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Post by rampancy on Aug 6, 2006 17:39:54 GMT
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Post by aquamac on Aug 6, 2006 18:26:24 GMT
Wow Rampancy,
Now that's what you call a graphics setup!!!! Wish Apple did SLi. Wonder if the new Mac pros will ever get this feature. That has got to be some near record, 82000 3d Marks, 5.2 Gig Core Duo, Wow!
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racerblur
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Macs make nice pets!
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Post by racerblur on Aug 11, 2006 11:37:45 GMT
At work we have a lot Pro applications that getting their rendering computations straight from the GPU (yeah, we run Nvidia Quadros 3000, 4000 and 4500 as this required for our Pro Apps like Digital Fusion, Assimilate Scratch and Discreet's Lustre). Our color corrector uses GPU to do real time tracking and compositing etc..etc.. and the Programmer was here the other day and I asked how much more performance can we expect from SLi? He said almost none, mainly games benefit -- balancing real time Pro applications is a lot more creditical than on Gaming and the performance boost even in gaming is barely 30% gain if that much. Having a real on board multi GPU is a better solution and having multicore GPU is and even better solution than trying to hack multiple cards to work together -- he said it's like trying to get two motherboards to work together... it will work, but won't work well... there will be a single card solutions coming from Nvidia for professional space and of course the gaming space... new multi-core GPUs that will really amaze you... think less power, less heat and a lot more computing power... GPUs are so d**n powerful these days (a lot more powerful than the current CPUs, a lot of time the CPU is there just for I/O... Maybe that's why AMD bought out ATI....
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Post by rampancy on Aug 12, 2006 6:54:36 GMT
Yes, it's most likely why Apple didn't put SLI in the Mac Pro - I'm sure they probably had one-off prototypes with SLI enabled and realized that the performance gain wasn't worth the extra cost. Apple did something similar with the B&W G3's. According to what I read once, Apple studied AGP 1x and figured that a high-speed PCI slot would provide roughly 90% of the performance for a fraction of the cost and engineering effort to put in a genuine AGP slot.
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