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RE: The SLI craze that fucked me because I was dumb
Never used sli or crossfire but i had some friends who ran in to a lot of issue with it. Next thing they want to do is start adding more gpus per graphics card so 4 gpus on 1 card.
Yeah, well AMD tried that with 7990 if I remember correctly, but the memory from the second chip was literally useless. The only thing that scaled was the frequency, but it wasn't a double scale, it was 50-40%+ scale, which meant that the huge price wasn't worth it AT ALL considering that the end result of a GPU with 2 chips was performing, in the best conditions with the best optimization, like a graphics card and a half...practically:
1 * 7990 = 1.5 * 7970 in performance in the best conditions... Real life probably lower...
I do not belive theynplan to run sli i think it is ment be like a quad core cpu but a gpu so more then ome gpu per die not per card my bad
Oh ok, that is something else. I think until they get on that level they still have to make use of that huge x16 3.0 pciE bandwith. The VEGA platform seems to make use of the large bandwidth a little more but the alpha drivers seem to need a lot of work before going public. I hope AMD will not make the same mistake it always does...with the drivers I mean.
If i read it right they are pretty much saying that they can't do much more with 1 gpu on a single core so kinda guess where cpus where at when we got the first dual core