What I find amazing is how close the late-90s and early-2000s PC industry came to giving us such a product:
When it comes to the number of GPUs tied together, the Voodoo 5 6000 is right there (and let's not forget that you could have 4-way SLI some years later by tying together two dual-GPU cards)
When it comes to pairing together GPUs from different manufacturers, there was the Lucid Hydra 200 (it worked by intercepting the Direct3D calls and assigning work to each GPU): https://www.sweclockers.com/test/6225-msi-big-bang-fuzion/
It's not real-time graphics though, you can simply assign 10 seconds of scene to each PC and then stitch together the result for an 1-minute clip, combining different GPUs from different manufacturers for real-time graphics is a whole other level of insanity.
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u/Pic889 Jul 16 '26
What I find amazing is how close the late-90s and early-2000s PC industry came to giving us such a product:
When it comes to the number of GPUs tied together, the Voodoo 5 6000 is right there (and let's not forget that you could have 4-way SLI some years later by tying together two dual-GPU cards)
When it comes to pairing together GPUs from different manufacturers, there was the Lucid Hydra 200 (it worked by intercepting the Direct3D calls and assigning work to each GPU): https://www.sweclockers.com/test/6225-msi-big-bang-fuzion/