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Captain_Yuri said:

Bofferbrauer2 said:

The 4090 looked like a discount until one checked all the features and saw that some professional ones from the Titans were missing and the prices of the Titans before the way overpriced RTX and V models

Also worth noting maybe is that before the 3090, all xx90 models were dual GPUs, as in dual xx80 models. The 3090 falls a bit short in that regard imo.

Yea but at that point, you shouldn't be comparing the Titan against the 3090 anyway. Either you are going to compare the Titans against the 3090 and include Titan RTX or don't compare them at all... You can't have it both ways... The reality is that the 3000 series were priced much better than many people thought it would.

The dual GPUs were never all that great imo. With SLI/Crossfire being dead, it wasn't much of a surprise they went this route. And considering the last dual GPU from Nvidia was the Titan Z that had an MSRP of $3000... Yea I don't mind the 3090 costing $1500 in comparison...

Back in my day a high-end GPU like the Geforce 4 Ti 4600 launched at $399 USD... Which when accounting for inflation is $590 USD today.
We roll over and take it hard by comparison these days in regards to pricing... Mostly because people will pay it.

I think SLI/Crossfire will make a comeback, but not like how we know it with what 3dfx pioneered with Voodoo SLI.

It will be multi-chip, but chiplet based, thus negating the need for any software interference...

And honestly, I think that was always the end goal as some efforts were made to achieve this over the years with efforts like the Lucid Hydra chip which would allow you to pair up any nVidia/AMD or both GPU's without any need for software interference.

But go back to the 90's and multi-chip GPU's were actually common, some GPU's like the 3dfx Voodoo 1 had your pixel pipelines in one chip... And the texture units on another chip.
Some GPU's later on had separate 2D and 3D accelerators on the one board... And some would have the GPU and a seperate TnL co-processor.

Was no messy software tricks to make them work together either.

But yeah, SLI and Crossfire for all intents and purposes are (happily) dead, mostly because single GPU's became competent and expensive enough to handle everything.