Stefan Mileschin

EVGA has now officially launched its new and redesigned High Bandwidth (HB) SLI bridges that should double the SLI performance on the new Pascal-based GTX 10 series graphics cards.

The EVGA Pro SLI Bridge HB, as the company decided to name it, comes in four different versions, depending on the graphics card spacing configuration on the motherboard. It will be available in 0-slot, 1-slot, 2-slot and 4-slot spacing versions and is optimized for Nvidia Surround, 4K+ and 120Hz+ gaming. As detailed earlier when the Geforce GTX 1080 and GTX 1070 were launched, the new SLI HB bridges are only compatible with these graphics cards.

As these are High Bandwidth SLI bridges, they should double the available transfer bandwidth compared to previous generation graphics cards and standard, "flexible" SLI bridges. Unfortunately, some of the first review results show that despite the promised "double the bandwidth", the scaling is pretty much the same as with standard flexible SLI bridges. This might be a driver issue so hopefully Nvidia will eventually further optimize HB SLI for more performance.

http://fudzilla.com/news/graphics/40...sli-hb-bridges