We poked around and asked questions, and have gotten some answers. From what we have been told, ‘The Power of 3’ supposedly stands for: SM (Shader Model) 3.0, HDR (High Dynamic Range lighting), and SLI (Scalable Link Interface). The reason why NVIDIA is touting these three product features as The Power of 3 is (once again, supposedly) because these are three features that the competition, ATI, doesn’t have and by NVIDIA’s standards, any card without these features is old and obsolete.
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In the end, we think that The Power of 3 is just a clever marketing campaign to build hype and cause speculation. If this is the case, it has certainly worked. Of course, we would absolutely love to be wrong in this case, as we’d have a lot to talk about in a couple of days if they release multiple video cards or if we actually see a system running with a triple-SLI configuration. To find out for sure what The Power of 3 really means, we will have to wait to see what happens on Thursday, August 11.