Years ago, one of the ways to improve the graphics performance of a computer was to install two or more graphics cards on a computer. NVIDIA comes up with support via SLI and NVLink connections.
SLI support has been disabled for a long time, but now NVIDIA has confirmed that their GeForce RTX 4000 series graphics cards will no longer support multi-GPU configurations in the absence of NVLink connectivity on these graphics cards.
Jensen Huang, CEO of NVIDIA said that NVLink support is being discontinued for several reasons. The first is because they want to reduce the cost and time required to solder the NVLink I/O plug to the graphics card, and the second is because they want to maximize the artificial intelligence capabilities of this series of graphics cards.
The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 graphics card will arrive in selected markets on October 12, while the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 with 16GB and 12GB GDDR6X memory will arrive in November.
