Sapphire built a Dual-core R300, but they didnt sell it because it was too expensive to produce or something...
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Sapphire built a Dual-core R300, but they didnt sell it because it was too expensive to produce or something...
I've seen pics of a Four core 9800 based card that used the AGP slot and one PCI slot, but I don't have any details on it.Quote:
Originally posted by Slickthellama
i could have sworn some company tried a dual core R300 but it refused to post.
nope, it wouldnt post.Quote:
Originally posted by STEvil
Sapphire built a Dual-core R300, but they didnt sell it because it was too expensive to produce or something...
hercules built that card, and they had synchronization probs and they needec 8 layer pcb i think... very expensive!
dual gpu cards are very uneffective, usually a 2gpu card is only 25% faster than a single gpu card with the same chip...
not necessarily, the VSA-100 was exactly twice as fast with 2 chips over 1, and twice as fast again with 4 over 2. sure if you put two chips not designed for it together your not going to get optimal results, but if they are designed with that in mind it can work very well, as shown by 3dfx.
dont think we will see dual chips for a while, first single chip would need to be maxed out, second we may just run in parrallel with more than 1 pci-e slot. imagine! those with the most money would get the best performance. run 5 of the $500 cards
Well....I'm not sure if you know this. But SLI stood for Scan Line Interleave. The first card processed the odd lines and the second processed the even ones...I suppose if you had more than two they would be auto-assigned a range to process...but this is neither here nor there...as it will probably never happen.Quote:
Originally posted by Geforce4ti4200
dont think we will see dual chips for a while, first single chip would need to be maxed out, second we may just run in parrallel with more than 1 pci-e slot. imagine! those with the most money would get the best performance. run 5 of the $500 cards
hmm, so a serious bencher would need what.. 6x2 cascade stages for the gpus??! :D
Put away your poppers cos they mess up with your head. TNT2 Ultra 32MB slower than 16megger V3. please, i had both and you stop telling me V3 was faster.Quote:
Originally posted by Kalway
What are you smoking? I want some. V3 still surpassed TNT2. It wasn't until Geforce that nvidia finally really took the crown.
I had a tnt2 vanta 8mb and a voodoo3 2000 8mb and the tnt2 vanta was faster in low res and just a bit slower in high res. a 64 bit vanta almost as fast as a 128 bit voodoo3, thats just sad. In low res, memory bandwith isnt very important so my vanta owned the voodoo3
My own memory tells me this..
The V3 was faster than the TNT2... [or was it that a dual V2 setup in SLI was faster?]
There's a card after the TNT2 I havent seen anyone mention..
The Ultra TNT2! That was the card that definitely took the speed crown away. Pretty sweet card during it's time.
GeForce was the next blow that shattered 3dfx.
no you got it wrong:
tnt>voodoo2
then voodoo3>tnt
next tnt2>voodoo3
the geforces came out and 3dfx's vooodoo5 did pretty good against that, but the geforce had TL and was alot more futureproof