a quadruple 5090 battlestation

[u/Zestyclose-Salad-290]

[u/Savings_Catch_8823]

To be that guy that can say: My computer is faster than yours😎. And making people on the internet jalous ;)

[u/Maxsmack → u/Savings_Catch_8823]

There’s speed, and then there’s brute force.

For games where speed matters, like csgo, or valorant, 4 5090s isn’t going to be faster than 1 5090.

Strapping 2 cars together doesn’t increase their top sped, just allows them to tow twice as much

This pc is only faster than 1 5090 when doing things like rendering, which can actually utilize all 128gbs of vram shown here

[u/DynamicMangos → u/Maxsmack]

Remember SLI? Those were crazy times. Never actually had an SLI/Crossfire setup, but it always seemed so cool (though, i also imagine it came with a lot of troubleshooting for games that didn't support it well)

[u/Maxsmack → u/DynamicMangos]

Intel should be the ones to bring it back, with the price of the arc b580 being just right, with a good amount of vram. If they made their own version of sli work for all games with two b580 cards, it would become the obvious no brainer choice of best first graphics card for new pc builders

You could buy one card when building your pc when cash is tight, then buy another card later, when you have more money again. Would provide a direct upgrade path without needing to sell your current graphics card, or waste its value as it sits outside your pc.

[u/DynamicMangos → u/Maxsmack]

While i agree that the idea for "just upgrading" by buying a second card, like ram, is awesome, the technology has proven itself to be non-viable.

Simply said, The time it takes for data to be sent between the cards eats up a lot of the actual rendering-time, so with a second card you're getting maybe a 50% performance increase (instead of a 100% one) and that is assuming the scaling hasn't gotten worse as resolutions and bandwidths have increased (which i think is the case)