The NVIDIA SLI Connector (55Y8963) provides dynamic scaling of graphics performance, enhancing image quality by combining two selected NVIDIA Quadro graphic cards by uniting them as a single graphics card within a ThinkStation system. Feature and benefits include:

• SLI Frame Rendering:
  • Combines two 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.
    • Visual simulation, broadcast, and video applications that are fill rate-limited will benefit from using the split frame rendering (SFR) mode.
    • SPECviewperf ® 9 and other applications that are geometry-limited will benefit from using the alternate frame rendering (AFR) mode.
• SLI FSAA (Full Scene Anti Aliasing):
  • Combines two 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.
    • SLI FSAA increases the FSAA level up to 32X to remove jaggies from contours of geometries in real time
    • Design review and digital mockup (DMU), Visual simulation, broadcast, and video applications that require high level of FSAA will benefit from using the FSAA mode.

     

For more information on NVIDIA SLI technology, go to: http://www.nvidia.com/object/quadro_sli.html

• Approximate height: 20 mm (0.5 in)
• Approximate depth: 50 mm ( 2.0 in)
• Approximate width: 20 mm (0.5 in)
• Approximate weight: 0.20 kg (0.1 1bs)

• Temperature: 10 deg to 35 deg (C) (50 deg to 95 deg (F))
• Relative humidity: 8% to 80%

• Announce date: 31 Mar 2009 (Worldwide)
• Planned availability date: 24 Apr 2009 (Worldwide)

• ThinkStation C20, C20x, or D20 system with one of the following NVIDIA graphic cards:
  • NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800 Graphics Card
  • NVIDIA Quadro 5000 Graphics Card

• NVIDIA SLI Connector
• Setup Poster