Hawaii-based Dual-GPU Graphics Card Codenamed "Vesuvius"

[Steevo]

Why do they waste everyones time with this sort of crap...

FFS, give us some genuinely new GPU's, not re branded, refreshed 3yr old tech packaged in shiny new boxes with stupid names.

So a chip 28% smaller than the Titan and much less in price that performs as well as it isn't an improvement?


If I had a engine that made 28% more horsepower with the same relative fuel consumption as my competitor and cost less to build............ then again if you haven't figured this out by now perhaps you can't understand it. Its beyond your given talents.

 

[LAN_deRf_HA]

I expect 3 things from this. One, the loudest stock graphics card ever made. Two, extreme downclocking, this will be AMD's 590. And three, hopefully a dual GK110 response. Of course both of these are going to show up relatively close to the 20nm launch so fairly unappealing. Maybe Nvidia will play it smart and skip providing a response. Market will be microscopic.

 

[HumanSmoke]

I expect 3 things from this. One, the loudest stock graphics card ever made. Two, extreme downclocking, this will be AMD's 590. And three, hopefully a dual GK110 response. Of course both of these are going to show up relatively close to the 20nm launch so fairly unappealing. Maybe Nvidia will play it smart and skip providing a response. Market will be microscopic.

Can't see this ( a duallie) eventuating - not of the full-fat variety.
A single PCB providing enough power delivery for two hungry GPUs? I'd suggest that the marketing would move from measuring the PCB by layers to centimeters.
Given the lukewarm (at best) reception given the HD 7990 by OEM's and its associated localized heat issues, Crossfire scaling variability, high initial price point, and lack of general availability for some time- presumably due to strict binning, a dual card would seem to pose more minuses than pluses on the PR front.
Also presumably, a dual GPU card should at least approximate the performance of two single cards in CFX...which pretty much means three 8-pin PCI-E power plugs, which negates it's use by OEMs. Your target market then becomes consumers willing to pay more for a lower performing, hotter, and noisier duallie over two separate boards.

 

[Lionheart]

Why do they waste everyones time with this sort of crap...

FFS, give us some genuinely new GPU's, not re branded, refreshed 3yr old tech packaged in shiny new boxes with stupid names.

What the hell are you talking about?

 

[KainXS]

What the hell are you talking about?

don't feed the troll

ignore the troll

 

[Jack1n]

What the hell are you talking about?

Hes talking about the same architecture being used in the "next gen" gpus by both AMD and Nvidia.

 

[scorpion_amd13]

This thing won't be a hair-dryer, it's going to be more like a plasma gun.

Jokes aside, I don't get why they want to make a dual-GPU version. Unless they plan on mounting an all-in-one hybrid cooler (water + ye regular air cooling) on the thing for the reference design. Sure, this thing would be monstrously powerful. But the noise and temperatures would be equally monstrous. Hope they don't pull a GTX 590 "Firecracker", though.

 

[Geofrancis]

Why does everyone jump all over the x2 cards? I have owned the hd4850x2, hd4870x2 and the hd5970 all of them were excellent cards for the price..... Double the power for only a little more cash