NVIDIA Working on GK110-based Dual-GPU Graphics Card?

by btarunr Friday, August 23rd 2013 Discuss (17 Comments)GeForce GTX 295 showed that its possible to place two GPUs with ludicrously high pin-counts next to each other on a single PCB, and if you get a handle over their thermals, even deploy a 2-slot cooling solution. NVIDIA might be motivated to create such a dual-GPU graphics card based on its top-end GK110 chip, to counter AMD's upcoming "Volcanic Islands" GPU family, or so claims a VideoCardz report, citing sources.


The chips on the card needn't be configured, or even clocked like a GTX Titan. The GTX 780 features just 2,304 of the chip's 2,880 CUDA cores, for example. Speaking of 2,880 CUDA cores, the prospect of NVIDIA developing a single-GPU GeForce product with all streaming multiprocessors on the GK110 enabled, the so-called "Titan Ultra," isn't dead. NVIDIA could turn its attention to such a card if it finds AMD's R9 2xxx within its grasp.
NVIDIA Working on GK110-based Dual-GPU Graphics Card? | techPowerUp

Muy buenas,

Parece que Nvida podría estar planteándose una tarjeta dual basada en el chip GK110 (La GPU de la GTX Titan y GTX 780).

Recordemos que ya existe una dual con chip GK104, la GTX 690 (Esta GPU la montan las GTX 680 y la serie 7 desde la GTX 770 inclusive hacia abajo).

Es una opción interesante para el que no quiera hacer SLI, ya que te evitas los engorros de una configuración multi-tarjeta, aunque el rendimiento es algo inferior debido a que solo se usa un puerto PCI-E y las GPUs suelen ir relajadas de frecuencias para que no se caliente más de la cuenta el PCB.

Eso sí, 1000 pavos como 1000 soles no se los quita nadie... ojalá me equivoque.

Un saludo