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Quadro Workstation User’s Guide
Chapter 8
Using NVIDIA SLI Technology
Overview of SLI Technology for NVIDIA Quadro Cards
Professional
users
benefit
by
using
SLI
technology
on
dual
NVIDIA
Quadro
GPUs
to
span
an
OpenGL
window
across
multiple
displays,
or
to
run
a
single
application
on
each
GPU.
The
SLI
connector
offers
dual
GPU
performance
on
a
single
display
by
leveraging
the
capabilities
of
two
NVIDIA
Quadro
GPUs.
SLI Modes for NVIDIA Quadro GPUs
There
are
three
SLI
functions
available
for
NVIDIA
Quadro
GPUs:
SLI Frame Rendering Mode
SLI
frame
rendering
combines
two
PCI
Express
graphics
boards
with
an
SLI
connector
to
transparently
scale
application
performance
on
a
single
display
by
presenting
them
as
a
single
graphics
card
to
the
operating
system.
SLI Multi-View Mode
SLI
multi
‐
view
combines
the
power
of
two
NVIDIA
Quadro
PCI
Express
graphics
boards
to
span
a
single
hardware
‐
accelerated
OpenGL
application
window
across
multiple
displays,
run
a
single
application
per
GPU
with
multiple
display
outputs,
or
enable
other
uses
of
two
PCI
Express
graphics
boards.
SLI Antialiasing Mode
SLI
antialiasing
combines
the
power
of
two
PCI
Express
graphics
boards
to
offer
higher
quality
antialiasing.
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