What are these even for?

What are these even for?

SLI bridge connectors

Crossfire in your case

Obsolete from hawaii onwards.

you must be new

it's so you can flip it over and use it on the smaller PCI-E slot

it will run at lower framerates though because of lower bandwidth

fpbp

Hello retard.

>8 posts
>7 ips
>and he calls me the retard

Hello, retard.

Because that wasn't even close to the first post?

>f can only mean first
>maybe in your autistic coding languages, nerd

In this context, yes. "fpbp" generally means "first post best post"

tpbp

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Sapphire exclusively makes AMD GPUs

>implying sapphire sells cards with nvidia chips

AMD hasn't had shitty bridges for 3 generations now.

>6210_02_sapphire_radeon_r9_280_dual_x_3gb_oc_video_card_review.jpg
What did he mean by this?

7970 is 4 generations old.
R9 280 is a 7970.
You're retarded.

So if those aren't for crossfire bridges, what are they for?

Yeah, who even needs a dedicated link between cards? Just recommend people turn off temporal AA in your driver release notes, good enough.

Fifth post best post

Collimating Fans.

>person says AMD hasn't had it for 3 generations
>further states card in picture is 4 years old
are you fucking retarded?

the dedicated link was slower and had higher latency than a better implementation over PCIe.

But the ones in OP's picture are for crossfire.

AMD hasn't used bridges for about 6 years now

Yes and the 7970 came out before they removed them. They didn't magically respin their old chips to add XDMA to them.

That doesn't change the fact that the ones in OP's pic are on an AMD card.

Here's a picture of a 290x that used pcie crossfire

If it used PCIe crossfire what are those things on top of the card?

suck my fucking dick you fucking retard

This is bait. But if you're just genuinely asking. AMD took a while to remove the bridges.

A little of both actually.

Well now you know. Even the 7xxx series used pcie and all the cards have bridge connectors

>uses internet acronyms wrong
>calls someone else nerd for knowing common shit on Sup Forums or any forum site
>is on Sup Forums
>calling someone a nerd
>is on Sup Forums

Australia.

???

I see Sup Forums is doing well. Carry on chaps.

Hawaii and newer GCN cards don't use a crossfire bridge - they do it all over pcie which is a factor into why (when it works) crossfire is now superior to sli.

You know Nvidia's marketing over pascals high bandwidth sli bridges? It really is just two of the ancient sli bridges bolted together to get bandwdith because Nvidia has done nothing with the technology for a good 5 years.

Plus the big advantage of bridgeless is you limited by what bridges you can buy for how many cards you want - if some hypothetical motherboard and cpu supported 10-way muulti-gpu for AMD you simply slap 10 cards in and off you go.

>Frametimes
>r
>a
>m
>e
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Is what AMD fixed when they went bridgeless. The 7970 is infamous for shitastic framepacing.

SLI or Crossfire

Except in parts of Kansas.

AMD still has issues with frametimes and even latency. The switch to using PCI-e instead of dedicated bridges helped a lot in increasing the bandwidth and the ability for the GPUs to communicate with eachother, but it also increased the latency of doing so.

nVidia's bridges may seem archaic, but they keep the latency lower than AMD and are still better able to handle frametiming than AMD.

280 is a 7950 280x is the 7970

Nobody even fucking uses SLI or Crossfire, this is why Nvidia has ignored the technology for so long.

Too many problems and most people dont want to have to set up profiles for individual games or have one card sit there doing fucking nothing except suck power and generate heat with 90% of games.

>Nobody even fucking uses SLI or Crossfire

It doesn't help that DirectX is only vaguely aware of the existence of multiple gpus and opengl....lol.