Real benefit to SLI configuration for Mercury Engine?

[Rudi Herbert]

David (hopefully) or anybody else well versed,

As far as the performance of the Mercury Engine goes, is there a real benefit by running dual or triple card configurations? I currently have a system with dual Quadro FX 3800 and the performance is, as expected, outstanding, but then I have another system with just one card and whenever I switch from one to the other I don't see any noticeable differences? Are there? I can still use the dual cards for 3D Max work, etc, so they make all the sense in the world to me, but do they improve CS5's performance?

 

[Rob Ruffo]

Even a 485 will give you full smooth real-time on many effects for any Redcode. Debayering, unless you have a Rocket, still goes to your CPU, not your GPU, and we've found that the biggest bottleneck is usually the hard drives.

 

[Jay A. Kelley]

Rudi,

No you do not get that much out of an SLI.. Just get a rockin Fermi and you will be a happy camper
Jay

 

[luigivaltulini]

Rubi hello, I have 3 gtx 480 in sli but is practically equal to the speed of 1
GTX 480 in CS5 , the difference makes a good CPU and the HDD and for much of the RED ROCKET