I'm still gonna call it crossfire.

Good luck getting devs to do anything with it, let alone DX 12. I'm still waiting on Ark devs to even do anything with DX 12. I don't see a plethora of devs going out of their way to optimise for it.

DX 12, what a failure.

Crossfire (simple and elegant and makes sense, nameing wise)

Crossfire > Explicit Multi-Adapter.

Im still hopeing Vulkan gets adopted as the "new" api of choice from developers.

So linux,mac,old windows users can all enjoy games too.

It ll also make porting stuff to android easier, or the other way around.

simplicity helps

Crossfire and SLI were too much of a pain anyway. Games usually either didn't support it or produced glitches while doing them. Rarely did games support them well enough to justify a second gpu purchase imo. I was always a single GPU dude anyway.

AMD is wasting time with mGPU when they could simply be working on DX12 to gain the competitive advantage ...

I have been a "Crossfire" user since the very beginning with the Radeon x800 series where you needed a master and a slave GPU.

Before that... You had the ATI Rage Fury Maxx which was a dual-GPU card back in the late 90's... ATI didn't call it crossfire then though.

I also had a pair of Voodoo 2's in SLI as well at one point...

It's sad that Multi-GPU setups are being pushed aside, but it is what it is, probably wouldn't be an issue if AMD had a super high-end performing GPU though.

I thought they would do like Nvidia and drop support for X-Fire with more than 2 cards, not drop the name for something as generic as "mGPU".

I don't think it's a good move from them because, as seen in this thread, many will think that they're abandoning it completelly, not just renaming it.