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sli技术（SLI Technology） The full name of SLI is Scalable Link Interface, which is connected by a special interface, on a dual PCI Express X 16 motherboard, and uses two PCIE cards of the same type at the same time. To enhance the competitiveness of nVIDIA in workstations, after all, ATi has been encroaching on the nVIDIA market in the field by virtue of the FireGL series. In the future product line, SLI will become the new high point. So, what kind of technology is SLI? How does it differ from past multi GPU technologies? Can SLI achieve great success in the market? To answer these questions, it is necessary for us to conduct a comprehensive analysis of SLI and review the history of the development of multi GPU technology. Multi card parallel mechanism of history can be traced back to 1997, when the card market can be said to be a dominant 3Dfx in the second half of 1996, the company launched the Voodoo accelerator card become a generation of classic mad pursuit of the fancier. In early 1998, 3Dfx launched the second generation of 3D graphics card products Voodoo 2, then Voodoo 2 has 90Mps pixel fill rate, Z-Buffering, Anti-Aliasing, 3D have the characteristics of single cycle double texture was the most advanced, far beyond its predecessor, the other competitors are left far behind. However, the most crazy love is Voodoo 2 has SLI staggered interconnect technology, this technology allows two Voodoo 2 video cards connected parallel operation, access to almost double the 3D efficiency. As a result, more than other competitors. We know that the parallel operation of CPU is achieved by parallel execution of instructions, but for graphics cards, the situation is different. The graphics card eventually generates the rendered 3D screen, which contains a large number of instructions, and how to distribute the work equally becomes a problem. 3Dfx chooses the way to render by frame lines. SLI technology will be a rendering of the picture is divided into a scan frame line (Scan