NVIDIA finally announces 3-way SLI

NVIDIA said in the announcement:

“NVIDIA’s new 3-way SLI delivers up to a 2.8x performance increase over a single GPU system, giving high-end gamers 60 frames per second at resolutions as high as 2560×1600 and with 8x antialiasing. 3-way SLI technology means you no longer have to dial back the image quality settings on the newest PC games. For example, gamers with 3-way SLI can play Crysis at high resolutions such as 1920×1600 with all the advanced DirectX 10 effects such as motion blur, ambient occlusion, and soft shadows turned on.

The heart of a 3-way SLI system is an NVIDIA nForce(R) 680 SLI MCP motherboard and three GeForce 8800 GTX or GeForce 8800 Ultra graphics cards. With 3-way SLI, gamers can harness the power of 384 stream processors, a 110+ gigatexel per second texture fill rate, and over two gigabytes of graphics memory for no-compromise gaming performance.”

So if you lucky enough to have a 680i, three 8800Ultra, a juicy 1200W PSU, you still need to pay 130 RMB, or 18 USD for the 3-way SLI connector.

You can find reviews/previews in this site: PC Games Hardware (German) Guru3D FiringSquad Tomshardware (chinese).

2 Responses to “NVIDIA finally announces 3-way SLI”

  1. Mike Says:

    Crazy stuff. Does nvidia own shares in power companies? :)
    To me it just looks like a way to accelerate the depreciation in your PC with 3 instead of 1 graphic cards becoming obsolete over time.

    I guess if you wanna play Crysis at HD though…..

  2. jeff Says:

    Agreed.
    I bet they have not only shares in power companies, but also memory companies chassis companies…

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