Inno3D nForce 680i SLI

Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.0

For our Photoshop Elements test, we used a selection of 400 3MP photographs taken in a variety of surroundings using the batch file processing function in the Elements Editor. We performed all of the auto fixes, including Auto Levels, Auto Contrast, Auto Colour and Sharpen before resizing the image to 640x480 and saving as a high quality JPEG.


Photoshop nearly performs as well as the other NVIDIA boards, only dropping a few seconds behind. The SLI overhead mirrors that of the other NVIDIA boards also.

File Compression & Encryption:

Our file compression and decompression tests were split into two halves to cover a broad spectrum of performance. The first test we ran was to compress and encrypt the MPEG-2 source file from our video encoding test with the highest quality compression ratio. Secondly, we compressed and encrypted the folder of 400 photographs used in our Photoshop Elements test with the same compression settings.


In large file testing, the SLI overhead is over that of the other NVIDIA boards, but the single card speed is only a couple of seconds slower. In small file testing it's faster than the Striker Extreme and fractionally slower than the P5N32-E SLI Plus. In all cases it's still faster than the DFI board by quite a considerable way.

File Decompression & Decryption:

The two RAR archives created during the compression and encryption tests were then decompressed and decrypted.

Decompression performs on average, on par with the fastest boards we've also previously tested in its class.