4 GPU Card

[Ryan Leech]

D you think we will ever see a quad-gpu card? I know currently, 4-way SLI/crossfire drivers are a mess and actually yield less performance than 3-way, but maybe in the future there will be a need for more power than two or three gpus can provide. 

 

Nvidia>ATI

[Norwegiantweaker]

Lol. that looks epic. but nothanks. ill stick with 1 card. immagine if one ting in there broke down.. you would be broke immediately

[heineygoat]

No. I doubt the PCI-e will ever have enough bandwidth. By the time PCI-e has enough bandwidth for 4 of the current gen GPU's, there will be a single GPU successor anyway, leaving no incentive to make the said 4 GPU card.

[Norwegiantweaker]

No. I doubt the PCI-e will ever have enough bandwidth. By the time PCI-e has enough bandwidth for 4 of the current gen GPU's, there will be a single GPU successor anyway, leaving no incentive to make the said 4 GPU card.

but then said GPU would be up to par.

[Sarcasm]

My single GPU card is cutting it close inside my case already...

 

Not to mention I think 8 power connectors sticking out of it would look butt ugly.

[AlwaysFSX]

What the fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck

O_O

[piplupgao]

There is already a tesla card (I think) with 4 gpus

[Imabigmac]

Cooling that would be fun. 

[A10-FTW]

as far as i know, they do exist the real 3xGPU single card (obviously from AMD)  B)

 

but the never come to the market because technology move so fast, that by the end when the card is ready

 

a new 1xGPU already have the power of 2xGPU (essentially speaking, no longer makes sense to focus on it)

 

 

 

still, they easy may be a 4xGPU single card in some drawer on the AMD labs

 

(the picture is fake by the way, and nvidia is way way way far of this) 

[Mentalguy]

There is already a tesla card (I think) with 4 gpus

not tesla, http://www.nvidia.com/object/grid-boards.html

[Mentalguy]

as far as i know, they do exist the real 3xGPU single card (obviously from AMD)  B)

 

but the never come to the market because technology move so fast, that by the end when the card is ready

 

a new 1xGPU already have the power of 2xGPU (essentially speaking, no longer makes sense to focus on it)

 

 

 

still, they easy may be a 4xGPU single card in some drawer on the AMD labs

 

(the picture is fake by the way, and nvidia is way way way far of this) 

I'd be thinking nvidia would be the first, cuz they already have one.

[A10-FTW]

I'd be thinking nvidia would be the first, cuz they already have one.

AMD already have a 3xGPU from the HD 3000

 

(5 generations have passed, and the keep this things very close to they chest) 

[Judahnator]

One of the Nvidia grid cards has 4x gpu's on one pcb

[Mentalguy]

AMD already have a 3xGPU from the HD 3000

 

(5 generations have passed, and the keep this things very close to they chest) 

But, Nvidia is already manufacturing one.

[hiyayhi]

There is already a tesla card (I think) with 4 gpus

As far as I can find, that doesn't exist. They do however have *I think* a board with two GK110 chips for the Nvidia Grid technology.

 

Even if Nvidia brought out a 4 chip tesla it would be for servers that live in what is essentially a wind tunnel.

 

Edit: There is a board with 4 GK 107 chips on it that is built for Nvidia Grid.

[heineygoat]

but then said GPU would be up to par.

u wot m8?

[Mentalguy]

As far as I can find, that doesn't exist. They do however have *I think* a board with two GK110 chips for the Nvidia Grid technology.

 

Even if Nvidia brought out a 4 chip tesla it would be for servers that live in what is essentially a wind tunnel.

4 gk107s on one board http://www.nvidia.com/object/grid-boards.html

[hiyayhi]

4 gk107s on one board http://www.nvidia.com/object/grid-boards.html

Yeh, I found that after I posted and forgot to edit my post, I shall do it now.

I was correct about it being designed to run in a server that is basically a wind tunnel.

[Mentalguy]

Yeh, I found that after I posted and forgot to edit my post, I shall do it now.

I was correct about it being designed to run in a server that is basically a wind tunnel.

They are only gk107s, not that hard to cool

[hiyayhi]

They are only gk107s, not that hard to cool

hmm, I didn't realise. I thought they were GK 104s. The other cards that go in the Grid are GK110's, I immediately assumed that the 4 on a board was GK 104's. My bad, thanks for pointing that out.

[-rascal-]

Picture fail.

A single GTX 295 was a dual-GPU card. Having four GTX 295's together would mean eight GPUs.

[Ryan Leech]

Picture fail.

A single GTX 295 was a dual-GPU card. Having four GTX 295's together would mean eight GPUs.

Wrong, a GTX 295 has two pcb's with one gpu on each pcb, meaning 4 gpus

[-rascal-]

Wrong, a GTX 295 has two pcb's with one gpu on each pcb, meaning 4 gpus

 

Oh Holy crap! I totally forgot!

Mind = blown.

 

 

EDIT:

Wait a minute...Wait a god damn minute! stop mind-fooking me!!

GTX 295's came in Single-PCBs...

 

Even the GTX 295 I had owned back in the day was a single-PCB card, not a dual-PCB.

 

Here:

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/graphics/2009/08/10/gainward-single-pcb-gtx-295-review/

 

And here:

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Mushkin/GTX_295_Single_PCB/3.html

[flibberdipper]

I would take one. Too bad my eyebrows would probably burn off because of how much faster it would be than the pooled processing power of all my computers combined.

[Ryan Leech]

Oh Holy crap! I totally forgot!

Mind = blown.

 

 

EDIT:

Wait a minute...Wait a god damn minute! stop mind-fooking me!!

GTX 295's came in Single-PCBs...

 

Even the GTX 295 I had owned back in the day was a single-PCB card, not a dual-PCB.

 

Here:

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/graphics/2009/08/10/gainward-single-pcb-gtx-295-review/

 

And here:

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Mushkin/GTX_295_Single_PCB/3.html

If you look at this 295x4, on the top, you can see that it is the dual pcb version because of the semi-circle intake at the rear of the card. This means that it has 4 gpu's, not 8.