Am I being too Radical?

[Soul Rider]

Why the current trend towards 2xGPU products from the graphics companies. Sure nVidia have issues with the size of their chips and the fabrication, but what excuse ATI?

ATI is now part of AMD. With the 2 companies now 1, why have they not brought together their talents and make...............



A Dual Core GPU.

It's not rocket science is it? I mean, they have such small chip sizes due to the 55nm process, why not stick 2 together and get them working in tandem. Forget internal Crossfire, how about directly linked GPUs.

Why have they not done this? Or is my idea so off the planet that no-one thought of it? I don't understand.

 

[rippling]

i think that there next gpu the R700 will be the exact same thing that you have talked about

 

[Jokester]

GPUs are effectively massively parallel processors as it is already.

 

[Glass]

"Why the current trend towards 2xGPU"

to pump more $$ from FPS fanboys, pretty obvious.

 

[Talrinys]

There were rumors this summer about both of the "real" next-gen GPUs from ATI & Nvidia were multichip architectures, and yes it does indeed seem like a natural move. However it seems like stuff like shaders and memory might be their focus first.

 

[jaykay]

GPUs are effectively massively parallel processors as it is already.

Very true. With the introduction of the Stream Processors, each one does a different task. Kinda like a mini core.

The only reason i can see for multi gpu's is too keep cost down. e.g Make 1 chip and combine 8 of them for highend, 4-6 for midrange and 2 for lowend.