Future of GPU's - Multi core too?

[Cyber-Mav]

still goes to show that 2 nvidia cores did end up on a single pcb, which shows that the tech was around back then.

question is, who made the cards back in 2004, were they all made by individual manufacturers, like gigabyte, asus, sapphire etc, or do they all come from the gpu maker, nvidia or ati and have the manufacturers like asus, etc slap on thier own cooling solution? if its the first, that manufacturers recieve just the bare gpu and have to slap it on the board themselves then it makes sense that a lot of manufacturers were not willing to go dual card yet, most likly due to drivers/ lack of performance scaling.

 

[helmutcheese]

Nvidia only made REF cards at pre launch, the Vendors all had FAB's to manu cards from scratch back then.

They were supposed to follow guidelines with parts inc Samsung GDDR, certain CAP's, certain size of SMD Resistors etc etc, but some did not and, used other parts and it all went kinda **** up on 7000 series, so Nvidia took over for 8000's with contractors.

Yes Cyber, Asus etc bought a Chipset and put it on their own choose of PCB colour and soldered all parts onto it inc Memory, then wrote bios etc.

 

[Jokester]

Don't think Nvidia have produced cards themselves for years now, they just make the chips and produce the reference design which 3rd parties then mass produce for market. Some of the bigger card OEMs usually end up making their own designs such as Gigabyte and Asus dual core cards, but they had nothing to do with Nvidia.

 

[helmutcheese]

Its still a Nvidia dual core Graphics card

 

[Cyber-Mav]

Its still a Nvidia dual core Graphics card

exactly my point

 

[Jokester]

But it wasn't done by Nvidia, which was the point Richdog was correct in making

 

[FreeStream]

But it wasn't done by Nvidia, which was the point Richdog was correct in making

^^

So nvidia themselves have NOT designed a dual core single PCB card that as come to market yet, whereas ATi have.

 

[jrodga2k5]

to be fair though, 3dfx have done it years ago!
NVidia didnt design the single PCB dual GPU design themselves yet ATi have!
We will defiantely see this as being the future, though I want to see a massive 4GPU Core PCB like the voodoo 5 6000!

 

[mdjmcnally]

Most of the cards are modular, with the difference being how many of the modules are put in.

ie on the new 8800GT/GTS G92 then is the same but more modules in the GTS to give extra performance.

Not sure if would call multi-core but I wouldn't have thought it that hard to do.

 

[HeX]

to be fair though, 3dfx have done it years ago!
NVidia didnt design the single PCB dual GPU design themselves yet ATi have!
We will defiantely see this as being the future, though I want to see a massive 4GPU Core PCB like the voodoo 5 6000!

ATi were the first tho.

Rage Fury MAXX did it before the Voodoo5 did.

Admitadly the Voodoo5 did it a whole lot better as the GPU was designed from the ground up to scale well and commuicate between GPU's efficiently.

 

[Supernaut91]

Personally, at the end of this year i think we will see fewer cards with huge chunky fans and large heat sinks, but possibly inbuilt water cooled blocks. Yes this would probably be a lot more exspensive. I also think we will see multicore GPUS, as well as Intel entering the Graphics Card market.

 

[Richdog]

But it wasn't done by Nvidia, which was the point Richdog was correct in making

That's all I was saying... Nvidia themselves have never designed any of their GPU's as dual-core on a single PCB... the others were done by OEM's. To me there is a difference there... if not to others so be it.