Hybrid SLi, Good for Mid Range :)

[jrodga2k5]

http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2189&Itemid=1

It is a combination of IGP graphic and discrete graphic rendering together. The principle is rather simple. You take a graphics card, lets say an 8400 or an 8600 and plug it into the integrated graphic board and when you start playing 3D game the graphics card starts rendering together with the integrated graphics and ends up faster than the graphcis cards itself.

This caught my eye this morning, looks like a small performance boost but a boost none the less. Works better with Mid-Low range hardware as the chart shows, may give a whole 1fps better for a GTX lol! Certainly seems like a good thing but many will say pointless

 

[Margaret]

Lame charts, making it seem like a far bigger increase than what it is.

 

[jrodga2k5]

Lame charts, making it seem like a far bigger increase than what it is.

Lol yeah I know, but at least they didnt make it seem as if it added anything to an 8800gtx

 

[simonnance]

so basically they are saying that tthe 8400 is as crud as intergrated graphics..... if not worse (as paired systems never scale as well as the sum performance of the independant cads)?

GREAT salesmanship....

 

[ergonomics]

seriously, i can crap a better card than the 8400

on a serious note, i want nvidia to make sli work with 2 completely different cards, like an 8800gts 640 and an 8800 320

 

[Tute]

Well i've often wondered if ATi/nVidia would ever get over the hurdle of needing identical cards to make multi-CPU configurations work.

I'm excited by this as it means they may have found a way to make this possible.

 

[willhub]

seriously, i can crap a better card than the 8400

on a serious note, i want nvidia to make sli work with 2 completely different cards, like an 8800gts 640 and an 8800 320

An 8800GTS 640 and 320mb do work together , just the lowest amount of memory is used, which would be 320mb.

 

[ergonomics]

yeah thats what i mean, i want it to use the maximum memory

 

[Tute]

yeah thats what i mean, i want it to use the maximum memory

I doubt it will ever be possible.

When two cards work together, they both need a copy of the same data in their framebuffers. Otherwise latencies would be all over the place while one card goes off to look in the other card's memory for the data it needs.

 

[ergonomics]

well i know theres all this physics malarky which may be used, like with ati's havok stuff, where you can use a 2900 and an x1650. would just be convenient if that could be done with graphics instead of physics