ATI’s SLI To Work Without Connector

January 3rd 2005 | Graphics Cards

ATI’S WAY OF doing SLI called AMR (ATI Multi Rendering) will work differently from Nvidia’s now world famous SLI. ATI will make its SLI work without a small printed circuit board (PCB) to interconnect the cards.

SLI uses two PCIe graphic ports and in the case of Nforce 4, works at PCIe 8X for each card and renders your picture with both cards. For this operation Nvidia SLI needs a special interconnection between two graphic cards. It’s a small cable or PCB that transfers up to four GB per second from one card to another. For this operation, coordination is crucial as one card needs to know what the other card is doing.

ATI found a way to make its SLI work without this interconnection. In ATI’s case, whenever it makes its SLI ready, you will just plug two graphic cards in motherboard powered with ATI chipset and it will all work without interconnection PCB or cable.

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ATI’s SLI to work without connector

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ATI’s SLI To Work Without Connector
Published in: Graphics Cards on 2005-01-03