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Before this calendar week, we discussed new exam results for Ashes of the Singularity that showed GPUs from AMD and Nvidia running the game side-by-side. Unfortunately, Oxide has made the conclusion non to make this build of the game public immediately. What nosotros do have, courtesy of Oxide,  is video evidence of the ultimate Frankenstein rig running both AMD and Nvidia GPUs.

Note that in this case, the hardware patently isn't configured for any kind of SLI passthrough — AMD doesn't use physical bridges the fashion Nvidia nonetheless does, and this kind of hardware wouldn't be able to take reward of it, since the 2 visitor'southward use very unlike pinouts. Nevertheless, the rig works and works well.

Oxide's benchmark test pairs a GTX 980 with a Fury Nano and notes that scaling is extremely proficient, though not quite perfect. While the video isn't quite every bit gameplay-focused as we might like, the footage that exists runs without apparent bug. As we've noted, there's very little that whatever ODM can do to prevent this way from working. AMD and Nvidia tin can certainly try to encourage developers to adopt LDA (Linked Display Adapter), which mimics DX11 functionality, every bit opposed to the MDA mode shown hither, which allows GPUs from multiple vendors to work together. But AMD and Nvidia can't prevent information technology outright.

Some readers have asked whether or non PCI-E has enough bandwidth to make MDA plausible in all scenarios. This is a valid question, and nosotros'll need more than information from other games before we take a guaranteed reply, but given that AMD stopped using bridge cables back in 2022, we doubtable PCIe 3.0 has all the bandwidth necessary to feed fifty-fifty 4K multi-GPU configurations.

With PCI-Express four.0 now not expected to debut until 2022 or 2022 due to the difficulty of achieving the standard'southward 16GT/s transfer rate, information technology'll be important to balance any new capabilities confronting what PCI-E iii.0 tin provide. And so again, Ashes shows extremely strong scaling in the Nano + GTX 980 test, and a still-impressive 1.62x when the higher-end Fury X and GTX 980 Ti were used. Neither AMD nor Nvidia have fallen over themselves to publicly congratulate Oxide, then we'll do information technology for them — gentlemen, we appreciate your efforts in making gaming more attainable to consumers who prefer to buy based on toll/performance ratios rather than sticking to whatever single visitor.

Ashes of the Singularity is currently in Early on Access on Steam. As with all EA titles, exist aware that the game is still in early stages and that current gameplay or unit balance may not reverberate the final retail production.