
Gaming Beyond: Extreme HD
GeForce GTX 200 GPUs provide 50-100% more performance over prior-
generation GPUs, permitting increased frame rates and higher visual quality settings
at extreme resolutions, resulting in a truly cinematic gaming experience.
Figure 2: Far Cry 2 – Extreme HD Dynamic Beauty! (Ubisoft)
Support for the new DisplayPort interface allows resolutions beyond 2560 × 1600,
and 10-bit color support permits up to a billion different colors on screen (driver,
display, and application support is also required). Note that prior-generation GPUs
included internal 10-bit processing, but could only output 8-bit component colors
(RGB). GeForce GTX 200 GPUs permit both 10-bit internal processing and 10-bit
color output.
Gaming Beyond: SLI
NVIDIA’s SLI
®
technology is the industry’s leading multi-GPU technology, giving
you an easy, low-cost, high-impact performance upgrade. PC gaming simply doesn’t
get any faster or more realistic than running GeForce GTX 200 GPU-based boards
in SLI mode on the latest nForce
®
motherboards.
Two flavors of SLI are supported by the initial GeForce GTX 200 GPUs:
Standard SLI (two GPU boards), which typically boosts supported
game performance by 60-90% and permits higher quality settings
3-way SLI, which provides even higher frame rates and permits higher
quality settings for the ultimate experience in PC gaming when
connected to a high-end, high-resolution monitor.
GeForce GTX 200 GPUs process and display complex DirectX 10 and OpenGL
game environments with amazing graphics effects and high frame rates at extreme,
high-definition resolutions.
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