NVIDIA Pascal High-Bandwidth SLI Bridge pictured

[iiNNeX]

" NVIDIA’s new SLI HB bridge doubles the available transfer bandwidth compared to the NVIDIA Maxwell™ architecture. Delivering silky-smooth gameplay, it’s the best way to experience surround gaming—and it’s only compatible with the GeForce GTX 1080. "

 

 

 

 

Source: http://videocardz.com/59827/nvidia-pascal-high-bandwidth-sli-bridge-pictured

 

 

Not sure if this has been posted before, didn't see it anywhere. Anyway, what do you think ? 

[Tedster]

1 minute ago, iiNNeX said:

" NVIDIA’s new SLI HB bridge doubles the available transfer bandwidth compared to the NVIDIA Maxwell™ architecture. Delivering silky-smooth gameplay, it’s the best way to experience surround gaming—and it’s only compatible with the GeForce GTX 1080. "

 

 

Source: http://videocardz.com/59827/nvidia-pascal-high-bandwidth-sli-bridge-pictured

 

 

Not sure if this has been posted before, didn't see it anywhere. Anyway, what do you think ? 

I really wish Nvidia would just use the PCI-E bus for everything like AMD's been doing for a while.

But that SLI bridge does look pretty slick.

[Naeaes]

Good bye, compatibility with large aftermarket coolers! 

[Moonzy]

high bandwidth sli bridge? so... old sli bridges cant be used anymore or it's snake oil?

[Mr.Meerkat]

1 minute ago, Moonzy said:

high bandwidth sli bridge? so... old sli bridges cant be used anymore or it's snake oil?

it's double the bandwidth apparently and from what I've seen/heard it's a new connector with only the 1080 being able to use it as of this moment  

[Valentyn]

No support for 3/4x SLI anymore it seems; as the new bridges needs to use both SLI fingers for max bandwidth.

[MageTank]

1 minute ago, Moonzy said:

high bandwidth sli bridge? so... old sli bridges cant be used anymore or it's snake oil?

That's a similar fear I had. Not to mention, out of the 3 varying length SLI bridges, none of them seem to allow for triple or quad SLI. I have to believe EVGA or ASUS will come up with their custom bridges to fix this, but it just seems odd to not have them at the ready to sell more cards to the super enthusiasts. 

 

 

[iiNNeX]

2 minutes ago, Valentyn said:

No support for 3/4x SLI anymore it seems; as the new bridges needs to use both SLI fingers for max bandwidth.

correct

2 minutes ago, MageTank said:

That's a similar fear I had. Not to mention, out of the 3 varying length SLI bridges, none of them seem to allow for triple or quad SLI. I have to believe EVGA or ASUS will come up with their custom bridges to fix this, but it just seems odd to not have them at the ready to sell more cards to the super enthusiasts. 

 

 

 

Yes for the time being you will only be able to use these new "HB" bridges with 2 way SLI. That will likely change as time goes on, but they should have just followed AMD's route and eliminate bridges all together

[Moonzy]

3 minutes ago, MageTank said:

That's a similar fear I had. Not to mention, out of the 3 varying length SLI bridges, none of them seem to allow for triple or quad SLI. I have to believe EVGA or ASUS will come up with their custom bridges to fix this, but it just seems odd to not have them at the ready to sell more cards to the super enthusiasts. 

so... either their cards are coming with this new SLI bridge for free or riot?

[Dabombinable]

11 minutes ago, Tedster said:

I really wish Nvidia would just use the PCI-E bus for everything like AMD's been doing for a while.

But that SLI bridge does look pretty slick.

They use both apparently.....a while ago it was even possible to force Nvidia cards to run in SLi without the bridge at all.

[Morgan MLGman]

This is retarded... Couldn't they just get rid of those bridges like AMD did? Instead of creating new ones that won't be compatible with older ones...

[silberdrachi]

Do they actually expect to saturate the PCI-E 3.0 bus and this new "high speed" bus too? Those bridges served a purpose 10 years ago, but they don't really need to exist now. Now it just seems like an added cost for 0 gain. Or negative gain if you think about losing 3x and 4x sli, though i really expect in the future they will add that back.

[patrickjp93]

18 minutes ago, Tedster said:

I really wish Nvidia would just use the PCI-E bus for everything like AMD's been doing for a while.

But that SLI bridge does look pretty slick.

Why? Bridge connectors are inherently superior. You don't have to encode the communication through PCIe (adds latency), and it can actually provide more bandwidth. I'm personally disappointed Nvidia didn't go with NVLink to retire SLI, but w/e. Going bridgeless I think is a fundamental mistake.

[MageTank]

11 minutes ago, iiNNeX said:

correct

 

Yes for the time being you will only be able to use these new "HB" bridges with 2 way SLI. That will likely change as time goes on, but they should have just followed AMD's route and eliminate bridges all together

I wonder if they are just banking on DX12 being able to utilize multiple cards without the bridges? I have not looked that much into DX12, but i recall someone mentioning multi-GPU without the need of bridges, even on Nvidia cards. If its scaling is just as good as current SLI, then that would probably work fine.

 

These Pascal cards should be pretty fast enough for any DX11 title anyways. At least, I would hope so, lol.

[Notional]

What an over engineered huge pointless expensive thing. Just use the PCIe bus like competent engineers. It's not like any card that uses SLI (gaming) will max out a 16x (or even 8x) bus for that matter.

 

I mean look at this thing. Or EVGA's or MSI's. They cost like the same as a medium sized SSD.

[Dingus]

I recall reading or hearing Jayztwocents say he was going to be replacing the three titan xs in his build with three 1080s. If three way SLI is not supported why would Nvidia supply him with three cards?

[iiNNeX]

7 minutes ago, Dingus said:

I recall reading or hearing Jayztwocents say he was going to be replacing the three titan xs in his build with three 1080s. If three way SLI is not supported why would Nvidia supply him with three cards?

It is supported, just not with the new bridges.

[Kunter]

36 minutes ago, Dingus said:

I recall reading or hearing Jayztwocents say he was going to be replacing the three titan xs in his build with three 1080s. If three way SLI is not supported why would Nvidia supply him with three cards?

The system might be backwards compatible. 

The connectors look the same so it might (again, I'm just assuming) be possible to use the old bridges, but you don't get the double bandwidth then. 

[unsubscribed]

SLI and Crossfire are not that hot anymore. PC market in general is not that large (in terms of enthusiast GPU), never mind the amount of CF/SLI systems. Sooner or later both manufacturers are going to trade it for something else as for developers it is a pain to bother themselves with such support when just a tiny percentage of users will need it.

[FloRolf]

Well pretty obvious that an sli bridge that uses both sli fingers has more bandwidth than one that only uses one finger isn't it? 

[Prysin]

well, i wonder how much "bandwidth" they add with this. their old flexible/aftermarket one had 1GB/s capacity.

 

for reference, old crossfire bridge was 900MB/s (for some odd reason, CF bridge was slower, but made in the exact same manner)

[2FA]

5 hours ago, Morgan MLGman said:

This is retarded... Couldn't they just get rid of those bridges like AMD did? Instead of creating new ones that won't be compatible with older ones...

Nah they use that bandwidth for x64 tesselation.

[Bensemus]

Kinda off topic but I saw a custom build and the person had two of the old flexible SLI bridges that come with mobos connecting two EVGA gpus. Can you do this and run the system fine or does that mess stuff up? I could see system builders just putting an extra one on for pictures and not running the system with two bridges connected. I got a second bridge through an rma and would like to put it on if I can get away with it

[Tedol]

Nvidia fix SLI)))) finaly... 16 years pass 

[Beskamir]

Why can't they just use pcie like AMD does?