Citace:
At this point it's one of those quietly whispered secrets that AMD's next generation graphics architecture is going to centre around a dual-chip offering for the high-end, with R700 likely comprising two discrete GPU dice.
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Huddy says that AMD simply aren't interested in building large monolithic GPUs any more, instead preferring to scale their offerings via multi-GPU. Speaking about a future where GPUs are built on process nodes approaching 22nm and beyond, limitations because of the process start to encroach on how the IHVs build their chips. Huddy argues that chip size and pad count and one of the biggest things the GPG architects are considering going forward, with no real chance of 512-bit external memory buses on tiny chips.
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We can't help but think that the push to thinking about multiple hardware components contributing to rendering is a basic tenet of the industry going forward for graphics, and that it'll occur not just at AMD.
