Pemalite said:
Conina said:
And "only" 1% of Steam? It took a long time to get the GTX 980 to reach 1%. Do you think Multi-GPU-setups are as popular as this card?
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So really, what you are comparing is hundreds of potentially different paired GPU's against a single GPU?
SLI/Crossfire isn't really tied to any specific GPU... That technology has been around since 1998 starting with SLI Voodoo 2's and ATI a year later releasing the Dual-GPU single card Rage Fury Maxx. It wasn't untill the Radeon x8xx series and nVdia's 6000 series did SLI Crossfire become a staple technology.
Since that time we have had almost a dozen GPU generation releases, that's over a decade of gamers with dual-GPU's in their rigs, do you really think Multi-GPU's is only in the latest high-end PC's? They aren't, I have seen gamers still rocking a couple of 6-7 year old Radeon 5850's/5870's and are still maxing out most games, or getting mostly high settings.
There are AMD Desktops and Laptops where they pair the IGP up with a second GPU and run them in crossfire.
I have seen people buy OEM rigs and add a second low-end card as it's a cheap upgrade.
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Why even mention ancient 3Dfx and ATI cards? Do you really think there are many people who still use these cards today? I also doubt that there are many Fermi SLI-combinations still active nowadays. It makes much more sense to replace the 2 old cards with 1 newer card, which is even faster than the old setup, doesn't have to rely on SLI/CF profiles, supports new features/codecs/interfaces and amortizes its price very fast with lower electricity costs.
But believe what you want, I still have my doubts that many people favor such a stopgap solution. You can't prove that there are millions of active multi-GPU setups and I can't prove that there are less than 300k.
