#4921952

Spets

2014-09-25 11:30

I like the look of those.

#4922019

Denial

2014-09-25 13:09

AMD gets rid of the bridge, Nvidia counters by putting LED's on theirs.

#4922042

fantaskarsef

2014-09-25 13:28

AMD gets rid of the bridge, Nvidia counters by putting LED's on theirs.

:D Would have only been better if they didn't include any bridges with their upcoming cards, so you have to buy those.

#4922067

fantaskarsef

2014-09-25 13:59

I have an idea for Nvidia: Make the leds RGB capable (or at least different colors), or hand it out unassembled, and charge us 70€ for it! How would that be? :bonk:

#4922088

lucidus

2014-09-25 14:17

Didn't AMD get rid of these things with their 200 series cards? Are they now called gBridges btw?

#4922102

bigfutus

2014-09-25 14:31

Oooh, Shiny!

#4922125

fantaskarsef

2014-09-25 14:48

Bridges usually are included with your motherboard. AMD included bridges with their cards in the past.

True, kind of forgot since I bought my last mainboard in 2010, and such things tend to mix up in my closet once the boxes are opened.

#4922133

RavenMaster

2014-09-25 15:01

EVGA have been selling very similar metal sli bridges since the beginning of the year. They're nice I have two

#4922681

icedman

2014-09-26 03:27

nice bridge but its kinda funny AMD says no more bridge and Nvidia says buy this pretty bridge i could care less if they have a bridge or not but its funny to see these companies go against eachother

#4923018

Denial

2014-09-26 13:50

Wait what?

AMD runs everything through PCI-E as part of it's initiative to improve frametime smoothing. Thus they have no need for a crossfire/sli bridge on the top. Nvidia could do the same but instead they choose to sell you LED's with their bridge.

#4923100

vavyn

2014-09-26 15:19

$30 for a bridge..No thank you.I will just use the one that comes with the motherboard / gpu.

#4924527

GhostXL

2014-09-28 15:07

AMD runs everything through PCI-E as part of it's initiative to improve frametime smoothing. Thus they have no need for a crossfire/sli bridge on the top. Nvidia could do the same but instead they choose to sell you LED's with their bridge.

Right, Nvidia did the same through drivers to smooth out frames and cpu bottlenecks. Hence the huge FPS gains we had in many titles through DX9-11 over the last few sets. SLI saw some nice improvements. Different way of doing it, same outcome if not better.

#4924534

Fender178

2014-09-28 15:21

Well I liked the idea of LED based SLI bridges it allows the LED enthusiast to have more color inside of their computer. I like the no bridge idea of AMD for the 290/290x cards because it subtracts a possible problem that can happen if the bridges are faulty. Yeah I know that this can be a rare problem but still exists.

#4924546

Denial

2014-09-28 15:39

Right, Nvidia did the same through drivers to smooth out frames and cpu bottlenecks. Hence the huge FPS gains we had in many titles through DX9-11 over the last few sets. SLI saw some nice improvements. Different way of doing it, same outcome if not better.

I wasn't comparing the two, I was just stating when AMD removed it. I'd like Nvidia to remove the need for it as well.