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The Future of Video Cards

Unread postPosted: Fri Sep 02, 2016 10:07 am
by TheOldDessauer
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Re: The Future of Video Cards

Unread postPosted: Fri Sep 02, 2016 10:10 am
by BNSFdude
I mean the new pascal cards still work with SLI, as if you'll need it.

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Unread postPosted: Fri Sep 02, 2016 10:15 am
by TheOldDessauer
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Unread postPosted: Fri Sep 02, 2016 5:56 pm
by peterhayes
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With only about 300K users worldwide I'd say it was pretty dead already? !*roll-laugh*! (12,000,000 video cards sold in 2014)
Too difficult to set up and dubious performance and eye candy gains over a single card?
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Re: The Future of Video Cards

Unread postPosted: Sat Sep 03, 2016 3:43 am
by JPS2K5
I'm running 4K with 2x GTX 1080 in SLI. I need it in some cases to maintain 60fps and for the lowest frametime. I'm one of those people that actually sees a difference between 60fps and 30fps (It makes me dizzy).

Re: The Future of Video Cards

Unread postPosted: Sat Sep 03, 2016 7:45 am
by PamBrooker
I think its a toss up.. At some point, I highly doubt you'll need SLI. I have a card coming later today that has four hdmi ports on the back of it and supports three screens ( for one picture ). SLI was a step in the right direction, but i think its days are numbered.. NVidia has other plans..

Currently, the second most powerful supercomputer in the world (Titan ) uses all NVidia GPU's to accelerate processing. What this says, is that computing is on the doorstep of entering a completely new realm that will make the computers we have now days about as obsolete as a horse and buggy. I wont speculate on the science fiction world of tommorrow with this new technology, but it's going to be able to encompass everything we do now, and a whole lot more, from our desks at home, including our games..

For some this will be a sad thing. For others it'll be another step into the future ( imagine your taxes done in five seconds ).

Think about it.. This thing below is using Graphics cards to deliver 13.7 petaflops ( billions of calculations per second ) of performance..

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