The next logical step of the current GPU development
We'll soon be plugging the motherboard into the GPU instead of the other way around.
Entirely new form factors to accommodate the ever increasingly large GPUs.
this post was submitted on 03 Jan 2025
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I've been surprised at the lack of socketed GPUs ever since AMD and ATI merged.
I would love to have dual-socket motherboard with an Epyc in one socket and a Radeon in the other.
The issue with that design is that the PCIe standard would be replaced with something proprietary.
It would be connected via Infinity Fabric, just like Epyc CPUs in dual-socket boards, as well as the interconnect between CPU and GPU chiplets in APUs, already are. Why would that be bad?
I'm not too well-versed with server-grade hardware but my concern is that it would end up somewhat like Intel's (consumer) CPU sockets: Changing every 2 years to ensure you need to purchase new motherboards when upgrading.
Meanwhile, my PC is smaller than it's ever been even with the largest GPU I've ever owned.
This statement is true for everyone who bought their first PC this year.
I think you slipped a digit or two, there. The original IBM PC was released in 1981, can't nothing on the PC side be older than that. It definitely wasn't 1967.
In 1967, state of the art was something like the IBM System 360:
There used to be another image but I replaced it and forgot to change the date. Historical accuracy is beyond the scope of this meme, but I'll fix it anyway.
I can hear that room.
All that hardware, and what for? So that you can have slightly better reflections in whatever AAAA microtransaction slop you've paid 80 bucks for?
Unless you're doing 3d animation there is really no need to have a jet engine installed in your PC.
We’re long past that point, its now so that game studios can put even less effort into optimisation and release games that look and perform worse than games from 5 years ago despite much more powerful hardware!
Efficient heating, you can play AAA games on your space heater
Shit, my 1060 still manages almost all games. Running Cyberpunk on medium right now. It might not be as pretty as it can be, but it sure ain't ugly.
For locally hosted LLMs maybe? They eat a ton of VRAM.
I've always wanted to go from a shitty pre-built machine to a giant room sized computer that need to be sitting in a foot of water after watching Serial Experiments: Lain.
Somehow I knew how your comment ended by just reading the first line.
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At the rate graphics cards are growing, we should just start putting RAM, disk, and CPU slots on them
Umm.. We're doing that with Cpu already and they're exorbitantly priced. Nvidia already has a sort of monopoly, don't give em ideas.
I’ve seen one with M.2 slots, no jokes
If you count cloud computing we are already there. It's kinda why gpus are so expensive along with just burning electricity on stupid mining. Hell it would have been better if crypto bullshit coins would have been tied to folding@home at least all the burned compute time would have gone to something at least.
I'm predicting GPU units that are mounted outside the case.
External GPU's do indeed exist but at the moment they're still kind of crap compared to a full PCI-E bus.
Depends on the connection. OCuLink-2 is straight up a PCIe 4.0 8x connection. Which is more than enough for a GPU
With Mac and steam OS gathering support, wonder when we get a universal external cards
We have, thunderbolt and oculink have existed for a long time, but macOS on M processors never added egpu support
Like OP said
universal? How would drivers work? Would temple os have support?
Man, that Gateway brings back memories... I've had ine just like that, including speakers, and I used to play the shit out of Heroes of Might and Magic II and Sim City 2000 on it. I still have the HDD. I think I'll spin up a Win98 instance in VMWare and copy over my saved games there when the kids are asleep
My first computer was like the 1981 one, even had two floppy drives like that - it meant you could have your program disk in one and save your work in the orher. The monitor had orange type rather than the usual green. Fancy. I got it second hand in 1984.
Heh, the same here, but with the usual green screen. A few years later, I took out my old PC to replay my favourite - F-19 Stealth Fighter. Found, however, that my MS-DOS 5.25" floppy, which needed to be loaded in Drive A, didn't work. Here was my setup.
Perfect, no notes.
Not enough RGB
It's a dark room for 200% immersion
I just find it nifty that I can slide in a graphics card and use it as an add-on processor, just like the Amigas of old did, and add capacity for some tasks even when the CPU is already at 100% doing something else entirely. Just love hearing the sound of all fans spinning up at the same time.
They've always had those big rooms...
At one point it was walls and walls of PS3's all linked up together, there's no reason to be surprised they're doing it with graphics cards, when they used PS3s it was just because it was the cheapest GPUs at the time.
That's just silly.
In the last image the PC would be SFF due to having an external GPU. 😉
No, it will be an ultrabook or something as all the processors is stored in the cable tangle
I believe the last one, 2026,is a quantum GPU capable of viewing alternate dimensions.
Horseshoe theory is real.