Don't be to sure about time solving the hardware issue, it usually just complicates it further.

Nothing from Nvidia will stick around forever and history shows that CUDA will be replaced by whatever is next.

On the other side of the spectrum, AMD announced that ATI chips days are numbered about 2~3 years ago...

Once the next wave of GPU's goes public, things like CUDA and OpenCl will be things of the past. It may not happen soon, or the next release wave, but it will happen.

Once truley parallel GPUs are released, there will be a much faster way to do just about eveything 3D, and it most likely will not involve CUDA, OpenCl, or any other standard out there now.

On another note:

Wim, it would be interesting to know if using multiple video cards can get around the texture count problem. I was reading thru the Octane site, and there is not a lot of info on SLI setups. And I would think that SLI could/should increase the total texture count. That is part of the reason to gang cards together in the first place.

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