News Dell and NVIDIA showcase first Quad SLI system

There are already multiple cores on a card - what do you think a pixel shader is? what do you think a vertex shader is? They're each little processors - don't forget a single core CPU is only capable of executing/processing one piece of data at any one time, a GPU can execute/process many pieces of data at any one time.

 

ok fair enough but there has to be a better way than multiple cards
just seems so... backwards

 

You are constrained by size and technology. If you have multiple physical cores on a card they become the size of the Asus 7800 dual cards out there. You have to compensate for power, from the slot and cable, as well as cooling the damn thing. PCB traces, ram etc

It's creating desire for extra card purchases. To NV it doesnt matter to them whether you buy one, two, thirty cards and run them in one, two, or thirty systems. They just see sales. It's like voodoo 2 did for graphics: just demand and desire.

 

I dunno, I think it's a good thing for developers - they've got a rough idea of how fast the next generation will be, give or take a few bits n bobs.

 

hopefully we shall see quad sli motherboards appearing of the next couple of months then. the way that picture looks, there going to be specialy designed cards (the bridges are in a strange place which means us normal sli users, cant just use are existing cards

 

edit: bigz beat me to it

 

http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=195 96 pipes apprently

 

read the article, it's all in there...

 

right, something I may have missed
Would one be able to run one of these on its own in an SLI board? Ive just ordered a PCI-E 8x raid card which kind of means SLI is out the door for the mean time, this could be a nice alternative (if i could figure out how to watercool the damn thing)

 

Wow, sorry to go so off topic, but I didn't know you could get PCI-E 8x RAID cards, don't suppose you could magick me a linky could you please tad? PCI seems so...limited

 

WOW..

I would love this machine, but would NEVER be able to justify the cost. With somethign like that you would need that big monitor bringing the cost closer to 8-10k

 

if anyone missed they are four 7800gtx 512mb

 

HOLY MOTHER OF GOD.....JESUS H CHRIST that is absolutely insane i know its a dell but 4 7800GTX's working together that is the stupid thing since.....well, ever

 

RTFT http://forums.bit-tech.net/showpost.php?p=1147856&postcount=19

 

oops

I guess I tend to not pay much attention to your posts

 

I can't even get 30fps at 1024x768!!!

 

http://www.tomshardware.com/2005/12/14/sneak_preview_of_the_nvidia_quad_gpu_setup/page6.html

This is a sneak peek of Asus 's 7800GT duo X 2 in benches.

THe dell system amazied me. I would like to see its benchmarks.

 

but it's a Dell ffs!

 

Multiple cards is just a marketing trick. they could have easily put 2gpus per pcb.
if someone is going to be spending that much on vid cards and such, why not go with an SLI dual socket Opteron board?
quad 2.6ghz opties ohhhhhh.
that would be the ultimate performer.

 

fix't

This is getting ridiculous now, in July one 6800u was overkill