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MuffinFlavored

01-31-2008, 01:29 PM

What would you perfer ATI and nVIDIA do for us enthusiasts?

I perfer single card solutions.

I think ATI and NVIDIA should make their marketing team stop advertisting dual and triple GPU solutions.

I think ATI and NVIDIA should make their driver team stop coding dual, triple, and quad GPU drivers.

I think ATI and NVIDIA, electronic engineers? should stop working on how to cram the most PCI-E lanes with a bridge chip onto one motherboard, or how to cram more than one core onto one card.

I think ATI and NVIDIA should work on creating new methods of getting things done, revise current methods to the best ability, the move on.

New, faster cores. Not more of the current cores in one solution, but then 2 or 3 of those solutions.

Focus on new single card solutions, and do the best possible at that.

I am personally against nVIDIA and ATI spending all their time developing and creating drivers for and marketing multiple GPU setups.

I believe they should focus on new single card solutions.
Work on bringing power down, make new methods, if needed, improve old methods, and improve performance.

cloned

01-31-2008, 06:07 PM

Swatrecon_

01-31-2008, 06:22 PM

i voted for the first option since i like to have more and more options. i say keep with dual card solutions and improving efficiency but scrap triple and quad solutions. and have the majority of the developers and coders working on single card solutions.

personally i would love to see dual core GPUs sometime in the near future instead of the SLI/crossfire-on-a-stick cards they are giving us

Dual-core GPU's have been around since the 9800 series from ATI. More than one die on one PCB is fairly new however. The 6800 (Nvidia) series, though, i believe had one that performed well.

xMrBunglex

01-31-2008, 08:36 PM

multi core is the way of the future. ATI's next generation R700 is going to be based on a multi core design. mid-level cards will have a single GPU and the high end will have two or more cores on a (single die?) if i understand it correctly, it will be like today's dual core and quad core CPU's.

i chose the third option in your poll though, because it was biased and you worded it that way on purpose. now i wish i had picked the first one just to be a jerk :P

jimmyz

02-01-2008, 04:45 AM

Dual-core GPU's have been around since the 9800 series from ATI. More than one die on one PCB is fairly new however. The 6800 (Nvidia) series, though, i believe had one that performed well.

actually cores is very misleading, the new 3870 x2 arguably has 640 cores total 320 per die. multi core is just how they function. multi die is not a new concept, it was one of the original ideas for increasing rendering power.

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=71635&stc=1&d=1201869838

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=71636&stc=1&d=1201869838

ATi7500

02-01-2008, 06:05 AM

There is only one reason behind the multi-die graphics chips: being cost-effective
Imagine this:
ATi does the RV770, let's suppose that ALONE that chip is performing 1.5 times than RV660

Then make 1 card with 1 RV770, one other with 2 RV770 and another with 4 RV770.

Voilà, with the develop of one chip, ATi has covered virtually all the ranges of graphics card market :)

of course this is just the theory behind...

roadie

02-01-2008, 08:01 AM

I hope the trend is for there only being 1 chip on high end cards. With multichip cards like the 3870X2, you need double the memory and I am sure a whole host of other duplicate parts. Single chip cards should be cheaper and more power efficient.

WrigleyVillain

02-01-2008, 08:09 AM

multi die is not a new concept, it was one of the original ideas for increasing rendering power.

Great pics. I'm all misty-eyed. :D

I see so far 84% have voted for option 3. :up: