nVidia's GPU Socket

[WhiteZero]

NVIDIA's Secret Flip Chip GPU

Manufacturers seem to think G72 and G73 will be an easy tool over from NV40/43, but another vendor claims NVIDIA has bigger plans. They claim that NVIDIA is working on flip chip GPU sockets for motherboards. Apparently, inside NVIDIA engineering teams have several prototypes where the GPU, rather than the CPU, is the main focus of a motherboard with two sockets: one for the GPU and another for the CPU. Whether or not such a machine will ever see the light of day is difficult to say right now. However, the idea of pin compatible GPUs already suggests that we are halfway there when it comes to buying GPUs the same way we buy CPUs: in flip chips. We have plenty of questions, like how the memory interface will work and how that will affect performance, but GPU sockets are likely less a question of "if", but rather "when".

http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2570

Veeeeeery interesting.
If this comes to fruition then it will make quite a change for the way we handle "new video cards" altogether.

 

[DigiQ8]

wow that would be great ,
:thumbs: for nvidia ( if it works )

 

[Cole]

That would really help lower prices and well would be something I would definently look into it.

 

[Icarusintel]

the memory for the GPU concerns me.. would be nice if it was upgradeable like regular RAM, i'd definitely go for that

 

[ComradeBadger]

the memory for the GPU concerns me.. would be nice if it was upgradeable like regular RAM, i'd definitely go for that

If it were a flip chip and the motherboard had a memory contoller for it then definately

 

[WhiteZero]

Nah, supposedly the mobo will just have the GPU chip, there will still be a board for memory and whatnot.

However, it seems that GPU technology grows a bit faster than VGA memory anyway.

 

[Quixoticism]

That seems like pretty interesting stuff. I would have to see what the performance and price would be like before getting really excited about it.

 

[Qonfused]

Interesting...