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Since the post with the product page got merged here: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/graphics-cards/rtx-2080-ti/ https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/gra

by etiam 8y ago

Since the post with the product page got merged here: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/graphics-cards/rtx-2080-ti/ https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/graphics-cards/rtx-2080... Most of it is dramatically lit renderings of fans and vacuous marketing-speak of course, but there's a tidbit near the bottom of the page about NVLink I find interesting. "GeForce RTX™ NVLINK™ Bridge The GeForce RTX™ NVLink™ bridge connects two NVLink SLI-ready graphics cards with 50X the transfer bandwidth of previous technologies." I guess NVLink is finally becoming relevant as a consumer technology then? Do you think this will be the GPU generation when consumer motherboards capable of pushing things to the GPU by NVLink will appear as well?

PeCaN 8y ago
> Do you think this will be the GPU generation when consumer motherboards capable of pushing things to the GPU by NVLink will appear as well? first you'll need CPUs that support NVLink, and that's currently limited to the not so consumer oriented POWER9.
- lightsighter 8y ago
  NVLink works fine between GPUs even if the CPUs are x86. Just look at the NVIDIA DGX boxes/stations. https://devblogs.nvidia.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/NVLink-topology-e1491278374674.png https://devblogs.nvidia.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/NVLin...
- zamadatix 8y ago
  "NVLink is a wire-based communications protocol for near-range semiconductor communications developed by Nvidia that can be used for data and control code transfers in processor systems between CPUs and GPUs and solely between GPUs" Sounds like you're assuming operational mode A when this is going to be operational mode B.