUp216]

Don't you people think that Quad SLI/xFire is overkill anyway. The sweet spot is 2 GPUs in SLI/xFire. Anything after that is just a waste of hard-earned money.

I would disagree. I think if you have the money and it makes you happy then go for it. There are far worse ways to spend money in this world.

 

[Costas Athan]

What's the difference between 4-Way CFX and Quad-GPU CFX?

 

[jacktesterson]

I was just curious. No need to get all weird about it.

haha

its been brought up before, and we've seen some pics before. He's also been in tons of benchmark threads over the years.

I remember the old 486 sig he had for a while, or pentium mmx, something along those lines.

Anyways, just saying, i've been here for 11+ years, his system is legit.

 

[Black Octagon]

What's the difference between 4-Way CFX and Quad-GPU CFX?

Nothing

 

[coffey]

Why both NV and AMD only supports four GPUs working together? Are there any technical limitations with AFR and more GPUs or is it dictated by financials i.e. why spend resources for an extremely small niche of the market?

The market for a 4 card gaming setup is already tiny, no reason to spend time on allowing more cards.

As mention earlier, you can go higher in non gaming applications.
Large multi GPU setups for folding are not uncommon.

 

[Costas Athan]

Nothing

Is that correct?

Why ASUS list them as a different filter option then? (http://www.asus.com/Motherboard/Intel_Platform_Products/) And it uses the same options for SLI as well: 4-Way SLI, Quad-GPU SLI.

 

[chimaxi83]

Is that correct?

Why ASUS list them as a different filter option then? (http://www.asus.com/Motherboard/Intel_Platform_Products/) And it uses the same options for SLI as well: 4-Way SLI, Quad-GPU SLI.

It's just different wording for the same thing.

 

[VirtualLarry]

It's just different wording for the same thing.

I don't think so. Quad-GPU SLI would allow for four cards. 4-Way SLI can be done with two 690 cards for example. They are not the same.

 

[chimaxi83]

4 way SLI and quad GPU SLI both mean four GPUs, in SLI. It doesn't matter if each card has 1 GPU each, or two cards have 2 GPUs each. The total is four GPUs. GPU doesn't necessarily mean card.

 

[AdamK47]

I don't think so. Quad-GPU SLI would allow for four cards. 4-Way SLI can be done with two 690 cards for example. They are not the same.

Then why does the SLI indicator show "Quad-SLI" when I enable it?

It's indeed the same thing.