NVIDIA® SLI™ technology for NVIDIA Quadro® graphics boards is a revolutionary platform innovation that enables professional users to dynamically scale graphics performance, enhance image quality, and expand display real estate by combining multiple NVIDIA graphics solutions in a single system. Using dedicated scalability logic in each NVIDIA Quadro graphics processing unit (GPU) and highly tuned NVIDIA® ForceWare® software, NVIDIA SLI technology delivers new levels of performance, quality, and a higher resolution. Further, qualified NVIDIA SLI systems from leading vendors, are backed by a rigorous testing and certification process to deliver an entire certified platform solution ensuring unmatched stability and platform compatibility
SLI offers three operation modes:
SLI Frame Rendering: Combines two identical NVIDIA Quadro PCI Express graphics cards with an SLI connector to transparently scale application performance on a single display by presenting them as a single graphics card to the operating system.
SLI Multi View: Combines the power of two identical NVIDIA Quadro PCI Express graphics cards to drive multiple displays, with each GPU dedicated to a single display or to a pair of displays.
SLI FSAA (Full Scene Anti Aliasing): Combines two identical NVIDIA Quadro PCI Express graphics cards with an SLI connector to transparently scale image quality on a single display by presenting them as a single graphics card to the operating system.
Frame Rendering
MultiView
FSAA
NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600
Y
Y
Y
NVIDIA Quadro FX 5500
Y
Y
Y
NVIDIA Quadro FX 4700 X2
Y
Y
Y
NVIDIA Quadro FX 4600
Y
Y
Y
NVIDIA Quadro FX 3700
Y
Y
Y
NVIDIA Quadro FX 3500
Y
Y
Y
* NVIDIA Quadro FX 4700 X2 integrates SLI, multi-GPU capabilities in one unit. Only one unit per system is supported.
The following NVIDIA partners provide SLI-Ready workstations:
