NVIDIA’s latest chipset with support for SLI has a big upside, at least in theory. The chipset lets the videocards in a SLI-system have entire 16 PCI-Express cycles instead of the normal SLI-chipsets which only offers 8 SLI-cycles per videocard. This provides a doubled bandwidth between the videocards and the rest of the system. Something which in the theory should give better performance in situations where the PCI-Express bus is heavily under load. In some test’s we’ve seen, on for example ASUS A8N32-SLI Deluxe, x16 SLI has outperformed x8 SLI-systems when using NVIDIA’s demanding SLI-AA, an extra demanding form of anti-aliasing.
At Anandtech they therefore updated their review of the ASUS A8N32-SLI Deluxe with SLI-AA-tests. The results were surprising, to say the least, bearing the earlier reports we’ve seen in mind.
:: Read about the updated SLI-AA-tests at Anandtech
