Is GPU Stacking The Answer To All Your Performance Concerns?

[Guest]

Kfar Netter (Israel) - Sure, you may have heard about SLI and Crossfire and you may run up to four graphics chips in your PC.

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[cah027]

Looks like a lot of new tech will be coming our way in the next couple years!

 

[homerdog]

This is very interesting.

 

[bloodymaze]

Oh my gee -- 85% - 95% increase in performance? I love it. Crysis = PWNED! lol -- GOOD NEWS FOR THE CONSUMER I LOVE IT!

 

[seatrotter]

Let's just hope that standards come up soon to allow just one interface to handle any kind of GPGPU hardware. This'll pave a way for developers to start accommodating such features (since they wouldn't be concerned about vendor-specific interface). Also, it will encourage and help accelerate development of GPGPU hardwares.

 

[Guest]

Israel is on the map

 

[homerdog]

^I don't get what you're trying to say, but for what it's worth it was Intel's Israeli design team that built the Core architecture.

 

[Mr_Man]

I wonder what this will mean for manufacturers making high end and low end cards. If you could have 5 8800GT's scaling linearly, that would beat even 2 GTX 280's, and cost less, too. Of course, you'd have to have a large case and 5 PCI-Express ports.

 

[homerdog]

I wonder what this will mean for manufacturers making high end and low end cards. If you could have 5 8800GT's scaling linearly, that would beat even 2 GTX 280's, and cost less, too. Of course, you'd have to have a large case and 5 PCI-Express ports.

What's more interesting is their claim of application-independent scaling. Two 8800GTs would be nearly unstoppable (even in Crysis) if they scaled linearly across the board.

 

[royalcrown]

this is BS.

 

[Luscious]

It's been a long time since I've heard the word, but if RISC hardware is the secret to multi-GPU performance then the ODM's will be looking at radical board designs. Makes perfect sense though when you think about it - when scaling is done in hardware, it would allow performance level increases across the spectrum.

I imagine 4 4870x2 cards humming away with 8 GPU's and 8GB of ddr5 memory would only be a start of things to come if this technology becomes mainstream.

Now, if we could use that power for something more useful than Crysis... that would be the real computing achievement.

 

[homerdog]

Now, if we could use that power for something more useful than Crysis... that would be the real computing achievement.

Crysis Warhead!!! 😀

 

[V8VENOM]

Agreed, this is BS.

1. Goto their web site, click on "How it Works" and laugh.
2. When was the last time we got revolutionary technology out of Israel? That Intel, nVidia, and AMD/ATI completely missed?
3. Why does Tom's print this stuff, there is NO substances behind this.

 

[homerdog]

Agreed, this is BS.

1. Goto their web site, click on "How it Works" and laugh.

I wouldn't dismiss it so quickly, Intel has invested in LucidLogix.

2. When was the last time we got revolutionary technology out of Israel? That Intel, nVidia, and AMD/ATI completely missed?

^I don't get what you're trying to say, but for what it's worth it was Intel's Israeli design team that built the Core architecture.