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You Asked for It, You Got It: SLI for AMD

By on Apr 28 2011 in Gaming
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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.  When you’re deciding what to build, finding the best CPU price performance ratio is key. After all, PC hardware doesn’t grow on trees!  

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.  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. After 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.

So today, we are pleased to announce that SLI has been licensed to the world’s leading motherboard companies for integration onto their upcoming motherboards featuring AMD’s 990FX, 990X and 970 chipsets.  ASUS, Gigabyte, ASRock, and MSI are among the first motherboard manufacturers to offer this new capability, with more coming on board shortly. 

We hope you enjoy GeForce GTX gaming in SLI on motherboards featuring either Intel or AMD CPUs.

Let us know what you think by responding below.

Thanks, and happy gaming!

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  • Anonymous

    I think this is a very good move on Nvidia’s part especially for those on a budget, and I must say I dont support brand loyalty… I go to the better product and with that said anyone who has done their research before making a purchase would realize that both Nvidia and Intel consistantly lead the way in innovative and superior products in their respective fields (i.e. GPU and CPU ) for years now. When and if AMD takes
    the lead in doing this… well my next rig will be AMD based, but for now I’m running with Intel and Nvidia products.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ghetu-Daniel/572942375 Ghetu Daniel

    a wise move Tom, congrats!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ghetu-Daniel/572942375 Ghetu Daniel

    Fermi’s a disappointment?

    you should check Steam Hardware Surveys before making such a statement.

    NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 2.49%
    ATI Radeon HD 6970 1.14%

    http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/videocard/

    not surprisingly 580 sells better than 6870, 6970 and 6950. Check it for yourself.

    please stop making such statements without any proof.

  • http://profiles.google.com/tzarsolomon Mr. De Javu

    2x 590 ??? lol
    I think you will have no diffrence with 2*470gtx on plain sight =)))

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Mark-Owens/1466337833 Mark Owens

    This is great news. Currently have an MSI 980a MB (the only one). Will be getting the new chipsets as soon as they come out. Intel CPU’s are just too darn expensive. For the good ones anyway. AMD has the best bang for the buck in my opinion. AMD and SLI FTW.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_WDT4RENEA7MIVBNUMDLKSDQV7I VALEntyn0

    he’s an overkill addicted, let him be…

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_WDT4RENEA7MIVBNUMDLKSDQV7I VALEntyn0

    like they would care about u, lmao!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_WDT4RENEA7MIVBNUMDLKSDQV7I VALEntyn0

    not according to biased reviews, gogo fanboys !

  • http://www.facebook.com/Maverick842 Joshua Motroni

    What about those of us with pre-existing AMD CPU/nVidia GPU setups? I just built a system in December and bought a board with the 890GX chipset, and kept my still-pretty-capable EVGA GTX 260, but the one downside to my board was that I wouldn’t be able to get a second 260 to beef up my graphics without tons of added cost.

    Are you guys gonna support (slightly) older chipsets? Is that something that would be up to you, or manufacturers?

    —-

  • http://profiles.google.com/tyzylstra Tyler Zylstra

    I bought an MSI nf980 board not long ago to go with my Thuban and 470s…and NOW this is released…oh well.

  • Tom Petersen

    When I said AMD was not the preferred CPU for gamers I was referencing current steam hardware surveys and IDC research. According to Steam Intel CPUs are used in 72% of all gamer PCs. IDC reports that Intel Accounted for 72% of desktop CPU sales. So pretty much by any objective measure – Gamers are choosing Intel. We are CPU agnostic though and with the new CPUs coming in Q2 we hope to see good gains for AMD.

  • Tom Petersen

    We don’t expect the addition of AMD chipset support to significantly change our market position. SLI is found in around 95% of all multi-GPU systems already. What matters to us is that we respond to customer requests – and we hear loud and clear a request to open up SLI to AMD motherboards.

  • http://jdb2.pip.verisignlabs.com/ Jonathan Busby

    This is great news. I have always used an Nvidia graphics card plus AMD processor combination in the custom systems I build for myself. When Nvidia announced that they would not support SLI on AMD chipsets in 2008 I was puzzled as I had always chosen an Nvidia graphics solution for its performance and great Linux drivers. So, even though I was a loyal customer Nvidia chose to lock me out of SLI even though I was waiting, willing and wanting to spend more on their products for multi-GPU setups. Secondly, Nvidia’s SLI in terms of motherboard support was purely driver based at this point and wasn’t it my right to buy and do what I wanted with my own hardware? Well, now I have two GTX 580s and I have had to “hack” certain BIOS tables to get around Nvidia’s Driver’s checks when it gets initialised at X startup. I’m still a loyal customer but I ask, why was I treated this way and will I still be treated this way with respect to my current AMD chipset, namely AMD’s 890FX?

    Regards,

    Jonathan

  • http://twitter.com/Baam66 Jim Fraser

    Nice to hear Nvidia is going to have SLI support for AMD again. Now i wish Bulldozer would hurry up and get here, so i can start building my new system.

  • Anonymous

    All I can say is for those of us that have remained AMD fans through all the Intel dominate days is : It’s about freakin time !

  • http://twitter.com/Krewell Kevin Krewell

    Tom – you are a rock star! Next time I update my motherboard, I’d consider AMD.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_SHUMQJEXPDMZVLRQA4WGBLL4J4 Hol

     I didn’t know Steam Surveys were indicative of performance, based solely on number of users who bought it. It’s like saying Nike is better than New Balance just because more people prefer Nike. What’s awful is you let pure stats from Steam dictate your position? I don’t know if you know this, but not everyone uses Steam, and not everyone lets Steam access and upload hardware stats. 

    TL;DR Don’t be a consumerist sheep.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_SHUMQJEXPDMZVLRQA4WGBLL4J4 Hol

     Please don’t use Steam as your basis, it’s just…ignorant.

  • Tom Petersen

    I don’t get your point.  Steam is installed and used by a lot of gamers and their data very closely matches 3rd party data.  

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Insn-Clwn-Guilty/100000611671488 Insn Clwn Guilty

    why?. amd is a market, with amd u alsa can paly  any kind of games. also why? u dnt make more chipset. i think the new amd 990 series will support sli. i know u r a sw company oriented to parallel computing. but gaming also a take part of ur market and also amd. i think u also have a great friendship with amd n not to much with intel. now intel goes to lucid tech with they new vitua chipset. let amd user have sli in amd chipset is a big punch 4 intel.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Insn-Clwn-Guilty/100000611671488 Insn Clwn Guilty

    of course, because the micro dosent do all job. also u need a micro with also feature, intel micro only the more expensive micro have almost all features. i know n all company pay to the sw company to do thet sw  work well with they products in term of sw al is posible. why have great sw in the market n also pretty bad sw. some sw works well on intel platform n others in amd. amd also have better drivers than intel. n of course nvidia drivers is the best one, of course all sw have they problems. but would like u gave more support to amd.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Insn-Clwn-Guilty/100000611671488 Insn Clwn Guilty

    also people buy any kind of mobos. n maybe they dont have a great relationship between hw and sw. amd chipset have more tech than intel like soi, hypertransport.i know  amd can have some memory controller issue, but who dosent. also 4 amd ur mobos must be a great mobo. the pr of a cpu depend of a lot of thing , not only depends of the micro

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Insn-Clwn-Guilty/100000611671488 Insn Clwn Guilty

    i think is just another intel inside marketing. stop intel marketing,n do great job. amd is a market. i think u will see now  more sli on amd system.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Michael-Kohler/1109240422 Michael Kohler

    I can’t see why not let SLI on all motherboards past and future so you can use what ever GPU componets you want and let the chips fall where they may. Trying to control what we buy I don’t think was the way to go. I have sli on AMD but may have gone Intel if it would have supported it back in the X48 days. I go for the best value and right now it is still AMD and Nvidia for my choce. I only game though so there may be some adv I don’t know about.

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