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Yes, SLI is done via an SLI bridge

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SLI Bridge is must.

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But I have seen few pics in which there were no bridges attached.(I guess).

The newer AMD cards such as the R9 290, R9 290X and (I think) R7 260X don't need that bridge. All other cards at the moment do

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i'm not sure if the 260x crossfires but it is a new card cause it and the 285 supposedly will support freesync... so yea... but if his question is do you need to SLI two cards the answer is no you can run them both as individual cards eg have two 770s or something but you probably wanna sli for the performance gains???

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The Scalable Link Interface (SLI) bridge is a simple, small circuit board which comes packaged with SLI-ready motherboards.

The bridge has a connector on each end that attaches to the top edge connectors of SLI-ready video cards. In this way, the board bridges the two video cards. This mechanism is used to join two identical video cards together for information exchange when used in an SLI configuration

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No idea you would think Nvidia with all there money and resources would have already implemented pcie sli but nope they still havn't even tho amd has had it for like a year now.

But that doesn't makes AMD as a great company.They can't make a power efficient card!
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But that doesn't makes AMD as a great company.They can't make a power efficient card!

Well they actually made the most efficient card in the world in compute calculations. but there gaming side is lacking compared to nvidia but they are still going strong and doing great with what they have in the gpu side definitely giving nvidia a run for there money in pure gpu power.

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No idea you would think Nvidia with all there money and resources would have already implemented pcie sli but nope they still havn't even tho amd has had it for like a year now.

There must be a reason then right?

Also remember much of sli is controlled via the hardware where as crossfire is via the software. This is one of the reasons AMD had to rollback and rewrite their driver for crossfire.

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Well they actually made the most efficient card in the world in compute calculations. but there gaming side is lacking compared to nvidia but they are still going strong and doing great with what they have in the gpu side definitely giving nvidia a run for there money in pure gpu power.

It will always be a seesaw.If nvidia Goes up,amd GE's down and vice versa.
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