NVIDIA caves in: SLI technology arriving on Intel Bloomfield CPU platforms

NVIDIA SLI to arrive on Intel - Image 1Bloomfield – or as you would probably have heard from your techy pals: the next CPUs in line for the X58 platform. Somehow, some way, NVIDIA crawled out of its shell and agreed to integrate it’s patented SLI technology onto Intel‘s chipset. It’s an alliance that people always anticipated since the merging of AMD and ATI, yet always seemed eluded reality. X48-based motherboards are still CrossFire only, so will the PC enthusiast finally receive optimum CPU performance with state-of-the-art GPU technology in X58? More at the full story.

NVIDIA caves in: SLI technology arriving on Intel Bloomfield CPU platforms - Image 1 

Straight from Santa Clara, California, we hear that NVIDIA has officially announced that it’s patented SLI technology will be featured in the next line of Intel‘s CPU. No, really – it’s true. Soon CrossFire won’t be the only option for Intel-based chipset motherboards.

According to the press release, the processor line currently codenamed Bloomfield will be supported with the nForce 200 SLI chipset, and the highly anticipated motherboard chipset known affectionately as the X58. They’ve also highlighted full tri-SLI support from the greatest cards NVIDIA has put out yet: the GTX 280 and the GTX 260.

The graphics chip manufacturer also iterated that the nForce chip will allow for optimal SLI performance in the next generation computing platform. Let’s hope so, and while that’s in the air, let’s hope driver, applications, and games support pushes through as well. More updates as we get them.


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