Will dual-die cards ever come back?

[da na]

As the title says. I don't mean having multiple physical cards, I mean having one card with multiple GPUs. AMD made a lot of them (called [model] x2),  and NVIDIA has made a few too, the GTX x90 cards that they made featured two GPUs. (As a firsthand user of a 4870 x2 I speak from experience for the next ones.) Of course, these had issues: very hot. Very very hot. Another issue is that in non crossfire/sli supported titles they ran with the performance of just one of the dies. Plus they required an extra little ASIC chip to sync the dies, consuming more power and making more heat.

TL;DR is there a possibility for a non-crossfire/sli dual GPU?

As AMD said in 2008: "The future is fusion."

[CommanderAlex]

I highly doubt it, as then it would be SLI/Crossfire territory and we all know that for the average gamer, this technology is dead. The only thing I can think of is maybe putting two dies on the same substrate, then there wouldn't be that bad of an issue, just power draw and heat that needs to be removed from the GPU. 

[FakeFBI]

2 minutes ago, wat3rmelon_man2 said:

As the title says. I don't mean having multiple physical cards, I mean having one card with multiple GPUs. AMD made a lot of them (called [model] x2),  and NVIDIA has made a few too, the GTX x90 cards that they made featured two GPUs. (As a firsthand user of a 4870 x2 I speak from experience for the next ones.) Of course, these had issues: very hot. Very very hot. Another issue is that in non crossfire/sli supported titles they ran with the performance of just one of the dies. Plus they required an extra little ASIC chip to sync the dies, consuming more power and making more heat.

TL;DR is there a possibility for a non-crossfire/sli dual GPU?

As AMD said in 2008: "The future is fusion."

its always you who has the wierd questions

[da na]

1 minute ago, FakeFBI said:

its always you who has the wierd questions

pretty much

[Zando_]

AMD still makes them. In the gaming space Crossfire/SLI are pretty much dead due to how powerful single cards have become, but for workstation stuff there's dual GPU cards for really hefty compute loads. AMD currently has the Radeon Pro Vega II Duo (Apple carries em here: https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MW732AM/A/radeon-pro-vega-ii-duo-mpx-module, I haven't seen any other variants in the wild), which is 2 64CU Vega II GPUs with 32GB HBM2 each on the same card. The Mac Pro 7,1 can handle 2 of those if you have the dough, making for 256CU of compute power with 128GB VRAM. I don't know if there's dual quadro cards or not on Nvidia's side. 

[da na]

2 minutes ago, Zando Bob said:

AMD still makes them. In the gaming space Crossfire/SLI are pretty much dead due to how powerful single cards have become, but for workstation stuff there's dual GPU cards for really hefty compute loads. AMD currently has the Radeon Pro Vega II Duo (Apple carries em here: https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MW732AM/A/radeon-pro-vega-ii-duo-mpx-module, I haven't seen any other variants in the wild), which is 2 64CU Vega II GPUs with 32GB HBM2 each on the same card. The Mac Pro 7,1 can handle 2 of those if you have the dough, making for 256CU of compute power with 128GB VRAM. I don't know if there's dual quadro cards or not on Nvidia's side. 

Yeah, for CAD/workstation/server applications many GPUs are still dual, NVIDIA made a bunch of Tesla cards that had 4 GPUs on one card! 

[Levent]

As gaming cards? Most likely not, but for computational purposes I don't see why not.

[PianoPlayer88Key]

I wonder if chiplet designs would be what replaces SLI / Crossfire....