NVIDIA Announces SLI for AMD

Not everyone has or likes Intel for one reason or another. NVIDIA, finally listening to its many fans, has decided to begin offering SLI for AMD CPUs. In a recent blog post they stated:

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. 

Now the blog post states that they’ve only licenesed the SLI tech to Intel because they’re the gaming CPUs of choice. To me that sounds like some malarkey and what it really sounds like is that they didn’t want to because as you know, AMD now owns ATi and the Radeon brand (since 2006 actually).

So now, if you want to go with a multi-GPU solution and and AMD CPU, it’s no longer going to be a problem. We can probably expect a list of motherboard announcements stating that they’re not SLI ready on the AMD side of things.

For gamers, it’s a good deal. No matter what price point you’re looking at for both CPU and GPU now your options aren’t so limited as you can literally mix and match as you see fit. So we have to tip our hats to NVIDIA for having a change of heart and doing what the community has asked of them.