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SLI Performance Reviewed at Anandtech

Posted by Zonk on from the two-chips-means-twice-the-shiny dept.

DarkSarin writes "Anandtech has a review of dual gpu's using nvidia's nforce4 SLI chipset. They are showing ~66 fps on doom3 at 1600x1200 with 4xAA turned on (a 75% increase in performance over a single gpu). It's not available yet, but it should be fairly soon."

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  1. Nice! But... by glowimperial · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I wonder how many of us are actually going to shell out for new graphics hardware. We are kind of hitting the wall in performace here already.

  2. Re:Expensive..... by justforaday · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Let's not forget another 100-200 bucks or so for the mobo to accomodate the two gfx cards...

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  3. It's called Lock-In by Alzheimers · · Score: 2, Interesting

    There's a very simple reason why this SLI is so desireable by the marketing types at NVidia -- Lock In. Sure, you may only have the cash to buy one card right now, but in a year when ATI releases their next new thing are you going to spend *another* $400 for the next new card, or are you going to buy the now "Budget" 6800 and get almost as good performance?

  4. Suspect some performance selection, /.ers by lukestuts · · Score: 2, Interesting

    They are showing ~66 fps on doom3 at 1600x1200 with 4xAA turned on

    Were there any monsters on screen at the time? Was there any discarge of firearms? In my Doom 3 experience, you could go for a good 10 minutes with nothing worth shooting at - this would surely throw the fps up?

    Oh no! A teleporting cyberdemon! No wait, it's just doing the Doom 3 stutter-shuffle.