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SANTA CLARA, Calif., June 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- NVIDIA Corporation (Nasdaq: NVDA - News), the worldwide leader in visual processing solutions, today unveiled a revolutionary new technology that enables multiple NVIDIA� GeForce(TM) 6 Series or NVIDIA Quadro� graphics cards to operate in a single PC or workstation for a stunning increase in graphics horsepower. Appearing later this year in PCI Express-based PCs and workstations from the world's top manufacturers, the new NVIDIA SLI(TM) technology takes full advantage of the additional bandwidth and features of this new high-bandwidth bus architecture.
SLI (Scan Line Interleaving) created by 3dfx six years ago was all about pure performance and higher resolutions. [...] You connected the two cards via an internal ribbon cable as well as an external pass-through cable. Once the drivers were installed it did everything �automagically�. All you had to do was sit back and enjoy much faster frame rates in your games. [...] NVIDIA purchased 3dfx's intellectual properties and now it seems they are ready to reveal to us a little something they may have learned from 3dfx that is built in to their new GeForce 6 series of GPUs. And that is a new "SLI" technology.
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Alienware�s Video Array works with video cards from any manufacturer; ATI, NVidia, 3DLabs, Matrox, or others. Since you are not tied to any one manufacturer�s products, you can configure the Video Array with the video cards that work best for your application.
The Video Array uses off-the-shelf video cards and drivers. There is no need to have any special provisions in hardware or software for Video Array to work. When there is a new feature or optimization implemented in the drivers, they become readily available through Video Array.
Alienware�s Video Array is not limited to 2 video cards. Future implementations may take advantage of this and put 4 or more video cards into one system. This would probably be more geared towards professional applications like rendering farms.