'SLI On A Stick' Reviewed

Bender writes "What would happen if you took NVIDIA's multi-GPU teaming capability, SLI, and stuck it onto a single graphics card? Probably something like the GeForce 7950 GX2, a 'single' video card with dual printed circuit boards, dual graphics processors, dual 512MB memory banks, and nearly twice the performance of any other 'single' video card. Add two of these to a system, and you've got the truly extreme possibility of Quad SLI. We've seen early versions of these things benchmarked before, but the latest revision of this card is smaller, draws less power than a single-GPU Radeon X1900 XTX, and is now selling to the public."

Comments

Re:Wow

[Kutsal]

Nothing yet, probably. But that doesn't mean there won't ever be any.. Also, in most cases, these boards are used by people like John Carmack to come up with proof-of-concept of new ideas/technologies, or whatever cool thing he's cooking up...

While they may be overkill for your average user, for (game) developers these things will be goldmines..

-K

Re:Wow

[Anonymous Coward]

Oblivion. At 1600x1200. Turn up the antialiasing to 4x and turn on all the effects.

In case you're like me

[szembek]

SLI stands for Scalable Link Interface.

Re:Wow

[Kjella]

Which game you need to run to take advantage of the equvalent of 4 graphic cards?

Oblivion at 1920x1200? Good thing I don't have an Apple Cinema Display. Personally I think Oblivion's game engine is a bit overrated. Ok it's pretty but not *that* much prettier than the other freeform 3D games that don't kill my GFX card. Right now I'm working on a HOMM5 addiction instead...