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Old Jun 7, 2012, 02:02 PM   #15
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Originally Posted by DanTheBanjoman View Post
Its a lot simpler actually. GPU A can't access the VRAM on card B fast enough. It would simply cripple memory performance and thus destroy performance.
^ this.


as it stands, they just release cards with more Vram than they need, so that theres still leftover room for crossfire and SLI to use.


short of a new version of directX or oGL (and corresponding hardware) to be designed from the ground up to scale better in multi GPU, it wont happen.
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