Frame generation: multi-GPU is back!

[Quartz]

ETA Prime boosts his RTX 3060 with an Arc A380.

 

[pastymuncher]

Ugghh, Him moving the camera around so much has brought on my motion sickness. I haven't touched Borderlands since the original as it made me feel sick and I hated the cartoony graphics.

 

[iamgigglz]

Setting aside the whole convo around frame gen etc, I'm really impressed at how not only multi-GPU, but multi-vendor multi-GPU support just works in Windows these days. There was a time not long ago that putting an nVidia and AMD card in the same rig was unthinkable.

 

[baritonejohann]

Setting aside the whole convo around frame gen etc, I'm really impressed at how not only multi-GPU, but multi-vendor multi-GPU support just works in Windows these days. There was a time not long ago that putting an nVidia and AMD card in the same rig was unthinkable.

nvidia and intel but yeah

 

[iamgigglz]

nvidia and intel but yeah

I was talking about " a time not long ago" meaning before Arc was a thing

 

[Armageus]

Putting aside the whole Frame Generation "fake frames" nonsense, surely if you have the money to buy 2 low end cards, then you could have just bought a better card in the first place?

 

[baritonejohann]

I was talking about " a time not long ago" meaning before Arc was a thing

ah fair dinkum

 

[throwaway4372]

Putting aside the whole Frame Generation "fake frames" nonsense, surely if you have the money to buy 2 low end cards, then you could have just bought a better card in the first place?

And if you have an old card and can't afford a new card, wasting money on a bad card is not the way to improve your finances.

 

[G J]

As IGPU's get better over time this could be something to leverage though I vaguely remember many years ago there was some software/tech with one of my systems where it would use the IGPU to help the main GPU but the software/support for it sucked.

 

[mark 11:11]

As IGPU's get better over time this could be something to leverage though I vaguely remember many years ago there was some software/tech with one of my systems where it would use the IGPU to help the main GPU but the software/support for it sucked.

someone either yesterday or the day before did in fact post a thread asking about such an arrangement that they were after help/advice on cant remember which part of the forum but yeah literally in the last couple of days this was mentioned

 

[deviation]

Putting aside the whole Frame Generation "fake frames" nonsense, surely if you have the money to buy 2 low end cards, then you could have just bought a better card in the first place?

Mate, that's rather insulting of you to just assume the buyer has a brain cell?

Spoiler

 

[Tinek]

Putting aside the whole Frame Generation "fake frames" nonsense, surely if you have the money to buy 2 low end cards, then you could have just bought a better card in the first place?

If we are talking about the perfectly optimised pinnacle of premium gaming (that's really what their CEO said in public) that is Borderlands 4, where even 5090 struggle, then there's no better card to buy in the first place and multi-gpu could be the only way forward. ;D Because that's clearly what gamers want, considering how well it sold and how many people defend the game.

 

[Gray2233]

Putting aside the whole Frame Generation "fake frames" nonsense, surely if you have the money to buy 2 low end cards, then you could have just bought a better card in the first place?

At least some of the problem is there's a bit of a no mans land performance wise between the 9070xt/5070ti/5080 and the 5090. The first three are very close in performance and yet the 5080 costs around a grand Vs £600-700 for the XT and Ti and an even more massive leap to the 5090.

You could buy two 9070xt's for the cost of some of the 5080's on the market.

 

[deviation]

You could buy two 9070xt's for the cost of some of the 5080's on the market.

Or, you could buy a 9070 and a 9070XT and pair them, just to trigger people

 

[mark 11:11]

if there was a way to combine the resources and performance of a pair of 9070xt's id already have a second one but alas apparently its not to be lol but yeah for the exact reason you mention the vast gulf in between those two tiers with nothing really in said gulf

 

[deviation]

if there was a way to combine the resources and performance of a pair of 9070xt's id already have a second one but alas apparently its not to be lol but yeah for the exact reason you mention the vast gulf in between those two tiers with nothing really in said gulf

Maybe they could bring back those dual GPU's on 1 board, cards again? I forget which AMD one I had back in 2008, but it was a thing back then.

 

[mark 11:11]

Maybe they could bring back those dual GPU's on 1 board, cards again? I forget which AMD one I had back in 2008, but it was a thing back then.

yeah i was litterally thinking of that back when amd said they wernt targetting the higher end this generation i thought to myself that for very little additional outlay they *might have been able to do something with a kinda double 9070xt to kinda vaguely fill that gap a bit for those of us who would have liked a bigger version of hte 9070xt etc. then again this might have eaten into sales of the pro cards perhaps so maybe thats at play also
dunno unfortunately wasnt an option or I would deffo be rocking a pair of 9070xts atm lol

 

[deviation]

yeah i was litterally thinking of that back when amd said they wernt targetting the higher end this generation i thought to myself that for very little additional outlay they *might have been able to do something with a kinda double 9070xt to kinda vaguely fill that gap a bit for those of us who would have liked a bigger version of hte 9070xt etc. then again this might have eaten into sales of the pro cards perhaps so maybe thats at play also
dunno unfortunately wasnt an option or I would deffo be rocking a pair of 9070xts atm lol

Just MacGyver your own
Or buy a fake one off Alinotexpress