It is much faster than the PCI Express Bus and offers much higher bandwidth. It plugs in the SLI slots of your graphics and establishes a direct connection or communication between two or more graphics cards for data transfer.

SLI Bridge or SLI Connector is a small connecting device or connector that connects two or more SLI graphics cards. Most of the Z series motherboards support SLI.įor Dual GPU Graphics Cards you don’t need an SLI motherboard as they can work in SLI mode on normal motherboards too having a PCI-E x16 slot. Some motherboard supports SLI, some CrossFire (AMD multi-GPU technology) and some can support both SLI and CrossFire. This is because all motherboards having multiple PCI-Express x16 slots do not support SLI. A motherboard that supports SLI comes with two or more (up to 4) PCI Express x16 slots and it is specified on their product detail / manual or on their web page that it is SLI Ready or SLI Certified. The other major requirement of SLI is the SLI enabled motherboard. you can use Asus GTX 1070 with EVGA GTX 1070 or other GTX 1070 from the different graphics cards manufacturer. You can use graphics cards having the same GPU from different manufacturers in SLI e.g. For example, you can run two GTX 1070 graphics cards in SLI but you can’t run a GTX 1070 and GTX 960 in SLI mode. This means these graphics cards should have the same GPU and Memory capacity. The first and foremost requirement of SLI is two or more identical SLI Ready Graphics Cards. The major requirements for running an SLI configuration are as follows: Identical SLI Graphics Cards Major Requirements of SLI or Scalable Link Interface

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