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Originally it was planned, that the announcement of quad SLI technology will take place simultaneously with geForce 9800 GX2, but later NVIDIA decided to wait another week in order to bring some optimization to its drivers .
Nvidia promised a increase in speed by 50-80% in comparison with single geForce 9800 GX2 @ resolution more than 1600 X 1200 in up-to-date games. The new generation of this technology use two video card geForce 9800 GX2, which distribute load according to AFR - each video chip processes its sequence.
To work with Quad SLI , a motherboard on base of chipsets nForce 780i SLI or nForce 790i SLI, and also Intel D5400XS ( skulltrail platform) will be required. Associate used this last platform in test. AND discovered, that the effectiveness Of quad SLI in certain cases is seriously limited by the central processor speed . The overclock of two four core processors core 2 Extreme QX9775 (3.2 GHz) by 25% allowed to increase the video card speed at resolution 1920 X 1200 by 50%.
In heavy graphic modes the increase over GeForce 9800 GX2 reaches 60%, and this is the maximum . Note that two Radeon HD 3870 X2 are scaled better. In crysis game , the increase with passage to Quad SLI is sufficiently modest. Old games, are scaled rather well in Quad SLI.
Two GeForce 9800 GX2 under load consumes less energy than two radeon HD 3870 X2, but in Idle mode AMD solution is more economic. Related Products :
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