SLI 2.0 Technology In March?

[Arty]

VR thinks so. Also echoed by Dailytech.

 

[turtle]

At first thought, you'd think physics (2x16 cards + mis-matched card at 8x for physics), but AFAIK every card out there currently can use 8x, where-as the 680i could then handle three...hmm...I wonder if it's both for physics and 3x (or up to 6x with GX2-type products) SLI when physics isn't in use. Physics is probably true, 3-slot SLI prolly not.

Regardless, I'm sticking with the one good GPU for processing + one lower-end end card for physics (when that's supported by nvidia/ATi-AMD), so I couldn't really care less if they do 3-slot SLI. Good to hear the mis-matched cards for physics will finally see the light of day from both Nvidia/ATi though, it's been a long time coming...Maybe we'll actually see games utilize them (unlike physX)

 

[Shtal]

Unless PCIe 2.0 specifications will allow to make Motherboard 4 of um PCIe slots @16X speed. So you can have Quad physical PCIe cards Nvida G8x series GPU's.

[Edit: without physics PCIe slots] strait 16x - 4 physical slots....

 

[Geo]

What VR Zone and Dailytech are pointing at seemed like pretty weak beer to me so far as earning so grand a moniker as "SLI 2.0". But maybe, I guess. The ways of Marketing departments are mysterious at times.

 

[KimB]

Unless PCIe 2.0 specifications will allow to make Motherboard 4 of um PCIe slots @16X speed. So you can have Quad physical PCIe cards Nvida G8x series GPU's.

[Edit: without physics PCIe slots] strait 16x - 4 physical slots....

Um, as far as I know there is no limitation on how many PCIe slots you can have on a motherboard by the PCIe spec. It's purely a chipset issue. PCIe 2.0 will bring higher frequencies to the table.

 

[Geo]

3 chip could be cool. Say a 7950 gx2 and a second single-chip card [except replace with 8xxx probably].

 

[Iron Tiger]

What VR Zone and Dailytech are pointing at seemed like pretty weak beer to me so far as earning so grand a moniker as "SLI 2.0". But maybe, I guess. The ways of Marketing departments are mysterious at times.

Not too many people thought adding some SIMD instructions warranted an increment of the moniker to Pentium III. And I didn't feel like nForce4 was as big an advancement over nForce 3 as 3 was over 2 (or 2 was over 1). But new names spur new interest.

 

[iwod]

Since most Gfx card aren't even using all bandwidth for PCIe 8x. So we assume PCIe 16x is more then enough for the moment.

With PCIe 2.0 we could have 8 lane instead of 16 lane for the same bandwith. Which mean 4 PCIe 2.0 8x can easily be done.

Which seems to make sense with SLI 2.0?