9800 GTX Tri-SLI

[Stormcrow]

The point of diminishing returns, just like adding more cores to a CPU. The jump for single to dual core processing was tremendous, from dual to quad not so much. Having all that power is only going to effect synthetic benchmarks, hell the standard LCD monitor can't display over 60 frames per second anyway so it makes having 4 graphics processors pretty moot. Only time they'll be needed is in like 2-3 years when games really start to tax them to the limit, and by then of course there will be something way better out.

[Yellowhello]

Originally Posted by polobunny

Where are you seeing this?

Oops, I guess it was 9800GX2 Quad-SLI and 9800GTX Tri-SLI. X|

[polobunny]

Originally Posted by Yellowhello

Oops, I guess it was 9800GX2 Quad-SLI and 9800GTX Tri-SLI. X|

And it's not even 1 point. :P

[Parker]

Originally Posted by Yellowhello

Oops, I guess it was 9800GX2 Quad-SLI and 9800GTX Tri-SLI. X|

Yea, but 31 point difference Nate

IMO, Tri-SLI isn't worth it.

[RA1D]

and just like with any new tech, the drivers will catch up and make use of the hardware. personally, i'm find it exciting that SLI is available.

[Yellowhello]

Originally Posted by Parker

Yea, but 31 point difference Nate

Dangit, I'm blind today. Ignore the dunce until further notice.

[Sumgai]

Man, I wish I could find the post but I'm at work atm...But there's an editorial out there (on bit-tech I think) and many others I'm sure; discussing current GPU progression. There is SO much more potential in our graphics cards than most of us realize. The article compared the latest PC graphics with the Xbox 360, which has the equivilant of a 7800 series card. Given the obvious potential we see with the console market just think of how much raw processing power our computers have at hand. But in the end the bottom line wins out and the giants of the industry would rather release new cards and get our cash than persue development of current generation hardware. It's just crazy to think that relatively speaking, a current 8800GT has the processing potential to run any current game out now at the highest settings if developers were given the time to exhaust the product's full potential.

[polobunny]

Originally Posted by Sumgai

Man, I wish I could find the post but I'm at work atm...But there's an editorial out there (on bit-tech I think) and many others I'm sure; discussing current GPU progression. There is SO much more potential in our graphics cards than most of us realize. The article compared the latest PC graphics with the Xbox 360, which has the equivilant of a 7800 series card. Given the obvious potential we see with the console market just think of how much raw processing power our computers have at hand. But in the end the bottom line wins out and the giants of the industry would rather release new cards and get our cash than persue development of current generation hardware. It's just crazy to think that relatively speaking, a current 8800GT has the processing potential to run any current game out now at the highest settings if developers were given the time to exhaust the product's full potential.

Yup, it's nothing new really. PC games are hardly optimized when comparing to console games, and that's for the sake of devs I guess. It would be very long and tedious to optimize games more while keeping a certain level of compatibility with every PC component out there, something you don't have to do when you run software on a console exclusively.
There's no difference in hardware over a Playstation 3 and the other Playstation 3 (other than bigger HD and whatnot, nothing that affects processing power per se) or an Xbox 360 and another.