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		im3w1l on March 1, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Is it possible and would it make sense to use an SLI Bridge without using SLI to boost the cross-card data transfer rates when doing compute workloads?

sherincall on March 1, 2017 [–]

Sorry, not sure exactly how SLI bridges work - it may or may not be possible to selectively sync only parts of video memory.

In cases where you want faster cross-card transfers and are willing to mess with HW configurations, there's NVLINK.

Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NVLink

PR piece: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2014/11/14/what-is-nvlink/

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