Nvidia releases new SLI bridges - Looks Nice

[TheProfosist]

i belive for 4 way you can use 3, 2 way bridges.

3 way vs 4 way is a very small performance gain though. if anything its a performance drop since the latency between frames becomes ridiculous.

Yep but you need the ones with no spaceing which evga only had for a short period of time for matx builds. They did also have a 4way but i dont think its available anymore.

Do the multiple bridges add latency? Honest question

Nope not at all.

[TheProfosist]

Also the three way will work with sli and 2 open slots between them.

[rashdanml]

Really goes well with stock configurations. Nice. 

[Trik'Stari]

If I had a single Nvidia card that was sli capable, could I buy one of these, stick it on there, and have it light up just because I want another glowing thing in my case?

[PopReference]

I noticed these on the Game24 mod challenge, looked really cool. Good to know how Nvidia plans to make their money back on 900 cards. kappa

[TheProfosist]

I noticed these on the Game24 mod challenge, looked really cool. Good to know how Nvidia plans to make their money back on 900 cards. kappa

They had them before in their batle boxes and stuff like that. only nvidia and official partners had access to them so im glad that their now finally available.

[kuddlesworth9419]

Well we did ask for it. They probably had no intention of mass producing them in the first place so when they realised there was a demand for it they probably had to go and contact their manufacturer about what they want to do. I would imagine it isn't a quick task. But I like them and when you take into the account what Nvidia had to do to get these out I think the price is pretty fair.

[Techhog]

There's a reason Nvidia sticks with bridged. It has a higher bandwidth ceiling and doesn't at all touch the power moving through the PCIe bus. Bridges is more stable and has more potential.

$5 says Nvidia does it eventually, markets it as not having those disadvantages, and you eat it up and talk about how Nvidia perfected AMD's "flawed" implementation.

[deviant88]

Hasn't Linus proven with Luke that multiple GPUs in SLI or Crossfire hardly make difference?

I think you meant 4 way hardly makes a difference.If you meant 2-3 gpu's in sli/x-fire you are terribly wrong.

 

Those bridges look neat,but expensive as hell not worthy for PC peasant like me who doesnt have 2 gpu's,only for filthy rich then it makes sense to buy them.

[Kilerbomb]

That thing is gorgeous, but the price... Why so expensive?

[X1XNobleX1X]

Of course, it's not available to ship to Australia. 

[patrickjp93]

$5 says Nvidia does it eventually, markets it as not having those disadvantages, and you eat it up and talk about how Nvidia perfected AMD's "flawed" implementation.

Claims a civilian with no background in computer science nor engineering thereof. If you're going to shoot your mouth off, please provide the reasons why you aren't a dick and have something worth listening to.

[Techhog]

Claims a civilian with no background in computer science nor engineering thereof. If you're going to shoot your mouth off, please provide the reasons why you aren't a dick and have something worth listening to.

I'm sorry, your majesty. Please forgive my inferiority. 

[79wjd]

I'm seriously disappointed that there is no two-way bridge with a single space in between  

[Coombzy]

yeah good nobody else did that before.

 

/s

EVGA was faster and cheaper, $29.99, for a 2-way and 2/3-way bridge

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The EVGA bridges were inspired by the original OEM claw SLI bridge.

[Fetzie]

There's a reason Nvidia sticks with bridged. It has a higher bandwidth ceiling and doesn't at all touch the power moving through the PCIe bus. Bridges is more stable and has more potential.

 

And XF over PCI-E has completely removed frame latency from the picture for crossfire configurations.

[patrickjp93]

And XF over PCI-E has completely removed frame latency from the picture for crossfire configurations.

I'm not saying SLI isn't flawed, but there was an engineering tradeoff made. Stable power or raw performance with the hardware available. They chose stable power. Whether or not Nvidia fixes its latency remains to be seen, but given the SLI scaling on Maxwell, it looks like they have, but that doesn't negate my argument. Bridged configs will always have more bandwidth available than non-bridged for (I hope) obvious architectural reasons.

[Victorious Secret]

The EVGA bridges were inspired by the original OEM claw SLI bridge.

 

Exactly. 

 

Here is the original Claw bridge

 

 

Difference seems to be that you can buy them more easily now.

[TheProfosist]

I'm seriously disappointed that there is no two-way bridge with a single space in between

evga has that one but doesnt have the other two. They used to have the no spacing one but that was a limited run. You could also use the 3 way for no spacing and double spacing.

[79wjd]

evga has that one but doesnt have the other two. They used to have the no spacing one but that was a limited run. You could also use the 3 way for no spacing and double spacing.

There is still a no spacing option. There are two way bridges with no space or with two spaces (ignoring spaces taken up by the cards). So theres no way to use it on a board with a dual slot card- a single empty space - another dual slot card (unless of course the picture is just misleading).  

[TheProfosist]

And XF over PCI-E has completely removed frame latency from the picture for crossfire configurations.

Umm thats not what did it they had to completely redo how the driver was done for SLI. Nvidia and AMD handled multi GPU very very differently.

Exactly. 

 

Here is the original Claw bridge

 

 

Difference seems to be that you can buy them more easily now.

They look exactly teh same as the new ones... I think I prefer the nvidia ones unless you have a ACX cooling unit.

ill be picking up two of the double spacing 2 way sli ones since those arnt available form EVGA. I think the will look better with two water blocked 980's than EVGA's as well. RIght now im using a modified EVGA 3 way (I cut out the middle connectors).

[TheProfosist]

There is still a no spacing option. There are two way bridges with no space or with two spaces (ignoring spaces taken up by the cards). So theres no way to use it on a board with a dual slot card- a single empty space - another dual slot card (unless of course the picture is just misleading).

EVGA has that option is what I was trying to say. its available here http://goo.gl/6PDX6G .

[79wjd]

EVGA has that option is what I was trying to say. its available here http://goo.gl/6PDX6G .

I know that, but I like Nvidia's bridge 

[TheProfosist]

I know that, but I like Nvidia's bridge

Well EVGA doesnt have the 2 way ones that nvidia does and vice-versa so idk... ?

[cesrai]

There's a reason Nvidia sticks with bridged. It has a higher bandwidth ceiling and doesn't at all touch the power moving through the PCIe bus. Bridges is more stable and has more potential.

It doesn't effect the performance and if it does why would they use it in pascal? and I want evidence.