{"id":61,"date":"2006-09-05T10:22:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-05T09:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ozone3d.net\/blogs\/lab\/?p=61"},"modified":"2011-09-07T19:43:34","modified_gmt":"2011-09-07T18:43:34","slug":"sli-is-nice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ozone3d.net\/blogs\/lab\/20060905\/sli-is-nice\/","title":{"rendered":"SLI is nice!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I must confess the SLI is a really cool technology. I assembled a SLI station based on the new nVidia Geforce 7600 GS series. This is a little graphic card compared to the high-end ones like the 7900GTX or the big monster 7950 GX2 (which in passing is really quiet in spite of its two GPUs and ventirads): the price of a 7600GS is about 100 euros, the price of a 7900GTX is about 400 euros and the cost of the 7950 GX2 climbs up to 500 euros! In terms of shader pipelines, the 7600 GS has 5 vertex pipes and 12 pixel pipes, the 7900 GTX has 8 vertex pipes \/ 24 pixel pipes and the GX2 has 48 pixel pipes and 16 vertex pipes. And so what? A 7600 GS SLI system offers almost the same level of gpu power than a 7800\/7900 for a half price. I&#8217;ve verified this fact with the latest version of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ozone3d.net\/demos_projects\/ozone3d_soft_shadows.php\">soft shadows benchmark<\/a>. With one 7600 GS (single GPU mode) the score is 510 o3Marks. With the two 7600 GS in SLI mode, the score jumps to 1004 o3Marks. The 7950 GX2&#8217;s score in single GPU is about 1200 o3Marks. Ok my bench is a small bench, you&#8217;re right. What about 3dmrk06? The 3DMark06 score is 4115 for the 7600 GS SLI system. This score is close to the ones got with a non-overclocked gf7800\/7900. <\/p>\n<p>Little remark: my 7600 GS are not overclocked. <\/p>\n<p>Conlusion: for 200 euros you can have an excellent graphic system which is also silent thanks to the 7600GS passive cooler!<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"public\/200609\/two_7600gs.jpg\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"public\/200609\/sli_7600gs.jpg\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I must confess the SLI is a really cool technology. I assembled a SLI station based on the new nVidia Geforce 7600 GS series. This is a little graphic card compared to the high-end ones like the 7900GTX or the big monster 7950 GX2 (which in passing is really quiet in spite of its two GPUs and ventirads): the price of a 7600GS is about &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ozone3d.net\/blogs\/lab\/20060905\/sli-is-nice\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SLI is nice!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,42],"tags":[197,51,53,59],"class_list":["post-61","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware","category-tests-reviews","tag-7600-gs","tag-nvidia","tag-sli","tag-tools"],"aioseo_notices":[],"views":396,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ozone3d.net\/blogs\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ozone3d.net\/blogs\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ozone3d.net\/blogs\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ozone3d.net\/blogs\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ozone3d.net\/blogs\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ozone3d.net\/blogs\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ozone3d.net\/blogs\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ozone3d.net\/blogs\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ozone3d.net\/blogs\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}