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Originally Posted by Tree_UK

Hi Oleg, could you tell us at the current level your at with this development whether the game engine runs significantly better with Nvidia cards running in SLI mode, we have seen that even most recent game releases only show a marginal FPS increase when running dual/triple/quad setups. Or are you not at that stage yet.

Hi Tree,
That's a great question. Personally, I think multi-GPU performance lies with the technology of the hardware makers, not the game developers. Otherwise how is it that, as you say, "even most recent game releases only show a marginal FPS increase when running dual/triple/quad setups."(?) Lucid's Hydra hardware shows promise at scaling multiple GPUs to nearly 100% regardless of software (games). Neither Crossfire nor SLi do that at present (claim that sort of scaling regardless of the game title).
Again, personally speaking, I'd rather go the better-value route and buy a good single GPU. Both major card companies hype the multi-GPU solution. But it's just that: marketing hype. I doubt you'll see anyone respond here stating that they went SLi or Crossfire and doubled their FPS in IL2 or in any recent games. Too much on the web to show otherwise.

There's lots of discussion about this. I searched "SLi and Crossfire", and here's the results of that search: http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/search.php?searchid=464915

here's one that is most recent (please read the sections on "Power consumption & Cost", and the "Conclusion": http://www.overclockersclub.com/revi...ssfire_vs_sli/
If nothing else, it's not on Oleg, as I said.
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