OCTOBER 2020 PCWorld 19An Nvidia-supplied chart showing the GeForce RTX 3090’s performance at 8K resolution.
Nvidia just sealed the deal.
Well, almost, like I said. The GeForce RTX
3090 still supports it, but that’s because it’s
the only card that still needs it to meet its
intended use. Nvidia’s pitching this beast as
the first-ever 8K-capable graphics card, and
that’s with the company’s fantastic DLSS 2.
technology enabled. Not many games
support DLSS yet, and even the ones that do
could still use more help
to hit smooth frame
rates at such a ludicrous
resolution. If you thought
pushing pixels at 4K
resolution was rough,
check out these Nvidia
performance metrics at
8K (see bottom graph).
An NVLink
connection can also
help with compute and
content creation
workloads for this
pricey Titan-in-all-but-name.
So yeah, SLI isn’t technically dead, but it’s
effectively dead for all but the top 0.1 percent
of us. If you’ve got $3,000 to drop on a pair
of RTX 3090s, by all means feel free to lord it
over your geeky pals. Just don’t expect
developers to spend much time making sure
it works great in your games.
Farewell, SLI. We hardly knew ye.The GeForce RTX 3080 lacks SLI connectors.