NVIDIA SLI - Hybrid SLI - Tri/Quad SLI

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NVIDIA to launch Quad-SLI in March

Dell and some of the larger enthusiast-orientated system builders will announce that they're shipping Quad-SLI systems - available in limited quantities - on the 22nd. Along with the OEM strategy, NVIDIA plans to make the platform available to enthusiasts too.

Our own sources indicated that the dual GPU cards will be have an SRP somewhere close to the $799 mark, meaning that you'll need to spend $1600 to get the fastest graphics platform on the planet. We expect single GPU GeForce 7900 GTXs to cost around $499 on launch, providing that availability of the new products is healthy.

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2006/02...i_launch_date/

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Měli jsme tu už tohle veselé video? (47MB)

/edit: link

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Měli jsme tu už tohle veselé video? (47MB)

The page cannot be found

EDIT: To si to vypisoval rucne?
http://download.nvidia.com/downloads...ces_2k6_gt.wmv

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ee, vložil jsem link z download manageru (copy/paste). Stále ho tam mám tak uložený, mezi finished downloads - nechápu to... no nic. Každopádně díky za upozornění.

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Na VR zone sa objavili nejake aktualne informacie a hlavne pekne slidy a tiez obrazky. No a tiez to najdolezitejsie, benchmarky:
http://www.vr-zone.com/?i=3314&s=1

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FEAR was the game picked to demonstrate the Extreme HD experience offered by Quad SLI, displayed by the 30" Dell LCD panels. I took the chance to try out the FEAR benchmark at 2560x1600 resolution with the maximum quality settings and 8xAA...

An average of 43 frames per second. Definitely very playable at such insane settings. The genesis of Extreme HD gaming, Quad SLI!
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3dmark05:

- FX60 at stock speed of 2.6GHz

- ASUS A32N SLI Deluxe

- Corsair 2GB DDR Memory

- Quad SLI 7900 @ 500/1200 MHz per card

3D Mark 05 @ 2560x1600

7600+ points
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We went onto to test out 3D Mark 05 with 2560x1600 resolution and the new 32x SLI AA that is only available to Quad SLI users:
3D Mark 05 @ 2560x1600 32x SLI AA

3000+ points
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We also did a run at the default resolution of 1024x768:

3D Mark 05 @ 1024x768

11,000+ points

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According to NVIDIA, a reliable power supply of 800w to 1000w is required for a Quad SLI configuration.
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Retail Quad SLI is Geforce 7950 GTX 2?

WE learned that Nvidia plans to ship its shorter versions of the Quad SLI capable cards for retail. It will brand those cards as Geforce 7950 GTX 2 and the cards should be available by the end of the month.

There is obviously demand for these cards and as we mentioned before Nvidia already sold a small quantity of a longer PCB version of the Quad SLI cards but didn't brand those. Those cards were for OEMs (original equipment manufacturers) and system integrators only.

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=30964

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...zeby nakoniec nVidia uviedla Quad SLI na E3

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=31025

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CONSUMER ELECTRONICS SHOW (CES)—LAS VEGAS, NV—JANUARY 05, 2006—NVIDIA Corporation (Nasdaq: NVDA) took its acclaimed SLI technology to a new level today by introducing support for the industry's first ever Quad SLI-certified PC.

NVIDIA and Dell unveiled the first-ever Quad-SLI PC at CES this year. Taking its acclaimed SLI technology to the next level, NVIDIA introduced support for not one, not two, not three, but FOUR GPUs.

CeBIT 2006—HANNOVER, GERMANY—MARCH 9, 2006—NVIDIA Corporation (Nasdaq: NVDA), the worldwide leader in programmable graphics processor technologies, today announced that PCs powered by NVIDIA Quad SLI™ technology are now available from the world’s top system builders.

Proč to vydávají na pokračování? (a to neberu v potaz ty qSLI produkty z loňskýho podzimu od gigabyte, asus, msi apod.)

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Proč to vydávají na pokračování? (a to neberu v potaz ty qSLI produkty z loňskýho podzimu od gigabyte, asus, msi apod.)

...tazko povedat problemy marketing

NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GX2 Quad SLI Preview @ MVKTech

http://www.mvktech.net/content/view/3074/

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Proč to vydávají na pokračování? (a to neberu v potaz ty qSLI produkty z loňskýho podzimu od gigabyte, asus, msi apod.)

Ja bych to videl na marketing, velke firmy, ktere na to maji, si zaplati exkluzivitu a pak se to po case uvolni normalne.

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NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GX2 Quad SLI Preview @ MVKTech

http://www.mvktech.net/content/view/3074/

...tak uz to bohuzial na ziadost nVidie museli stiahnut

Yes indeed as there is still a certain constrain towards published results on the Quad SLI technology, we have been kindly requested on removing the preview we had published on the 17th of April. As soon as NVIDIA has agreed to make an official announcement you will normally be able to check the preview on this exiting technology. Thanks for understanding.

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Article Removed: NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GX2/Quad SLI Preview @ MVKtech.net

Yes indeed as there is still a certain constrain towards published results on the Quad SLI technology, we have been kindly requested on removing the preview we had published on the 17th of April. As soon as NVIDIA has agreed to make an official announcement you will normally be able to check the preview on this exiting technology. Thanks for understanding. For giving you an indication on the performance...see below. A custom build system with a Quad SLI component.

http://www.mvktech.net/content/view/3074/

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NVIDIA Quad SLI DIY Interview

As with SLI today, applications which tax the GPU will see the greatest performance improvements using Quad SLI technology. In order to move the workload onto the GPU, NVIDIA recommends using Quad SLI at extreme high definition resolutions with high levels of antialiasing and anisotropic filtering. Quad SLI technology isn’t for everyone. NVIDIA has put together this chart to help its customers decide which platform is right for them

http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/articl...ZW50aHVzaWFzdA

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Nvidia enables Quad SLI for everyone with money

Each GeForce 7950 GX2 boards still costs around $600 plus but on August the 9th Nvidia will officially release a new driver that supports a Quad SLI configuration, along with the list of verified motherboards and accompanied with an extensive do-it-yourself guide. This should allow users to complete their custom build Quad SLI systems or buy another 7950GX2 card and jump on the quad train.

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=33418

Neni ani tak moc zajimave zprovozneni Quad SLI oficialne, ale hlavne podpora desek Na seznamu se totiz objevuji nejen desky s nForce, ale take desky zalozene na Intel chipsetech a dokonce jedna Xpress 3200
Nemuzu nez souhlasit s tim, co napsal Inq., totiz "It looks like Nvidia has no more bad feelings for its now ex-competitor."

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NVIDIA's DIY Quad SLI goes official

As well as the Beta NVIDIA ForceWare driver just mentioned in our news coverage, NVIDIA are also about to release their first official WHQL driver with support for their Quad SLI technology for 'DIY users'. A few sites have taken this new driver for a spin, coupled with a pair of GeForce 7950 GX2 boards, to see how it shapes up.

Par webu se podivalo novym ovladacum na zoubek a vyzkouseli, jak to vlastne vypada s nyni jiz oficialne podporovanym Quad SLI.
Link na stazeni novych ForceWare je zde

- [H]ard|OCP
- Hot Hardware
- HEXUS
- PC Perspective

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NVIDIA SLI 2.0 Technology In March?

We heard faintly about NVIDIA SLI 2.0 technology and it is going to launch during CeBIT in March. Little information is available at this moment but we heard that it will be able to support mixed cards. We are unclear if it is across different series or different models of the same series.. Also there are some rumors out now that GeForce 8x00 series will be able to support multi-GPUs SLI by linking up 4, 6 to 8 cards or more. This multi-GPUs SLI capability could form part of the SLI 2.0 technology we are hearing.

http://www.vr-zone.com/?i=4539

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Nvidia Readies Hybrid SLI Technology

Nvidia’s new Hybrid SLI technology will have two modes and that will target different applications: the Power Saving Mode, which will switch off discrete graphics core and use only integrated graphics engine when high performance is not needed, whereas Max Performance Mode will make integrated graphics processor (IGP) to assist discrete graphics processing unit (GPU) and boost performance when it is required.
The max performance mode of hybrid SLI will allow systems featuring entry-level or mainstream GPUs from Nvidia to process graphics faster, as IGP will be able to help discrete graphics chip to render complex graphics, according to the company.

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/video/d...625083756.html

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TomsHardware

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PCGH-Hands-on-Test: Nvidias 3-Way-SLI




PCGamesHardware

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Těch pět stránek z PCGH a galerii jsem se pokusil dát do na projití snad rychlejší a přehlednější podoby:

http://www.extrahardware.cz/3-way-sl...s-v-hd-plynule

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Hybrid SLI will bring multi display to SLI

After years of trying, Nvidia will finally bring dual display support that will work with SLI enabled. Unfortunately, it looks that it will work with Chipset + graphics, which is not what people with two 8800 Ultra cards had hoped for, but at least it’s progress.

Nvidia’s Hybrid SLI performance mode will mean that your chipset gets boosted by an external GPU in performance and that it probably shows another name in the driver so your PC will tell you have better graphics than you had before.

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Hybrid SLI driver comes in late January

According to the current schedule, the Hybrid SLI driver for MPC78 chipset has entered the RC1 A01 beta stage. It all went well and this happened a few days ago.

The next step is the WHQL candidate that is expected just after CES or around January 10th, while the production driver is expected around the 20th, or some 10 days later.

Nvidia will be ready with the final driver, the one that will have support for both HD DVD and Blu-Ray in the last days of January.

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Nvidia unwraps Hybrid SLI

With the background being assured by the whole of CES 2008 Nvidia has unveiled the latest technology to bear the SLI name first brought to anyones attention by 3Dfx. Hybrid SLI is the name and gaming and power consumption is its game as this technology is set to address both issues through a combination of chipsets, and graphics cards.

"We believe Hybrid SLI technology is one of the most important innovations we’ve come up with to date,” said Jen-Hsun Huang, CEO of NVIDIA. “Hybrid SLI delivers new multi-GPU technology to a large segment of the PC market, delivering consumers a level of PC graphics performance and power efficiency never before seen.”

Going back to reality Hybrid SLI is the newest invention around and it is focused on combining a motherboard with integrated graphics and a discrete graphics card in order to provide both performance and low power requirements, each one only when needed. The two situations are handled by separate technologies and these are GeForce Boost and HybridPower.

HybridPower is all about consuming as little power as possible and this will be done by switching processing from a single GPU or multiple GPUs in SLI configuration to the onboard motherboard GPU. This state allows the system to run cooler and consume less thus boasting, in a mobile environment battery life.

When gaming is needed GeForce Boost will enter the stage and will the processing power of the GeForce-based graphics card with that of the second GPU integrated into the motherboard core logic. This will see the two GPUs working in tandem to offer higher performance in more graphic-intensive tasks.

TC Magazine

+ slidy - http://www.pcgameshardware.de/?menu=...mage_id=755350

btw. nevidel jste nekdo ten wallpaper z prvniho slidu nekde ke stazeni? Karma by vas neminula

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Three-way SLI - Game performance

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Nvidia to enable native SLI on certified X58 motherboards

Motherboard makers who wish to have their X58 boards certified for SLI will have to submit their products for testing in Nvidia's Santa Clara certification lab, and those boards must pass basic testing for functionality, slot placement, and the like. Certification will not be free, either. Board makers will have to select from a menu of licensing options available to them. Certified boards will also be required to display an "SLI Certified" logo on their boxes and other marketing materials.

Once a board is certified, Nvidia will provide the board maker with an approval key (called a "cookie") that it must embed in the system BIOS. The combination of this approval key and an X58 chipset will then unlock SLI support in Nvidia's ForceWare driver software. Nvidia acknowledged to us up front that users would more than likely hack the BIOSes of non-certified X58 boards and add "cookies" to them, but said it won't get in the way of such things. The certification program is intended for motherboard and PC makers, and end-users' actions don't appear to be a big source of concern.

TechReport

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Intel might license software SLI

We've learned that there are big chances that Intel will license SLI from Nvidia. Software SLI support is what Intel wanted in the first place and now they have a chance.

This decision hasn't been made and Nvidia did catch Intel by surprise, but our sources believe that this might make perfect sense. Nvidia will make a few bucks on the licensing deal, which the green company wanted to do in the first place, and the blue sky Intel will get its SLI in software.

This decision will mainly depend on how Nvidia does with its high-end in the future. The SLI chipset from Nvidia is more than 15 percent of Intel’s market, so it makes sense for Intel.

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Nvidia holds more than 60 percent AMD chipsets

According to Mercury research, Nvidia holds 60 percent of AMD's chipset market. Nvidia has held this number since Q3 2006, and in the last eight quarters Nvidia was stable between 60 and 63 percent of the total market. This is an impressive achievement.

Fudzilla

Z toho duvodu se prave neuvazuje o tom, ze by mohlo prijit software reseni SLI jako v pripade chipsetu pro Intel.


Nvidia to enable quad-SLI

In addition to its software licensed SLI support, Nvidia will also enable quad-SLI with up to four cards on its newly announced SLI license design boards. This is something that we haven’t seen before.

There will be four options. The basic one is a two times 16X PCIe design with two PCIe slots, then three-slot with one PCIe 16X and two PCIe 8X slots, three-slot with signal mix with one 16X PCIe and another 16X when two cards are plugged in, or two times 8X when three cards are plugged in.

The last and the most interesting one is a four-slot option with four times PCIe 8X. The boards with Nforce 200 are capable of supporting 3-way SLI with each slot supporting PCIe 16X or with two Nforce 200 chips you will be able to get the whole four PCIe slots at full speed of 16X.

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