Nvidia Reintroduces SLI with GeForce 6800 Series

An anonymous reader writes "It's 1998 all over again gamers. A major release from ID software, and an expensive hotrod video card all in one year. However, rather than Quake and the Voodoo2 SLI, it's Doom3 and Nvidia SLI. Hardware Analysis has the scoop, 'Exact performance figures are not yet available, but Nvidia's SLI concept has already been shown behind closed doors by one of the companies working with Nvidia on the SLI implementation. On early driver revisions which only offered non-optimized dynamic load-balancing algorithms their SLI configuration performed 77% faster than a single graphics card. However Nvidia has told us that prospective performance numbers should show a performance increase closer to 90% over that of a single graphics card. There are a few things that need to be taken into account however when you're considering buying an SLI configuration. First off you'll need a workstation motherboard featuring two PCI-E-x16 slots which will also use the more expensive Intel Xeon processors. Secondly you'll need two identical, same brand and type, PCI-E GeForce 6800 graphics cards.'"

Comments

Re:When

[martingunnarsson]

So until then it doesn't deserve to be mentioned or discussed on Slashdot? In that case, not many Slashdot-headlines qualify as news.

Does this really make much sense?

[Solar Limb]

Aren't we to the point where CPU and (single) GPU power is high enough for just about any game without needing a SLI solution? Seems to me this SLI bit is only to induce a boner in the geekiest of geeks, and at a high price to boot.

Just doens't make much sense to me. If there's a game my Boxx FX53 + X800 won't play well, then it's probably not worth playing.

Re:When

[fermion]

Pardon my French, but we live in a really fucked up world when comparing a graphic card to a cure for cancer get you a +5 insightful.

It must be the chauvinism.

I don't disagree with sentiment, but really,
get
a
life!

Re:"begs the question"

[orcus]

So... In everyday speech it is acceptable to be illiterate. Got it.