** The Official Nvidia GeForce 'Pascal' Thread - for general gossip and discussions **

[tyler_jrb]

Yeah that is pretty horrific looking . I'd think/hope there will be vendor styles. And 3 slot sized ones.

 

[Smffy]

Yeah that is pretty horrific looking . I'd think/hope there will be vendor styles. And 3 slot sized ones.

Nvidia lists 2,3 and 4 slot sized bridges but doesn't look like triple+ SLI is possible... Guess we will see. Underneath its just a cable connecting them so would imagine there will be a lot of choice with the new cards from EVGA, Asus etc.

 

[Rasphelt]

I'm not sure. The SLI bridge connects the top and bottom cards. The middle card however is not.

What Tyler-jrb said - Its not fake, its 2 x SLI and one dedicated for PhysX.

The picture comes from an nVidia dude so i doubt its a fake pic.

Same outcome though lol!

I'm (the wife) actually quite happy with 2-way as it will mean more freedom on my pipe routes (edit: and less impact on his wallet; the wife) etc.

Now, I must go hoover or something...

Cheers
Ben

 

[beany_bot]

SLi is so good for GPU manufacturers and so bad for consumers. lol. They must be laughing all the way to the bank. Selling 1 person 2 cards. That often runs buggy.

Just make your single cards much better! We want fast as hell single cards!

 

[carrot1401]

Gah this stupid gsync/freesync monitor war. Got a Asus MG279Q with my 290x, but really tempted by a 1080...

 

[Final8y]

Nvidia lists 2,3 and 4 slot sized bridges but doesn't look like triple+ SLI is possible... Guess we will see. Underneath its just a cable connecting them so would imagine there will be a lot of choice with the new cards from EVGA, Asus etc.

Indeed just 2 cards and this guy breaks it down well.
http://forums.anandtech.com/showpost.php?p=38218946&postcount=45

 

[IT Troll]

Complete fail it the bridge doesn't feature l33t RGB lights.

 

[Appleseed]

Zotac teases their GTX 1080 PGF GPU and a new overclocking Utility

http://www.overclock3d.net/articles...1080_pgf_gpu_and_a_new_overclocking_utility/1

 

[Digital X]

The videos posted by Mobipicker ARE 100% fake. There is no showing of the system or anything. I could throw my 560ti in vs my 980ti and make up fake frames.

Btw that zotac backplate looks lush.

 

[El_MUERkO]

2x 1080Ti in SLI. Maybe finally we will get some borderline decent frame rates in 4k...then again...probably not lol.

With two 980ti's I get 120-150 in Overwatch with everything maxed apart from AA which is set to FXAA because you simply don't need it.

 

[Besty]

Yup, it's confirmed the 1080 is limited to only 2 way SLI

http://www.overclock3d.net/articles...rt_any_higher_than_2_way_sli_configurations/1

nvidia spokesperson also quoted as saying:

'SLI has always been broken in anything other than benchmarking software and we want to remove support completely because frankly, we can no longer be arsed with trying to get Ubisoft to support it'.

3/4 Way SLI? Good riddance to bad rubbish.

1080 2 Way SLI? Dead on arrival for most games.

I am more than happy with that the single card rig can do over my 4-way rig.

 

[MooMoo444]

Zotac teases their GTX 1080 PGF GPU and a new overclocking Utility

http://www.overclock3d.net/articles...1080_pgf_gpu_and_a_new_overclocking_utility/1

Why must everything be covered in bling lights and LEDs these days?

I just want my graphics card to process graphics, not to double as a landing strip

 

[JediFragger]

SLI support was sadly not great in me for The Division (though generally my experience with SLI has been OK) so I ended up running it on one card.

I found SLi support not to be fantastic with The Division (2xTi) but it def got better (90ish %) over time at 4K

 

[Legend]

That ZOTAC backplate looks nice IMO. Seems they've gone with perspex or something similar, with LED's behind so as to illuminate the edges. It's different, and hopefully RGB, although if that's perspex it's going to scratch easily! Isn't that ZOTAC logo on top the wrong way round though, as in the case it will be positioned like the blue version??

 

[dangel]

Bizarre these posts claiming SLI isn't supported or doesn't work - for me I've been amazed how how well it's worked (and how early for new titles) in general. 980 SLI was my first foray and I was nervous given this sort of rumour but I've had an excellent experience. I'd say 90% of the time I've had no problems with it really, and when there have been generally there's a workaround or a driver update fairly quickly.
Certainly a single 980 wasn't sufficient for all-the-eye-candy, big FPS @ 1440p. It's easy to switch it off to experience that.

 

[JediFragger]

Isn't that ZOTAC logo on top the wrong way round though, as in the case it will be positioned like the blue version??

Orientation of the cards are different...

 

[Yaayuh!]

Perspex isn't great at transferring heat... I'd stick with a metallic backplate if i had a choice.

 

[Legend]

Orientation of the cards are different...

What do you mean? The two cards in the photo? They are the same, just back to front (and different colours). The blue one is how it will be in the case. You can see the PCI bracket end.

 

[JanM]

Will my cosair RM550 PSU be enough for a 1080?

I have a tv card, Creative ZxR, 2 hard drives, 1 blueray drive and
running 4770k on a sabertooth Z87 in my system at the moment.

 

[Smffy]

Just to throw this out there and not being at all a source of knowledge in the SLI space, how much bandwidth is typically consumer card to card? For example is 1GBPs pretty much enough at current state or is it throttling things?

I guess we also do not know whether there will be an option to use the SLI single lanes, therefore allowing you to have 4 should you wish but halving your SLI comms bandwidth to 1GBPS from 2. Unless the technology on the SLI slot has evolved and the hardware could sustain 3-4 cards with a bespoke bridge that houses 3-4 2 slot connectors... Or this is simply not possible?