Do You Think nVidia and/or ati would come out w/ dual core gpus?

I'm serious, they came out w/ quad-core cpus, its about time. Let me show you how I would see it work.

Lets take an dual-core version for an 8800gtx would work:

Here's the Basics:

Core 1:

(Specs)

Core: 575MHz

Shader: 1350MHz

Memory: 900MHz at 768mb w/ 384-bit interface (Bandwitdh: 86.4GB/s)

Texture Fill Rate: 36.8 billion per second

Priority (not in order):

Render Meshes (Models, Terrian,etc.):

Render Materials;

Render Textures;

Core 2:

Core: 575MHz

Shader: 1350MHz

Memory: 900MHz at 768mb w/ 384-bit interface (Bandwitdh: 86.4GB/s)

Texture Fill Rate: 36.8 billion per second

Priority (not in order):

Render Shaders;

Render Post - Processing;

Render Physics;

There's probably a million things wrong about this; so its up top you to reply to this thread:D

Do you mean like a 7950 GX2?firefly026

Well, it should be something like sli, but better support and I don't think sli or gx2 work like I said at my first post, not sure.

I may be making this up but I believe I heard the next set of cards from AMD were going to use multiple chips. Not exactly the same thing as multiple cores but very similar.Mossad

Do you mean like a 7950 GX2?firefly026

got there before me.

its basically 2 graphics cards slapped together but its considered the one card with 2 GPUs. my bro has that and its flippin brilliant.

if ure talking 2 GPUs on the one card...there was a voodoo card back in the day tyhat had 2 of them on the one card (2 seperate chips) i think. i think it was the voodoo 5 but im not sure.

if ure talking 2 GPUS on the one die like a core 2 duo.....i dont know. would be interesting to see allright. could definately improve inter GPU communication and perhaps make a technology like sli alot more efficent.

[QUOTE="firefly026"]Do you mean like a 7950 GX2?osan0

got there before me.

its basically 2 graphics cards slapped together but its considered the one card with 2 GPUs. my bro has that and its flippin brilliant.

if ure talking 2 GPUs on the one card...there was a voodoo card back in the day tyhat had 2 of them on the one card (2 seperate chips) i think. i think it was the voodoo 5 but im not sure.

if ure talking 2 GPUS on the one die like a core 2 duo.....i dont know. would be interesting to see allright. could definately improve inter GPU communication and perhaps make a technology like sli alot more efficent.

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/video/display/20070702125023.html

Interesting news article. If I'm reading it correctly (its a little bit confusing so I might be), ATI is planning on offering crossfire systems on a single board. So one board multiple GPUs

And here is a little blurb about the R700 series ATI is putting together.

http://groups.google.com.bz/group/alt.comp.hardware.amd.x86-64/msg/eadfd25f3dcced1b

not to sound like a noob, but what's a die?half-pat92

basically its the whole processor unit. its a small slab of silicon that the processor is on (or etched into..whatever those crazy kida are doing these days :P). a die can have one or many processors on it.

heres a pic of one. this particular die has 4 processors on it

A Processor Die