Nvidia AIB Galaxy Microsystems Closes Deal to Add Secret Sauce to its GPUs

[Orangey]

Now heres the thing however, they did not mention just how exactly are they planning to combine a proprietary hardware video processor with thier GPUs and not to mention, whether Nvidia would approve or even allow such a thing. That makes me think that regardless of what the PR implies, the actual solution might not be integrated into the GPU but provided separately perhaps in the same box package. There is also a chance, that Darbee will provide their proprietary code to run natively on Galaxy GPUs via their bios, and that is much more likely than actual physical integration. It is even possible that they don’t mean a GPU at all, rather a combined standalone product. Either way, Galaxy’s graphics are just about to get a face lift and even though we don’t know how they are planning to execute it, their Computex reveal queued for June 3-7 should be very interesting.

http://wccftech.com/nvidia-aib-galaxy-microsystems-deal-secret-sauce-gpus/

 

[Mr crowley]

would that sort of system add any latency in producing a frame? monitors using dynamic contrast settings can cause a bit of lag while playing. Even so, should be interesting

 

[LtMatt]

Any chance of a TL : DR for thicko's like me Mr Tangerine man?

 

[Deceptor]

From what I read here's the main points:

- Darbee is a hardware solution to "super resolve" images (contrast, sharpening, depth adjustment)
- Darbee is similar to SweetFX except this is much better/automatic
- Somehow Galaxy (KFA2) is including this with their cards, not clear on how (on the card or external solution)
- Unclear if Nvidia has allowed them to or even will

 

[pgi947]

Interesting. Hopefully its a stand alone unit everyone can enjoy rather then locked to galaxy/kfa2!

 

[Rofflay]

This is for movies buffs Matt if you do not watch movies on your pc move along please!




My ultimate dream machine the Oppo 105D bluray player made a big thing about the D prefix and Darbee image processing so it must be good. But will they add HDMI 2.0 and H.265 decoding as well? Because if you can get yourself a card with all three you are onto a real winner because you have something very close to 4K redray player. I might actually sell up all my AV equipment and move to PC until 4K players arrive but until then if i had Darbee and a sound card with a Sabre DAC i could have the same bit inside my PC as that £1000 Oppo. Plus i need to buy a graphics card alongside the UM95 Ultrawide so that could be a really really interesting AV setup.

 

[Sgt_Pepper]

Seems it's not only for movies


“Together we plan to create a new benchmark in realism for the graphics industry by combining our new kind of video processing with their hardware horsepower, to optimize the visuals for the best gaming experience available”.

 

[Rofflay]

Weird taking on SweetFX then? It might be useful on a few games my Dell has something along the same lines where movie mode crushes blacks and increases contrast and in certain games that have a washed out look i get the same effect as Darbee by adjusting sharpness +20 and hitting movie mode. I never was a fan of manually increasing contrast so if i had a darbee slider somehow i think it might be very good!

 

[triss]

Thanks Orangey
Looks nice and hopefully will spill over to all venders on both sides of the fence

 

[ubersonic]

GALAXY Microsystems, or just Galaxy (GALAXY) is one of the leading AIBs of the world. The recently unveiled the monstrous Waterforce Tri SLI cooling system and are now gearing up for an even bigger reveal at Computex 2014.

Wasn't Waterforce Gigabyte?

 

[triss]

I think Gigabyte is galaxy ,, but someone will confirm it one way or the other 100%
Its like Europe rest of the world branding or some such

 

[ubersonic]

Galaxy is KFA in Europe, Gigabyte is another company.