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Should we be able to upgrade GPU?

Or start putting a pair of GPU's on a card again.
This is one of my old dual gpu cards from the mid/late 90's I think.
edit: just looked it up, came out in 2000 for $1299. Basically the same cost as a 5090 today.
edit2: was curious about my Newtek Video Toaster 4000 video card, I paid $2,400 for it in 1993 which is $5,276 in today's money, that's just crazy.

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My Video Toaster system
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Zepher said:
Or start putting a pair of GPU's on a card again.
This is one of my old dual gpu cards from the mid/late 90's I think.
edit: just looked it up, came out in 2000 for $1299. Basically the same cost as a 5090 today.
edit2: was curious about my Newtek Video Toaster 4000 video card, I paid $2,400 for it in 1993 which is $5,276 in today's money, that's just crazy.

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My Video Toaster system
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what's the ship on the screen from?
 
we already can swap the gpu. its not like we can swap the dies on cpus....
 
There would be no real gains to it being upgradable. Like removing the chip itself and putting a new one on. You would be stuck in the same series so like at best you would be able to go to the ti version from whatever one you are on. And then you would be trying to buy them based on bins so you can bet the price will go up for the better bin lots.

And half y'all can't plug in the power connector, probably shouldn't be messing with the gpu core itself.

Oh and just wait for that to trash the used market, when all the brand new cards get a used die put on them so it 'looks' new.

No honestly, it is fine how it is IMO.
 
The amount of bandwith GPU soldered ram use versus CPU-motherboard, make it sound like there is possible technical reason behind it, and recently the level of power-cooling at the high end that can handled.

They make a giant amount of work to get the ram physically closer and closer, to go and introduce all those extra connectors and interfaces ?

Maybe once the tech and memory controller-memory chips stay stagnant long enough (like rdna2-3-4 could have been ?) or that gddr7 change how ram capacity get up, with a more per module instead or more module, that could start to be interesting, but for a long time you would have needed a socket-memory upgrade anyway, wanted a hdmi-dp-pcie connector update even if you did not need it, tech around the die was changing fast, how many times no socket change between 3-4 years of GPU advancement would have been that interesting/possible ?

Maybe we will enter a world in which

PCi 5.0 x16 will be enough for 3-4 gpu gen.
GDRR7 stantard that go over time from 2GB to 8GB per module using a similar compatible pin interface.
power management-cooling that cannot go higher if they wanted, cooler tech that stagnate.
DP 2.0/HDMI 2.1 that is enough for 3-4 gpu gen

But even if all that make it tempting, what the impact on memory bandwith-latency we would be talking about ? How much more would it cost to buy the first entry card ?
 
Randall Stephens said:
what's the ship on the screen from?
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pendragon1 said:
looks like a pic from a screen saver.
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Smoblikat said:
Diversity, an old old wooden ship used during civil war times.
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That was a prebuilt model in Lightwave 3D. That was a single frame render
I also had my Amiga hooked to my TV so I could see the renders on a larger screen.
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The list of gear in this pic:
JVC XL-Z555 CD Player (have this one in its box somewhere)
Sony TC-WR535 Dual Cassette Deck
Sony AVR (can't recall the model)
Sony Laserdisc Player
JVC HR-S6700U Super VHS Deck (still have this one but needs work)
This was the last model from JVC that had lots of physical buttons and knobs, the subsequent models had limited buttons and features, and they were only accessible with a remote.
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I just realized that the deck I have here in the garage that I tried fixing a couple of weeks ago is the same one in the pic above.
It's from 1993-95, so 30+ years old.
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