I was talking to a friend on the phone and Hybrid CrossFire was brought up... I was a bit in the dark. Have you guys heard about it yet? I did a google search and there is stuff on it.
AMD is getting ready their CrossfireX technology for launch in Nov which comprises of Tripod/Quad Crossfire, Hybrid Crossfire, Crossfire OverDrive as well as other enhancements to improve scalability and flexibility. AMD will be supporting Hybrid Crossfire through the RS780 IGP chipset to be officially known as AMD G780 (ATI Radeon HD 2300). This will compete directly against Nvidia's Hybrid SLI technology through MCP78 chipset offering.
AMD is touting a ~50% performance boost in 3DMark06 by pairing up the RS780 chipset with Radeon HD 2400 discrete graphics card. Nvidia on the other hand is touting a ~40% boost in pairing up their MCP78 chipset with a mainstream discrete graphics card, ~20% boost with a performance card and ~5% boost with an enthusiast card.
AMD is also touting low power consumption of the RS780 chipset reaching only a mere ~1.2W on idle and has ability to shutdown the discrete graphics when GPU load is low. Other neat features that RS780 chipset support are DX10, HT 3.0, PCIe 2.0, UVD, HDMI/DVI/DP. Boards based on RS780 chipset will be available in Dec '07 or Jan '08.
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