NVIDIA SLI Technology – Introduction & 6800 Ultra Performance

We will be today looking at two GeForce 6800 Ultra graphics cards from nVidia which take advantage of the highly anticipated SLI configuration. We will be running all our normal synthetic and Real World game tests but we will also be doing something a little different with our tests results today. While everyone is getting excited about SLI in gaming we go further and see how it impacts our overall system performance at all - is memory bandwidth not as good or is the processor not scoring as well in PCMark. We will be looking at this as well as just what kind of difference two graphics cards gives us… the same kind of performance as a twin turbo vehicle or a let down? We won’t be looking at the graphics cards but simply just having a quick look at what exactly SLI is, what it stands for, how it works and everything else we think is important and get straight into the benchmarking to see what an extra $400 gives us and the upgrade to the nForce 4 SLI chipset.

…While we would normally do a Pros and Cons section at the end of this final page we can simply say the Pros are everything about it - the look of two cards in a single system, the pure speed, the gaming experience, the satisfaction knowing that at this point in time your gaming experience isn’t able to be any better and Cons, yeah it’s expensive but so are Ferrari’s and if you want the best you have to pay through the nose for it.

The technology behind nVidia’s SLI receives our TweakTown’s “MUST HAVE” Editor’s Choice award. Enough said.

nVidia SLI Technology – Introduction and 6800 Ultra Performance
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