Nearly Half of PCs to be Powered by Multi-GPU Tech in 2012
Jon Peddie Research claims that multi-GPU popularity is set to grow, and multi-GPU systems will account for nearly half of PCs in future.
The research organization predicts that about 50% of all desktop personal computers will be powered by multi-GPU technology such as ATI CrossFire or NVIDIA SLI in 2012. In addition, the multiple graphics cards will see an annual growth rate of 83%, and they’re used in gaming, workstations, and the developing market of GPU-compute.
August 3rd, 2009 at 3:32 pm
50% huh? Sure that will happen. ATI and Nvidia better start building tons of new fabs and fast! I really can’t imagine that many people buying crappy OEM computers that actually have two graphics cards. What was this analyst on when he wrote this report? Dell and HP don’t even have access to the PSU’s that would be needed to pull this off, let alone GPU supply.
August 4th, 2009 at 12:09 am
If ATI/nVidia have access to better fabs that produce 32nm or 45nm chips then power consumption can be reduced. ATI has access to AMD’s fab (AMD bought ATI a couple years back), so with ATI it maybe possible to have dual or quad GPU on a single chip very soon. And that GPU would maybe need 140.
Majority of the power is taken by the the GPU and CPU. Intel makes a new plant every 2 years. Their next fab will produce 32nm dies and 16nm in another 2-3 years. Also you should see a big increase in SSD hard drives. They will reduce the power consumption also.
So with all these factors it is quite possible that HP/Dell can ship machines with dual GPUs.
August 4th, 2009 at 1:32 am
If ATI ran flat out they still wouldn’t be able to come close to making that many GPU’s. ATI and NVidia combined simply don’t have that kinda of production capability.
August 4th, 2009 at 5:01 pm
Nvidia is a fabless company that have their chips produced at TSCM and UMC and possibly at Global foundries looking forward. Nvdia will have no production scaling issues – they outsource production to these companies (-;
August 4th, 2009 at 11:12 pm
This is useless, at least tell us if it’s going to be multi core or multi card… I mean why should people start buying two vgas instead of one?