Q: about THG's VGA Chart: SLI card results for 1 card or 2?

[Mugsy]

I'm shopping for a new Vid card, so I've been heavily comparing cards using THG's "VGA Chart" (http://www23.tomshardware.com/graphics.html). I noticed that most (all?) "SLi" capable cards on the list turn in higher numbers than their non-sli counterparts. Is this because the test results reflect multiple cards running in SLi mode, or are single SLi-capable cards just better?

 

[prozac26]

Running SLI is running two cards at same time.

SLI-Capable means the card can run SLI if paired with same GPU, and proper drivers.

When a card name has "SLI" or "CF" beside its name, it means two cards are running at same time. Not one.

 

[OEM-NIB-OBO]

yeah so basically your using two of the same graphics card. However there has been a lot of controversy to sli due to the non linear gains of performance when utilizing dual gpu's. The idea is cool but the FASTEST set up always gave 1 graphics card.