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How NVIDIA

®

SLI

TM

(Scalable Link Interface) technology works:

In an SLI configuration, two SLI-ready graphics cards of the same model and the same
manufacturers are connected together via SLI bridge connector in a system that provides
two x 16 PCI Express slots to scale graphics performance. The picture below shows that two
graphics cards are linked in parallel in an SLI configuration.

SLI bridge connector
(provided by motherboard
manufacturer)

Two SLI-ready graphics
cards of the same type.
(Example: GV-NX66T256DP-RH)