Nvidia releases new SLI bridges - Looks Nice

[cesrai]

i think sticking with the bridge between cars will always be the best option,

There is a bridge but it uses the PCI-E

[Biased Opinion]

I wonder if i can mod the light in it to be something other than green or is it green plexie over the led.

[TheProfosist]

There is a bridge but it uses the PCI-E

then thats not a bridge they are just connected via the PCI-E for everything.

[bob345]

From the look of it, those seem like they may be fairly easy to take apart and mod. They look really awesome.

[TheProfosist]

I wonder if i can mod the light in it to be something other than green or is it green plexie over the led.

The EVGA one is white I just ordered a "2-Way Spaced SLI Bridge" http://goo.gl/3Jr8q2 so il let you know when I get mine.

[TheProfosist]

From the look of it, those seem like they may be fairly easy to take apart and mod. They look really awesome.

yep same as the EVGA one as that is what the EVGA ones are based on.

[Techhog]

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

Shush. I want my $5.

[bob345]

yep same as the EVGA one as that is what the EVGA ones are based on.

sweet, now i just need to wait until the 770's price drops a bit. I feel the need for a sli setup in the short future.

[cesrai]

then thats not a bridge they are just connected via the PCI-E for everything.

Yeah that, but it doesn't effect performance right, that what I read and heard, but some people on this thread said it does with no evidence l, I am not implying they are stupid but they are misinformed.

[cesrai]

Shush. I want my $5.

What??

[Bensemus]

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

If there is a card above the one you are sli'ing then they usually recommend the single powerful card over the sli. But if you have two top tier cards the only way to get more is through sli. 2-way is pretty close to double the preformance in games with sli profiles but 3-way isn't that close to 3 times and 4-way is just cuz u have more money than you know what to do with it.

[Techhog]

What??

 

 

$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.

that

[Swndlr]

i just fucking wet my pants, excuse me for a minute while i go get changed...

[melias24]

Finally releases them, oh wait that's right i live in Australia where it's not available. MUST MOVE TO MURICA!!!!!!!!

[TheProfosist]

Yeah that, but it doesn't effect performance right, that what I read and heard, but some people on this thread said it does with no evidence l, I am not implying they are stupid but they are misinformed.

Not using a bridge for SLI doesnt work as its not make to. back in the early days you used to be able to software SLI that just used the PCI-E bus and there was a huge drop in performance. This was back when basically only nForce chipset boards were certified for SLI.

There might be enough bandwidth there. AMD has shown that indeed it does work but they also do SLI far more with software than Nvidia which is part of the reason why they had the issues with the frame timing. Nvidia on the other hand has a bunch of hardware in place to aid with sli and have since the beginning. Inherently this may need a direct connection to the other GPU.

Part of the reason why I like nvidia more is because of that. They choose to go the hardware route with dedicated chips or hardware features than AMD who for the most part uses software and runs if off the GPU. If you into multimedia at all nvidia is much appreciated with dedicated decoders and even a dedicated hardware deinterlacer which is still there from the DVD/MPEG2 days. If you manage to run their MPEG2 PureVideo hardware decoder it still works as well.

[cesrai]

Not using a bridge for SLI doesnt work as its not make to. back in the early days you used to be able to software SLI that just used the PCI-E bus and there was a huge drop in performance. This was back when basically only nForce chipset boards were certified for SLI.

There might be enough bandwidth there. AMD has shown that indeed it does work but they also do SLI far more with software than Nvidia which is part of the reason why they had the issues with the frame timing. Nvidia on the other hand has a bunch of hardware in place to aid with sli and have since the beginning. Inherently this may need a direct connection to the other GPU.

Part of the reason why I like nvidia more is because of that. They choose to go the hardware route with dedicated chips or hardware features than AMD who for the most part uses software and runs if off the GPU. If you into multimedia at all nvidia is much appreciated with dedicated decoders and even a dedicated hardware deinterlacer which is still there from the DVD/MPEG2 days. If you manage to run their MPEG2 PureVideo hardware decoder it still works as well.

Yeah but Amd is starting to catch up with Tonga they put some decoders and encoders on the R9 285.

[TheProfosist]

If there is a card above the one you are sli'ing then they usually recommend the single powerful card over the sli. But if you have two top tier cards the only way to get more is through sli. 2-way is pretty close to double the preformance in games with sli profiles but 3-way isn't that close to 3 times and 4-way is just cuz u have more money than you know what to do with it.

I usually apply this to a top tier card so like 680, 670, and later the 660 Ti were viable to SLI since the used the best chip. Also the 650 Ti BOOST was just based on price to performance, power draw, and overclockability but its an anomaly.

Finally releases them, oh wait that's right i live in Australia where it's not available. MUST MOVE TO MURICA!!!!!!!!

ill ship you one but just to get it to me mine was $40 http://goo.gl/3Jr8q2

[melias24]

I usually apply this to a top tier card so like 680, 670, and later the 660 Ti were viable to SLI since the used the best chip. Also the 650 Ti BOOST was just based on price to performance, power draw, and overclockability but its an anomaly.

ill ship you one but just to get it to me mine was $40 http://goo.gl/3Jr8q2

Geez thanks for the offer! I'll have a think about it!

[TheProfosist]

Yeah but Amd is starting to catch up with Tonga they put some decoders and encoders on the R9 285.

Interesting since the lower end APU's with the x86 cores for tablet and netbooks had them for a while. I kinda wonder about the audio thing and how thats actually done on the card or if it just the driver on the PC.

[TheProfosist]

Geez thanks for the offer! I'll have a think about it!

No problem. If anyone else is interested let me know and ill see what I can do.

[Biased Opinion]

The EVGA one is white I just ordered a "2-Way Spaced SLI Bridge" http://goo.gl/3Jr8q2 so il let you know when I get mine.

thanks, once my tax returns come in I will be getting another 770 for sli so I will be in need of an sli bridge then. Flexy ROG sli bridge will have to do till then.

[Stefanopolis]

SO. DANG. SEXY.

[EricX2]

They could always do an external bridge

[totjup5]

Nice , I want

[Khvarrioiren]

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.

 

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't bridged XF/SLI capped at about 900 MB/s?