ATI to implement 3xGPUs's

easyrider · 8 Jun 2006 at 15:51

Yawn...

GFX cards are getting on my nerves now its just getting beyond a joke!

lol

LoadsaMoney · 8 Jun 2006 at 17:59

easyrider said:
Yawn...

GFX cards are getting on my nerves now its just getting beyond a joke!

lol

Same here, all sorts of **** happening now to get you to spend more money, the only person who's gona be able to afford a new graphics card will be Abramovich (sp) before long.

speeduk · 8 Jun 2006 at 18:07

So let me get this straight. In order to play pc games at top details - I will have to buy a crossfire rig and not be able to sell my current card and use it as a ppu?

I am ordering an xbox360 if this turns out true.

james.miller · 8 Jun 2006 at 18:10

you know, it goes round and round and round in circles but what do people learn from it? nothing.

people said the same thing about mpeg2 cards. Not needed, outrage, i shouldnt have to buy a seperate card ect ect. Now what's happened to them? they are integrated into gpu's and you people dont batter an eyelid at it now.

The same thing happens whenever a new tech is released - same old arguemnts. To make advances you have to have push new technologies to the market, and not all of them are going to be easy to swallow.

King_Boru · 8 Jun 2006 at 18:10

I think ATI have hit the nail on the head with this one. Excelent idea in my eyes.

SteveOBHave · 8 Jun 2006 at 18:25

james.miller said:
you know, it goes round and round and round in circles but what do people learn from it? nothing.

people said the same thing about mpeg2 cards. Not needed, outrage, i shouldnt have to buy a seperate card ect ect. Now what's happened to them? they are integrated into gpu's and you people dont batter an eyelid at it now.

The same thing happens whenever a new tech is released - same old arguemnts. To make advances you have to have push new technologies to the market, and not all of them are going to be easy to swallow.

Heh - I think I will have to dissagree with you on that one - I think they release the tech so that they can milk more money out of the big spenders. I don't believe for a moment that this hardware can't be optimised in the lab and released in a resonable state. I also don't believe that they don't have the tech to integrate all of these things into one card, and if they don't they shouldn't be releasing so much pap.

ray · 8 Jun 2006 at 19:55

ATI GPU-based physics acceleration movies can be downloaded here:

http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=1417

Andy Pandy · 8 Jun 2006 at 21:29

computer cases and motherboards need to be much bigger i think. 4 graphics cards leaves no room for a sound card or something. Id be lost without my x-fi. I bet in a year or two cases will be massive

Dirkscooby · 8 Jun 2006 at 21:33

It also goes on how the motherboard is layed out. I have crossfire(which I haven't had any problems with)and I have my xfi. I now have no more room for any other cards.

King_Boru · 8 Jun 2006 at 21:56

dont forget that you need a motherboard with 3 PCI-E 16 slots...

NightmareXX · 8 Jun 2006 at 22:11

Tommy B said:
FFS this is geting stupid.

Why not just make ONE awesomely powerful GPU.

Well I believe they've been trying. One simple word. Heat.

Thats the only thing AFAIK that stops companies from making uber big chips. They just generate too much heat.

Back to the discussion...

Liking the idea as you can use a space PCI-E card to do the work. Say you had an X1900 and you upgraded to a X3200 (Or whatever). You can use the X1900 for physics (That reminds me, need to do some revision

) and you don't have to sell it

Final8y · 9 Jun 2006 at 06:52

King_Boru said:
dont forget that you need a motherboard with 3 PCI-E 16 slots...

Yeah & do you think there will be any made with 939 cpu socket.. unlikely.
So another mobo a new M2 cpu New ,DD2 ram just so i can slam my older 1800xt in it.
Ageia PhysX card may end up being cheaper in the end. only wish the price comes down soon & it used one of the smaller pcie slots as pci has got to be a bottleneck.

SteveOBHave · 9 Jun 2006 at 08:14

Final8y said:
Yeah & do you think there will be any made with 939 cpu socket.. unlikely.
So another mobo a new M2 cpu New ,DD2 ram just so i can slam my older 1800xt in it.
Ageia PhysX card may end up being cheaper in the end. only wish the price comes down soon & it used one of the smaller pcie slots as pci has got to be a bottleneck.

But even the Ageia people are saying that you need SLI or Crossfire to properly support their product. Either way your wallet gets significantly lighter.

FrankJH · 9 Jun 2006 at 09:30

The idea is great, however if its just an EFFECT this is a sever limitation in my eyes

this also dispels the rumour that ATI and AMD are going to merge - if the merger WAS on the cards do you think ATI would launch something like this PPU "project" in conjunction with Intel Duo (albeit with AMD launch coming later)........

nbkpsycho · 9 Jun 2006 at 12:20

What a joke tbh :eek:

Azza · 9 Jun 2006 at 12:54

AGEIA Responds To ATI's Triple Play

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=2772

lolage at Ati, loos like they may have to come up with a differnet solution.

glenimp617 · 9 Jun 2006 at 12:56

That's IT!

Right that's it. My X1900XT-X X-Fire has been sold. I'm no longer playing games now. I just can't keep up with it!

BubbySoup · 9 Jun 2006 at 13:04

Why are people getting so upset?

This is physics - it's not your PSU, or your motherboard. Your games will function perfectly without using any of these solutions, so there is no extra expenditure unless you want it. Don't worry about it.

Currently, and for the foreseeable future, physcis will be used for eye candy. You will only need to get the torches and pitchforks out when games require you to have some form of PPU as the physics is an integral part of the gameplay - at the rate software takes advantage of new hardware, that is a long way off imo.

Final8y · 9 Jun 2006 at 13:46

SteveOBHave said:
But even the Ageia people are saying that you need SLI or Crossfire to properly support their product. Either way your wallet gets significantly lighter.

Its not really the same as ppl have crossfire for crossfire.
The Ageia can allows for more onscreen physx but the gfx cards out atm dont have the power to render the extra moveing physx objects onscreen ,so crossfire will help

SteveOBHave · 9 Jun 2006 at 13:57

Final8y said:
Its not really the same as ppl have crossfire for crossfire.
The Ageia can allows for more onscreen physx but the gfx cards out atm dont have the power to render the extra moveing physx objects onscreen ,so crossfire will help

I'd have to say that I am dubious about that statement. There have been a number of incidences of ATI and NVIDIA suggesting that there is plenty of leeway on the processing power of a GPU to render the 'extra' objects onscreen. The issue lies with the GPU being told where the objects are going to be...