Sunday question: Have you ever owned a graphics card with a dual GPU? : Test |CUP | Specs |Config

The Sunday question takes a look at exotic dual-GPU graphics cards and very special pixel accelerators. Real GPU classics from ATi, AMD and Nvidia do the honors and show what was possible in the respective epoch, even if it wasn’t always sensible. Have you ever owned a dual GPU graphics card?

Over the past two decades, numerous of the most extreme dual-GPU graphics cards have been able to prove themselves on ComputerBase and have found their way into the editorial office. It starts with an overview of all dual GPUs tested by the ComputerBase editorial team since 2005.

Dual GPU graphics cards in the ComputerBase test

After ComputerBase had taken on the subject of Nvidia SLI (test) for the first time in December 2004 and shortly afterwards was able to take a close look at ATi CrossFire (test), the first dual-GPU graphics card Gigabyte GV-3D1 was put through its paces in February 2005 tested.

In the years that followed, many more graphics cards with dual GPUs would find their way into the editorial office.

The community members from the ComputerBase forum have also published some great pictures of their dual GPU graphics cards, which suggest that readers have also bet on dual GPUs from time to time. The ComputerBase reader Fry[CH] meanwhile even has a whole dual GPU collection.

More great pictures and impressions of retro hardware can also be found in the large retro hardware picture thread, which was initiated by community member andi_sco and has now grown to more than 10,000 posts.

Have you ever owned a graphics card with a dual GPU?

The manifold disadvantages of SLI, CrossFire and dual or multi-GPUs are widely known, which is why these topics no longer play a role in the consumer sector and especially for gamers. Nevertheless, the editors would like to know from you whether you have already been able to call a dual-GPU graphics card your own.

In the meantime, dual-GPU graphics cards have become extinct for gamers and SLI and CrossFire are also only marginal phenomena, which AMD and Nvidia no longer actively maintain. Would you like the multi-GPU topic to pick up speed again or are you glad that this era is over?

Participation is expressly desired

The editors would be very happy to receive well-founded and detailed reasons for your decisions in the comments on the current Sunday question.

Readers who have not yet participated in the last Sunday Questions are welcome to do so. Exciting discussions are still going on in the ComputerBase forum, especially regarding the last surveys.

You have ideas for an interesting Sunday question? The editors are always happy to receive suggestions and submissions.

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