NVLink Is The New SLI

NVIDIA sells the NVLink bridge in two sizes: 3-slot and 4-slot GPU spacing. All motherboards are different, and so is the spacing between custom RTX series graphics cards. I'm using the 3-slot NVLink bridge between my RTX 2080 Ti graphics cards. At the time of writing I'm benchmarking RTX 2080s in NVLink and will have those results in a separate article.

You can buy the GeForce RTX NVLink Bridge on NVIDIA's store for $79, while my NVLink bridge costs $119 AUD here in Australia. NVIDIA currently limits customers to buying just 1 bridge.

The older SLI-HB bridge was much shorter, with a lower pin count of 52 pins while the new NVLink bridge has 124 pins. It's quite wide, that's for sure.