1080 SLi Bridge avaliability?

[Biomorphs]

With the pre-orders coming soon, when will the new Nvidia HB SLi bridge be available to order? ideally I'd like to buy the cards and the bridge together!

 

[X-Mikuru_Beam-X]

With the pre-orders coming soon, when will the new Nvidia HB SLi bridge be available to order? ideally I'd like to buy the cards and the bridge together!

I'd love to know too, I did ask a few times on here but nobody replied I would have thought retailers would be keen to focus on the bridges because it has the potential to sell double the cards!

 

[VincentHanna]

It's a weird situation, because traditional SLI bridges have been supplied with motherboards, not GPU's.

Is it definitely the case that there aren't SLI bridges in the box?

 

[andybird123]

It's a weird situation, because traditional SLI bridges have been supplied with motherboards, not GPU's.

Is it definitely the case that there aren't SLI bridges in the box?

the nvidia bridge is similar to the £20 EVGA bridges, so it seems unlikely they'll be free - they also come in three different sizes so how would they even know which size you wanted

 

[VincentHanna]

Good point.

Original Nvidia SLI Bridges are 400 Mhz pixel clock

EVGA V2's are 540Mhz pixel clock and cover both slots.

New Nvidia 1080 bridges are 650Mhz pixel clock.

You might find the EVGA V2's will actually work at slightly reduced performance...

 

[smogsy]

according to NV

Rigid bridges will be fine. eg EVGA/MSI bridges

 

[Gerard]

Wonder what the price will be on the newer bridges.

 

[beany_bot]

For all that it would cost Nvidia and the high price of the 1080.. just stick one in the box with the card. That way eveyone has them and it might encourage them to SLI in the future = another sold GPU for Nvidia.

 

[Gerard]

For all that it would cost Nvidia and the high price of the 1080.. just stick one in the box with the card. That way eveyone has them and it might encourage them to SLI in the future = another sold GPU for Nvidia.

Hard for them to do that though considering pci-e slots on boards can be different lengths apart. They'd really have to include 2 to cover most configs I'd say.

 

[beany_bot]

Hard for them to do that though considering pci-e slots on boards can be different lengths apart. They'd really have to include 2 to cover most configs I'd say.

DOH. didnt think of that.

 

[Gripen90]

isn't it so that a flexible bridge is 400mhz and a rigid is 540mhz as far as I have understood.

 

[VincentHanna]

isn't it so that a flexible bridge is 400mhz and a rigid is 540mhz as far as I have understood.

Original Nvidia SLI Bridges are 400 Mhz pixel clock

EVGA V2's are 540Mhz pixel clock and cover both slots.

New Nvidia 1080 bridges are 650Mhz pixel clock.

You might find the EVGA V2's will actually work at slightly reduced performance...

 

[Gerard]

Wasn't there an image somewhere showing that the bridges improved 4k performance? I think it seemed to imply it would benefit maxwell as well.

http://www.pcper.com/reviews/Graphi...ition-Review-GP104-Brings-Pascal-Gamers/SLI-C

Well not sure if it goes for maxwell but for 4k seems either that or the led one is recommended.

 

[Sasahara]

isn't it so that a flexible bridge is 400mhz and a rigid is 540mhz as far as I have understood.

I'm pretty sure the rigid bridge is there for aesthetic reasons for the FE brand and a flexible one could be made to run at 650MHz (I believe this is the speed the HB Bridge runs at).

 

[Diagro]

Oh Dear... optional bridges eh...