single video card dual chip

[sonoma1993]

How come ati nor nvidia havent brought out a video card that has dual gpu on it that'll work with any ol pci express and/or agp motherboards?? I know gigabyte i think it is that has a videocard that has a dual gpu on it but doesnt it require an sli board from gigabyte to work correctly? 3dfx had the voodoo 5500 with 2 gpu and the 6000 4 gpu working correctly for the most part, and they worked in the agp slot. no need to have a certain motherboard to get sli to work, but 3dfx is long gone now.

 

[keeleysam]

Video cards have become CPU limited.

 

[erwos]

Someone's forgotten about the Rage MAXX and the Quadro2 NVS, I see.

-Erwos

 

[lifeguard1999]

Asus Dual 7800 GT

 

[ElFenix]

they're usually not needed. 3dfx did it because they bet that .18 micron fabbing wouldn't be available, so to cram a competitive number of GPU transistors (Read: processing power) onto a board they needed to use 2 chips fabbed at .25. unfortunately for them, nvidia's gamble on .18 paid off, and the geforce came out just fine (a few months before the V5, iirc).

well, that and the voodoo 5 was little more than a voodoo 3 with 32 bit color and the t buffer. reports said that the voodoo 3 itself was just voodoo2 sli'd in a single chip.