AMD CrossFireX Technology Stopped - mGPU Now Comes With Support For Two AMD Graphics Cards

 

The AMDs now appear to have stopped their Multi-CrossFireX GPU technology, and will replace it with new GPU technology that will support two AMD graphics cards, and not four as before.

According to the AMD, GPU's various technology support will still be present for their current and future graphics cards, but it will not be present as we know it for now. AMD wants to stop using the CrossFireX brand as this technology refers to support for graphics APIs up to DirectX11 only.

For users, changing the name from CrossfireX to mGPU does not make any difference, because for them this is just a branding conversion. CrossFireX will still be used for computer games and applications that still use DirectX 11, while applications that use the DirectX12 API, Vulcan and others will use mGPU. 

In the meantime, AMD also launched the latest Radeon Software Crimson ReLive Edition 17.9.2 graphics software update that provides AMD RX Vega 56 and 64 support graphics card simultaneously for blend of two graphics cards simultaneously.

Moving forward, AMD, along with NVIDIA seems to only support the combination of two graphics cards, and no more four as before. This is because the current graphics card performance is fast enough, and the combination of more than two graphics cards is no longer needed, and this allows the AMD and NVIDIA to focus on building more powerful and efficient graphics cards, and less to support existing technology note that it comes with enough of its own problems.