Will video cards ever get smaller? For how long can they keep adding fans and heat spreaders until video cards are impractically large?
no cause they keep adding transistors
>>54522266
>fury nano
>>54522266
Integrated video cards are your solution.
>>54522266
Graphics cards started getting bigger and bigger, then they got smaller and faster and we went back to bigger and bigger.
Except we are staying at about the same size.
I used to have an extended ISA video card, much longer than anything today,
>>54522266
>here's your new video card anon
that was such a good card
>>54522344
>one day, video cards will a subscription to Nvidia or AMD Cloud™ computing
>>54522357
You'll have outgrown gaming long before that time and gaming will be so infested with SJW shetwinks and beardgoons that you won't even miss it.
Are there any companies that still put CG characters on the shroud?
Fury X is so qt tho
>>54522439
I think Sapphire does, with their cool robot - man
>when will they get smaller
Old cga cards were ducking gigantic
>>54522644
*fucking
>>54522266
Aparentely we are going back to small cards.
>>54522266
Way longer.
Variable multiplier tech like SpeedStep was the only thing that saved our processors from overheating, esp. when applied to individual cores being on/off and single coore boost multipliers
It's a much more difficult challenge in GPU and VRAM design, but to power-off unused shaders, memory blocks and controllers, or entire pipelines across the entire card would reduce heat by a significant amount during the average use cases with heavy load cycling on and off periodically
There have been a few forays into this by all 3 gpu designers but nothing has come of it yet because current-gen cards can still be large enough to permit their integrated watercooling or solid copper bricks, etc.
>>54522591
not on the shroud, only the box :(
