NVIDIA has announced that NVIDIA SLI technology has been licensed by the world's leading motherboard manufacturers - including Intel, ASUS, Gigabyte, MSI and EVGA - for use on their Intel P67 Express Chipset-based motherboards designed for the upcoming Intel Sandy Bridge processors.
As a result, customers who purchase a SLI-certified P67-based motherboard and a Sandy Bridge processor can equip their PCs with any single or dual combination of NVIDIA GeForce GPUs, including the recently released GeForce GTX 580 GPU, the world's fastest DX11 GPU.
"The combined processing prowess of Sandy Bridge and NVIDIA SLI technology will provide consumers with the building blocks for the ultimate gaming PC platform," said Joel Christensen, General Manager of Intel Client Board Division, Intel. "Both NVIDIA and Intel continue to share a combined passion for furthering the PC as the definitive platform for gaming, and this combination will surely be attractive to anyone building or purchasing a brand new PC in 2011."
NVIDIA DX11 GPUs are designed to deliver the world's fastest performance for DX11 games, and are the only consumer GPUs to feature multiple tessellation engines for advanced graphics rendering capabilities. With a certified NVIDIA SLI motherboard, gamers have the option to add a second GeForce GPU to their PC, which can result in up to 2x the overall graphics performance.
