Summary

If one GPU is good, then surely two GPUs are good-er?

Also, when can we do that again?

Theoretically, this would double your rendering might, but in practice the boost was never so linear.

Old GeForce 7950 GT X2 Multi GPU card

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Also, performance scaling made the cost-to-performance calculation untenable for most people.

A third card or a fourth would diminish returns even more.

In many cases, that fourth card would literally be doing nothing!

Apple M1, M1 Pro, M1 Max, and M1 Ultra die sizes compared

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Even better, there’s no need for software developers to take this into account.

The GPUs don’t have to be the same model or even the same brand!

Multi-Chip GPUs Are Coming!

In August 2022 I wrote thatMulti-Chip Module (MCM) GPUs Could Be the Future of Graphics.