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Old January 3rd 18, 02:37 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
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Paul news Jan 2018 23:29:47 GMT in alt.windows7.general, wrote:

Ed Cryer wrote:

The concept of two video cards in one box is new to me.
How would they operate? Or rather co-operate?
I can only think that one card would do the work, and simply use
the added RAM on the other card.

Ed


Each video card keeps a copy of the same textures.
They can work on every second scan line, for example.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalable_Link_Interface

And these guys started it as far as I know.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voodoo2


I had one of those paired with a diamond viper, back in the day.
It made need for speed hot pursuit look frakking sweet! Ran on an AMD
k6/2-350.


Another possible use for multiple gpu based systems is gpu/cpu based
crypto mining. but it's very hardware specific. As in, the mining app
has to support the cards you're using, or you can't do gpu mining.


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