The History Of Dual GPU Graphics Cards - Hardware Legends Ep5

Did someone say seafood buffet? When and where? LETS DO THIS!

My 6990 still sees some action 😎 I bought 4 in 2011 for mining and sold 3 of them a few years later.

Underrated series! Hope this takes off!

Yay! Love ya, Kevin! Thanks for the video!

Great to see you back Kevin

gotta love the ATI Ruby And Sapphire girls box arts...

AMD still makes dual GPUs. One of their Radeon Pro cards is a dual GPU card. Then there’s the dual Vega cards for the Mac Pro Workstation.

Thanks for doing these Kev, always expanding my knowledge cause of you and this series.

RIP brother.

Been waiting for this one! Thank's Kevin!

dual gpu cards will make a comeback in the form of chiplets, but it will be seen as a monolithic die by windows.

R.i.p. kevin

I used to run two R9 295x2's. Some of the best years of my PC gaming life.

R.I.P Kevin thank you for the awesome tech videos !!

G'day Kevin, Another Awesome Hardware Legends, Teddy 🐻💻 did an Amazing job digging up the History of Dual Graphics cards while you were holidaying in Vietnam, Thanks so much for the effort you both put into the Hardware Legends videos, it is great to learn the history of these Awesome products

nice trip down memory lane.... cheers

the Vega II Duo on the new Mac Pro is insane

Great great video!! Dont know why i didnt saw it before 😍

Awesome vid Kev. always enjoy the content. Is it pronounced JEWELL GPU or Dew'uaLL GPU .lol. The PowerVR Heracles was the 1st GPU I ever bought. That was back when overclocking was done through the motherboard with jumper pins. The Power VR Hercules Prophet 4500 was based on the KYRO II and had tile based rendering which GPU's like NVIDIA's and AMD use today. Imagination Technologies PowerVR was the 1st to bring Ray Tracing to the consumer market. Nvidia actually liscenced the technology from IMG Tech. PowerVR. What always killed me was that the memory never stacked with dual GPU cards or using SLI or CFX, even with the physical memory being on the card or cards. Unless using a server OS with editing programs that support memory stacking. I've seen mods out there to get it working with limited success. NVIDIA was supposed to have this ability with there new cards but, i've not seen any follow up on that note.. With a 3.6GHz Q6600 (GO) I had 2 GTX 260 core 216's. Since they had the extra cores and 896MB's of V-ram. But, didn't know that the V-ram didn't stack. I bought dual cards when x2 cards were popular. Since the memory didn't stack. It didn't interest me anymore. Until I found 2 1GB GDDR5 GTS 450's for $100. I figured with 1 GB of GDDR5 it would be OK with new games. When i put these 2 cards in combo with the 3770K. I was playing all my games at 1080p 60fps. Of course they were games like Battlefield 4, GTAV, Sniper Elite 3,4 and Nazi Zombie Army 2,3. Plus many other supported games. It seemed like every game i played supported SLI. I guess i was lucky with that. Now i could see using SLI with 2 2070 supers. It puts the 2080ti to shame on games that run SLI. Bryan over at TYC did a vid about SLI recently with 2 2070 super's. He actually got ahold of a dual 780ti somehow. That is a rare card.

You missed a few dual GPU cards, like the Pro Duo Polaris with 32GB of VRAM, and at least two different Dual GPU cards by Asus featuring Dual GTX760 GPUs (Or it may have been Dual GTX750Ti's, I cannot remember as it was a while ago) or Dual GTX960 GPUs.....that's just off the top of my head, and I've not been interested in PCs that long, I am sure that theres others you may have missed too... But, thanks for the video :) You covered a lot of interesting GPUs Edit: Right, the first Asus GPU to check out, is the MARS GTX760, it uses 2x GTX760 GPUs on a single PCB, it's a dual-slot card and outperforms the GTX780Ti