New 1080 SLI Bridge

[TundraBF109]

Anyone here in Linus land know the deal on these?  I've read that they have higher capacity/throughput/whatever the eff/etc than the standard bridges, yet I haven't seen them anyone for sale here in Canada, not at NCIX or MemExpress - no can find!  I've bought 2 of the 1080 cards, and will be buying 2 more for another system once the new coolers/ACX3/etc come out in a couple weeks.  So, I need at least 2 bridges.  I THINK the standard ones will work for now, but I absolutely want the new ones shown at the recent show, due to not only looks, but their apparent "better" performance - if that's even correct/true.

 

So, anyone?  Bueller?  Bueller...

[Curufinwe_wins]

1 minute ago, TundraBF109 said:

Anyone here in Linus land know the deal on these?  I've read that they have higher capacity/throughput/whatever the eff/etc than the standard bridges, yet I haven't seen them anyone for sale here in Canada, not at NCIX or MemExpress - no can find!  I've bought 2 of the 1080 cards, and will be buying 2 more for another system once the new coolers/ACX3/etc come out in a couple weeks.  So, I need at least 2 bridges.  I THINK the standard ones will work for now, but I absolutely want the new ones shown at the recent show, due to not only looks, but their apparent "better" performance - if that's even correct/true.

 

So, anyone?  Bueller?  Bueller...

So I can't prove this one way or another, but I would be willing to bet right now, the "special sauce" is merely that they use both headers, therefore if you just buy some of the three-way old bridges you should get the exact same results...

 

But the new bridges should be available for sale within the next few days.

[TundraBF109]

Ok thanks. Further reading right now shows graphs/etc on nVidia's site that the standard bridge will not be so great for 60hz+ SLI, (I'm using both 27" ROG Swifts and a 34" Rog Swift, 144, 165, and 100hz), but the LED ones that are available now should be "ok" for now.  So, if the new bridges are a no show, I'll just pick up one or two of the LED ones.  For now.

 

Pew Pew!

[Curufinwe_wins]

4 minutes ago, TundraBF109 said:

Ok thanks. Further reading right now shows graphs/etc on nVidia's site that the standard bridge will not be so great for 60hz+ SLI, (I'm using both 27" ROG Swifts and a 34" Rog Swift, 144, 165, and 100hz), but the LED ones that are available now should be "ok" for now.  So, if the new bridges are a no show, I'll just pick up one or two of the LED ones.  For now.

 

Pew Pew!

I'm willing to bet the "standard bridges" are the supposed single finger two-way ones. Again, the 3-way bridges that use both fingers should be identical to the new ones that also use both fingers.

 

 (Nvidia hilariously claims exactly 2x the bandwidth...)

[TundraBF109]

Hah, roger that.