nVidia GeForce 8800GTS 640MB vs. 1280MB in SLI mode

Tweaktown have had a look at the 320MB nVidia GeForce 8800GTS graphic card offering a few times here at TweakTown in the past - we have looked at it in its stock form, overclocked and in SLI. It’s a fantastic card and doesn’t disappoint but in our first article we mainly focused on how it compared against the 640MB in single card configuration. Today they are going to be re-focusing on this situation but when the cards are used together in SLI mode.

With in excess of 1.2GB of memory on offer when the 640MB cards are enabled in SLI mode, you have to wonder are we simply at a point of overkill. Are the 640MB cards for non-SLI and the 320MB cards for SLI? These are some of the questions we hope to answer today.

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Opportunity of life! 365 Days of Winning. $100,000 in prizes! - Who else then Slizone

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What is SLI - Scalable Link Interface?

Long has passed after this technology has been brought to IT market, but for those who don't know much about it, here is link to free content encyclopedia definition on -what else then -Wikipedia SLI definition


Scalable Link Interface (SLI) is a brand name for a multi-GPU solution developed by NVIDIA for linking two (or more) video cards together to produce a single output. SLI is an application of parallel processing for computer graphics, meant to increase the processing power available for graphics. With SLI, it is possible to theoretically double the power of your graphics solution just by adding a second identical video card.
The name SLI was first used by 3dfx under the full name Scan-Line Interleave, which was introduced in 1998 and used in the Voodoo2 line of graphics accelerators. When 3dfx collapsed financially, its intellectual property was purchased by NVIDIA. NVIDIA later reintroduced the SLI name in 2004 and intends for it to be used in modern computer systems based on the PCI Express (PCIe) bus. However, the technology behind the name SLI has changed dramatically.
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But ofcourse on site is the best source of information for everything regarding SLI, and that's ofcourse Slizone. This page has a really good flash animated movie on how SLI works, and of which parts it consists of..
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