It turns out that Sideport will never seen the light of the day, perhaps, due to complexities of synchronizing data transfers between different interconnections. Maybe, when the multi-GPU technologies used by consumer-oriented solutions change radically and extremely high-bandwidth will be required for interconnection between the chips, Sideport will be back. However, not with the ATI Radeon HD 5800/5900-series.
ATI ditches Sideport technology
Posted on Friday, November 27 2009 @ 21:26 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck