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The future for GPU's

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Five years from now, what will high end gaming cards look like? Was reading about nVidia white papers and Moore's law on the front page news thread and began wondering.
 
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Five years from now, what will high end gaming cards look like? Was reading about nVidia white papers and Moore's law on the front page news thread and began wondering.
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They will all look green.
 
I believe it's going to head like the thread on front page is stating, Threadripper/Epyc style GPUs all glued together. I don't know the bandwidth on "Infinity Fabric" but AMD may actually have a head start on such a process
 
Same as they do today. The multi GPU package concepts are only for compute.
 
If we get true 7nm parts by 2020 I can say with certainty that cooling solutions will look different as the higher transistor density needs to be dealt with, at least on the enthusiast level. If NVIDIA is still using the same old blower at that point on their 250+ watt parts I won't know what to say...
 
Armenius said:
If we get true 7nm parts by 2020 I can say with certainty that cooling solutions will look different as the higher transistor density needs to be dealt with, at least on the enthusiast level. If NVIDIA is still using the same old blower at that point on their 250+ watt parts I won't know what to say...
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The heat quantity itself won't go-up, only the on-die energy density. This means the only hard part is getting it to the heatsink to be removed form the case.

They already use a vapor chamber to do this on high-end Nvidia FE cards, and case-temperature air is the same temperature as you'd get from an exhaust radiator. So there's no advantage going water there, unless your blower can't keep up (AMD Fury X).

Unless you want to add heat back into the case with an inlet rad, you're just blowing smoke. Blowers do the exact same shit as a closed-loop cooler does. You can move more heat with a multi-fan CLC cooler, but as you can see the 225w cards are doing just fine on a single fan.

Unless you're looking to overvolt, and find that last 5% of performance. Or you're the Neat Freak (TM) type who freak out over a high number like 83C, even though properly-designed processors can run at that temperature for years.
 
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