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CryoAurora t1_itnmyi0 wrote

Welcome to the world of crypto mining type setups just to play games.

They burn through connectors in mining.

Now desktop units by themselves are pulling as much as multiple GPUs used to.

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JangoDarkSaber t1_itorgff wrote

It was always the natural conclusion of things. Either the architecture gets significantly more efficient or the cards get significantly larger/ more power hungry.

Architecture improvements alone were never enough to quell the thirst for faster processing.

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alc4pwned t1_itpyu12 wrote

Nothing new really. SLI/Crossfire setups used to be common. And then there were the cards like the R9 295X2 which had two GPUs on the same card.

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RRoyale57 t1_itrpexj wrote

I still remember when the HD4870X2 came out

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