A better understanding of NVIDIA SLI.

First, I would like to say thanks to my team mate that started to publish post at my blog. I have readed the review of FC 2, and that's a dissapointment to me(hey, that's one of the most anticipated games!).

OK, let me continue with this NVIDIA SLI techonology.
What is NVIDIA SLI Technology?
NVIDIA® SLI™ technology is a revolutionary platform innovation that allows you to intelligently scale graphics performance by combining multiple NVIDIA graphics solutions in an SLI-Certified motherboard.

How Does SLI Technology Work?
Using proprietary software algorithms and dedicated scalability logic in each NVIDIA graphics processing unit (GPU) and MCP, NVIDIA SLI technology delivers up to twice the performance of a single graphics solution. Now with support for three GPUs in an SLI-Certified motherboard, you can get up to 2.8X performance increase over a single GPU.

So, in easy words, you can put dual or triple video cards in your motherboard ok?

Now, many people will say: "can I have two diffetent video cards at my motherboard?"
OK, the answer is here: YES.(For 8,9,200 series and above)

If you got a single NVIDIA graphic card, you'll have graphics rendering + PhysX calculations.

If you got 2X same NVIDIA graphic card(2 way SLI), you'll have graphics rendering + PhysX acceleration.

If you got 3X same NVIDIA graphic card(3 way SLI), you'll have graphics rendering + PhysX acceleration.

Now, the new Multi card system(not SLI), that means you can have two different card in your motherboard. You'll have: Card 1 - graphics rendering; Card 2 - dedicated to PhysX acceleration.

For ATi Radeon users, I'll give you info on ATi Crossfire when I have time.
Thanks for reading my blog.

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Written by Unorthodox,
Tuesday, 6 January, 2009
10:55PM