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:: PC Perspective . Graphics Card
OnLive Game Service Preview - Is this the future of PC gaming?Graphics Card - Jan 21, 2010 | 03:00 AM The whole gaming world has been talking about OnLive since it was first announced back in March of 2009 and we finally were able to spend some time with the online gaming service beta to see how it fared. We walk you through the user interface as well as creating some side by side comparisons of gaming with OnLive against local versions of the same games. 
NVIDIA GF100 Architecture Preview - Fermi brings DX11 to the desktopGraphics Card - Jan 18, 2010 | 12:00 AM While AMD is holding the upper hand with full DirectX 11 support from $99 and up, NVIDIA is trying to push aging DX 10 products out into the market. That is, until they can get their first DX 11 product out the door. NVIDIA gave us a sneak peek at the GF100 architecture, and what exactly it brings to gaming, Direct Compute, and GPGPU. 
AMD Radeon HD 5670 Review - DX11 breaches the $100 markGraphics Card - Jan 14, 2010 | 04:00 AM The new Radeon HD 5670 brings a 40nm DX11-ready graphics card to the sub-$100 market for the first time ever! Can this new GPU put the screws to NVIDIA's lackluster GeForce GT 240 card while keeping prices low? Stop in and read how AMD is hoping to revolutionize gaming for even those of us without thick wallets.
Jeremy Hellstrom | Source: [H]ard|OCP | Subject: Graphics Card
It is getting tight around the $100 mark, the HD5670 can be had for $95 with a bit of shopping, the HD5450 for a hair under $45. Now we can see the new HD5770 appearing at NewEgg for just under $85, dangerously close to the price of the HD5670. [H]ard|OCP takes a close look at this in-between card, not quite up to the challenge of gaming at high quality settings but a step up from the HD5450, which can play actually play games, albeit at low resolution and quality settings. Does this card have a home somewhere, or is the $40 you will save on the HD5450 enough to keep you away?
"Today, AMD is launching the Radeon HD 5570. At $75-85 MSRP, the Radeon HD 5570 sits in-between the Radeon HD 5450 and Radeon HD 5670. The question on the table is, what is its value when the Radeon HD 5670 sits close in price? We’ll bring this question to bare, and show you our gameplay experiences, and provide our opinions on the value of this video card." Here are some more Graphics Card articles from around the web:
Jeremy Hellstrom | Source: Benchmark Reviews | Subject: Graphics Card
One might wonder why EVGA would be releasing a new GTX275 at this time, but the EVGA GTX275 CO-OP PhysX Edition gives the old card a new twist. Instead of the two GPUs contained within handling purely graphics, this card gives the graphical duties to the GTX275 GPU
and the GTS250 only handles PhysX processing. This made frame rates in Batman:Arkham Asylum jump more than 56% at both the resolutions Benchmark Reviews tested. If you are looking at games that use PhysX and are looking at a more powerful solution than buying a new low powered nVIDIA card, this might be worth considering.
"NVIDIA and ATI dominate the market for gaming-oriented video cards. But neither company sells video cards directly to the consumer; rather, they produce "reference designs" that are manufactured by a number of "partners". Most partners simply produce the reference design and slap an identifying sticker on the card's cooler; although some might replace the reference design cooler with a quieter or more powerful solution, with few exceptions there's little to distinguish one partner's version of a specific card from another partner's version of the same card. EVGA breaks out of this rut with their EVGA GTX 275 CO-OP PhysX Edition, model 012-P3-1178-TR, which combines NVIDIA GTS250 and GTX275 GPUs on the same card, and Benchmark Reviews takes it around the block to see what it's got. " Here are some more Graphics Card articles from around the web:
Jeremy Hellstrom | Source: AnandTech | Subject: Graphics Card
Clocked just 50MHz higher than the HD and 4550 with 50 million more transistors the new HD5450 might not seem like much, unless you pay attention to the fact that this is a 40nm card. That new process has dropped its TDP below 20, making passive cooling an easy choice for AMD and resellers. Add DX11 and Eyefinity support, the usual triplet of video outputs found on HD 5xxx series cards and you have a serious card for around $50. AnandTech's biggest hope with this card is that you will finally be able to utilize the noise reducing software AMD provides as well as HD audio. Find out how AMD did.
"4 chips in 6 months reaches its end today, with the launch of the final chip in AMD’s Evergreen stack: Cedar. Cedar, the baby of the family, will be powering AMD’s bottom-tier cards. Today we’re seeing the the first of what we expect will be a couple of Cedar cards with the launch of the Radeon 5450." Here are some more Graphics Card articles from around the web:
Jeremy Hellstrom | Source: TweakTown | Subject: Graphics Card
Around about $100 the graphics market gets a little crowded, with several nVIDIA cards and quite a few AMD cards. The newest is the HD5670 also at the $100 level, which Ryan felt might be a bit on the expensive side for what it delivers. It is finally available at $114 shipped, which is right on AMDs announced price. This is a bit of a problem, as you can get your hands on an XFX Radeon HD 5770
for $170 shipped. The reason that is important is because of some testing that Tweaktown did with HD5670 in Crossfire. As it turns out, the Crossfire setup is a hair faster than the HD 5770 by a handful of frames, but as it stands it will cost you an extra $58 for those frames. If the price drops on the HD 5670 it may become more attractive to buy a pair, but as it stands it seems a steep price for a half dozen fps.
"High MB video cards of course have their place in the high end segment and so does CrossFire and SLI in that same segment, but these days we seem so content that more is better and we forget to look at the 1s and 0s of the situation. Following something that I was once told, "If you can't beat them, join them". I'm here with my second HD 5670 1GB GDDR video card and today we're going to place it with our other one to see what kind of performance this budget CrossFire setup can get us."
Ryan Shrout | Source: PC Perspective | Subject: Graphics Card
Straight from the horse's mouth:
Fun Fact of the Week: GeForce
GTX 480 and GeForce GTX 470 will be the names of the first two GPUs
shipped based on our new GF100 chip!
These kinds of twitter/Facebook leaks of information are equal parts exciting and annoying. Do we really need *drips* of information like this? Do we need them from NVIDIA itself? Don't we get enough of this pain from other online news sources as it is? 
Will the 512 core version of GF100 be in the GeForce GTX 480? Well either way, get used to the names: GeForce GTX 480 and GeForce GTX 470. Makes all those suckers calling them the GeForce 300 series cards look like fools...doh.
Jeremy Hellstrom | Source: TweakTown | Subject: Graphics Card
Tweaktown took a look at the new Catalyst from AMD, technically the 10.1 driver but actually labelled 9.12. It seems AMD might have been a bit rushed trying to get a new driver for the users of their graphics cards and instead of offering big changes and new features they set up a few bug fixes and marched it out the door. The performance differences are barely noticeable unless you are using the beta Hemlock driver for the HD5970 there is no real reason to update. Hopefully February will be a better month for AMD's graphics driver crew.
"Let's not kid ourselves. Just days before the end of the month comes to a close, ATI squeezes out a Catalyst driver, I think it's safe to say that this driver is more so to keep the flawless monthly release record than to bring massive improvements or new features. The driver seems so rushed out that someone forgot to update the Catalyst Control Center to actually say 10.1. Instead it still says 9.12. Terry Makedon @ CatalystMaker even said on Twitter that this is just a standard release driver to fix some bugs." Here are some more Graphics Card articles from around the web:
Ryan Shrout | Source: PC Perspective | Subject: Graphics Card
Ever had the need for a cable or adapter that you thought for sure you had but simply couldn’t find anymore? Or just need another HDMI cable and could use some extras along with it? The gang at Galaxy has obviously had that feeling just like the writer’s at PC Perspective have and decided to offer a solution for it.
Galaxy is now offering a couple of sets of cable combo packs that will help you should that need arise. For the online market you’ll get a decent collection of “might need” cables including a 5-ft HDMI cable, S-Video cable, two SPDIF to SPDIF internal audio cables and even a fixed size SLI bridge. The adaptors included help you convert from DVI-to-VGA, DVI-to-HDMI, S-Video to component HD and even S-Video to composite. 
Galaxy will also have an option for the retail user shopping at Best Buy that has some of the items: SLI bridge, SPDIF cables, component HD adapter, DVI-to-VGA and DVI-to-HDMI. 
The online pack will run you $29 at stores like Newegg.com while the retail pack will cost about $39 at Best Buy and Fry's stores. Obviously the online pack is going to be a better deal for our readers considering the inclusion of a good length HDMI cable (Best Buy doesn’t want to kill sales of their own branded HDMI cables obviously). Yes, you can likely find individual cables separately but with the convenience of these VGA accessory packs, that might not be necessary.
Jonathan Hung | Source: Matrox | Subject: Graphics Card
It wasn't long ago that if you wanted to use three or more displays at a time, Matrox was the professional's weapon of choice. But with AMD's Eyefinity on the scene, suddenly the consumer has more choice on which vendor they selected for multiple display systems. AMD even showed off an Acer netbook running triple monitors using an external GPU during CES 2010 earlier this month (read the story here) which leaves Matrox competing on two fronts.
Not to be outdone, today Matrox is announcing the DualHead2Go and TripleHead2Go Graphics eXpansion Module (or GXM) which connects to your system's existing VGA, DVI, or Display Port and effectively doubling the output. This would mean that for both mobile and desktop systems, all you need is at least a single VGA connection to get a 2x1 or 3x1 display - making it more flexible than AMD's model which requires either a propietary interface (mobile solution), or a display port monitor (3 monitor desktop solution). You can also add another DualHead2Go or TripleHead2Go to drive even more displays as long as the two XGPs are of the same type (Dual or Triple, no mixing).
Multiple versions are available now (Display Port editions to be released in February 2010) and at various price points:
 
 ISE 2010, Montreal, Canada, January 27, 2010—Matrox Graphics Inc., the leading manufacturer of specialized graphics solutions, today announced multiple DualHead2Go and TripleHead2Go Graphics eXpansion Module (GXM) support to drive up to four or six monitors, respectively, from a single system. A second GXM can now be connected to the secondary output of a supported dual monitor graphics card so two DualHead2Go GXMs can power up to four outputs in 2x2 or 4x1 modes, while two TripleHead2Go units can be combined to connect six displays to produce either a 3x2 or 6x1 set up.
"Multi-GXM support offers a tremendous amount of flexibility by simply having to connect the GXMs externally to your system or workstation," says Ron Berty, Business Development Manager, Matrox Graphics. "Business professionals for example, can now conveniently upgrade to a four- or six-monitor workspace to run additional applications for real-time viewing. Additionally, AV specialists can effortlessly build six-screen presentation or digital signage platforms to drive dynamic, digital messaging while benefiting from the natural synchronization of the screens being driven by a single GPU." Matrox currently offers multi-GXM support with the 2.06 (or above) GXM software suite. A maximum of two GXMs—of the same make and model—can be connected to a supported graphics card with two available outputs of the required type. Multi-GXM stretched desktop mode is available with Matrox M-Series cards, while independent desktop support is available with supported M-Series, ATI, and NVIDIA graphics cards. For complete details, visit the Multi-GXM page. Matrox partners will be showcasing this technology, alongside a wide range of Matrox digital signage graphics solutions, at Integrated Systems Europe 2010, RAI, Netherlands, from February 2-4. Visit Matrox for more Details.
Ryan Shrout | Source: Jon Peddie Research | Subject: Graphics Card
In what can only be described as a win for NVIDIA, the research firm operated by Jon Peddie is reporting that even with a very strong increase in overall GPU sales in 2009, AMD was unable to capitalize on a great product release with the Radeon 5000-series to take marketshare away from NVIDIA. To quote from the report:
AMD gained in the notebook integrated segment, but lost some market share in discrete in both the desktop and notebook segments due to constraints in 40nm supply. Nvidia picked up a little share overall. Nvidia's increases came primarily in desktop discretes, while slipping in desktop and notebook integrated.
This table actually shows both AMD and NVIDIA losing marketshare to Intel but this includes ALL segments, not just the discrete market.
Why is this news interesting? For one, we expected AMD to do much better based solely on having a better product portfolio than NVIDIA in Q4. The Radeon HD 5870 was launched in September of 2009 and thus had the entire quarter, along with releases of the HD 5850, HD 5770, HD 5750 and even the HD 5970, to gain ground on the aging and often criticized NVIDIA GeForce graphics cards. That didn't happen according to JPR and the reasons for it are likely two fold. First, JPR rightly blames the horrible 40nm transition that TSMC (both AMD's and NVIDIA's primary fab) went through in 2009. With severe product shortages during the key months of October and November, there were a lot of sales lost for AMD's Radeon 5000-series of cards. How many of those potential customers decided to wait versus the number that bought the widely available NVIDIA cards built on the TSMC 55nm process is difficult to calculate but that was obviously happening to some degree. 
Despite architectural, performance and feature benefits provided by AMD's new Radeon 5000-series, the company was unable to gain discrete graphics marketshare in Q4 2009. Another potential reason for the inability for AMD to gain ground in discrete marketshare could be the consumers lack of desire to upgrade or to upgrade to features like DirectX 11 and Eyefinity that were unique to AMD during Q4. While we at PC Perspective were fawning over the new features the Radeon HD 5000-series of cards offered it would appear that the mass audience either didn't read our site (what???) or didn't care either way. For NVIDIA's management this is likely a great vindication - they have weathered the first half of the storm; the other half coming in Q1 2010 until their Fermi products are released. Even with inferior products at most price points (in this editor's perspective at least) the company was able to not only hold off AMD but actually move forward in the world of discrete graphics. In more general news, it was great to see that the market had significant growth in 2009 - up 14% compared to just 6% in 2008. And according to the projected growth for 2010 and 2011, graphics will become the hottest topic in computing once again. 
Ryan Shrout | Source: PC Perspective | Subject: Graphics Card
I posted this update to the last page of our recent OnLive Gaming Service Preview, but I thought it was worth putting on the home page as well since it was a direct response to something OnLive posted on their site. Enjoy!
Please note that due to legal actions being taken against us including a DMCA notice given to our website hosting service, we have removed all of OnLive's logos from this article. I apologize that this screws up the preview just a bit, but the words are still 100% the same as they were when originally published! I have been been getting a lot of interesting feedback on this article (both from readers and lawyers actually) but one piece was more interesting in that it comes from OnLive directly. In an obvious response to some of the issues in this preview and a lot of the feedback to my article, OnLive CEO Steve Perlman posted a blog entry that discusses how latency is important to the OnLive streaming game service. I love this kind of communication and debate on the topic! This, in reality, was the sole purpose of my preview here: to facilitate further discussion and debate. There are a couple of key points here: If you are more than 1000 miles from an OnLive data center, then the
round trip communications delay (“ping” time) between your home and
OnLive will be too long for fast-action video games
While I understand Perlman's intent here, that is a blanket statement that just can't apply 100% of the time. In a world where my computer has to talk to 14 different systems before it reaches pcper.com, any of those could cause a delay even if I am 100 miles from the physical server. The same is true for OnLive customers. Does being closer tend to help? Sure. Is it a guarantee of great performance (or bad performance outside 1000 miles)? Nope. Also, with a blanket statement like that we get no indication of a real-world numerical value associated with the latency that is low enough to be considered "good" by OnLive. Are they estimating that the good pings within 1000 miles are going to be under 80ms? Under 50ms? Some clarification here would be of great assistance to their cause and to consumers accepting this as an feasible gaming option. Your Beta account will only connect to the data center it was
originally assigned to. So, if you are assigned to our West Coast data
center and then try your Beta account from the Midwest or East Coast,
you’ll find the lag impaired to the point where most games are
unplayable.
Imagine a map of the continental US with three servers located in California, Dallas and the DC area. Or you can view that image here too. Another point to counter our arguments, this does verify (as I predicted at the outset of this article) that I was indeed connecting to the west coast. Why they would configure the system this way is completely beyond me, but apparently they are going to be better managing connections once the service goes live this year. And, depending on how your Beta account was configured for the
characteristics of your home ISP, you may see degraded image quality or
controller/mouse performance on a different ISP.
This I don't really understand - unless they are basing that on Cable/DSL connections and amount of available bandwidth they estimate the OnLive user to have access to. Since my service runs at about 20 Mb/s usually, I don't think any of the image quality issues I saw were related to my location or ISP configuration - but the lag and latency issues definitely were. Again, this is something I stated right at the beginning of the preview. I want to reiterate that I enjoy the commentary from our readers who are both impressed with what we saw and those that were disappointed. It's all about the discussion! Obviously at this point OnLive has locked me out of the beta service so I don't think they'll be giving me another chance at testing OnLive using the east coast server...but if they offer, I'll accept! And again, as I mention throughout this preview, I actually have been more impressed with the performance and experience OnLive has provided that I expected going into the testing period - I would call that a win for the service in this early state.
Ryan Shrout | Source: PC Perspective | Subject: Graphics Card
If you haven't read my preview article of the upcoming OnLive Gaming Service today, you definitely ought to!
The whole gaming world has been talking about OnLive since it was first announced back in March of 2009 and we finally were able to spend some time with the online gaming service beta to see how it fared. We walk you through the user interface as well as creating some side by side comparisons of gaming with OnLive against local versions of the same games. 
Also, we would really appreciate it if you would DIGG our article to spread the word!
Jeremy Hellstrom | Source: techPowerUp! | Subject: Graphics Card
The Powercolor HD 5770 PCS+ is factory overclocked, from a core of 850MHz to 875MHz and the memory is bumped from 1200MHz to 1225MHz. Not a huge jump, techPowerUp noticed a difference of 3% over the stock card and seeing as how the MRSP jumps about 16% to $180 from $155 the deal seems a little lack luster. Drop by to see the whole review, including about a dozen different games at techPowerUp. "PowerColor has sent us their new Radeon HD 5770 PCS+ which is an overclocked version of the HD 5770, featuring a custom PCB design and thermal solution by PowerColor. Thanks to PowerColor's changes, the card can manage a reduced power consumption, which is even lower than the AMD reference design, resulting in a leading performance per Watt score." Here are some more Graphics Card articles from around the web:
Jeremy Hellstrom | Source: PC Perspective | Subject: Graphics Card
Fermi is the new family of chips from nVIDIA and GF100 is the first hardware we've seen from this new line up that replaces the ancient G80 which was incredible in its time but suffers when compared to AMD's current lineup of DX11 parts. With the new architecture comes significant changes to the way nVIDIA's chips will process graphics as well as support for DX11. Multiple monitor support a la EyeFinity is supported with a nice extra twist, nVIDIA's 3DVision will be available on multiple monitor setups.
The improvements come at a cost though, the redesign of the CUDA cores took time and the final product sports 3 billion transistors and at approximately 500+ mm squared of die space the yields off of an already troubled 40nm process could cause some concern. Take in all the information from Josh's review and know exactly what nVIDIA is up to. "While AMD is holding the upper hand with full DirectX 11 support from $99 and up, NVIDIA is trying to push aging DX 10 products out into the market. That is, until they can get their first DX 11 product out the door. NVIDIA gave us a sneak peek at the GF100 architecture, and what exactly it brings to gaming, Direct Compute, and GPGPU." Here are some more Graphics Card articles from around the web:
Ryan Shrout | Source: PC Perspective Forums | Subject: Graphics Card
I have a started an informal poll of users with the Radeon HD 5000 series graphics card installed on their system here in our forums to help me diagnose a potential issue. The area we are focusing on is monitor/display noise in both 3D and Windows mode of the graphics card with varying monitors, etc.
This example is something we saw in our recent Radeon HD 5670 testing - this was by far the worst it ever got and it ranged from being perfect to this at random instances. I have also seen this happen on my system at home with the Radeon HD 5870 installed, but to a lesser degree. Both systems were using a dual-link DVI output on a 30" monitor (one from Apple, one from Dell) and it occurred at both resolutions of 1920x1200 and 2560x1600.
If you have seen anything like this, or have NOT seen anything for that matter, please stop by this thread in our forums to discuss and leave your input. Thanks!
Jeremy Hellstrom | Source: PC Perspective | Subject: Graphics Card
To get the bad news out of the way first, the new HD 5670 from AMD is not yet available anywhere but is targeted for around a $100 price point. Sometime in the next few days to a week we should start seeing the cards, but AMD has to be very careful as to the pricing.
As Ryan mentioned in his review, the HD5670 really doesn't have the performance that was hoped for. Certainly it is faster than nVIDIA's GT 240, but not by much; but that is not the competition that AMD needs to worry about. In this case they are their own worst enemy, thanks to the HD4850 that also currently sits on the $100 price point. The HD4850 is a faster card, and not just by a handful of fps either but by a significant margin. That may spell disaster for the HD5670 if it enters the market on the bad side of the $100 margin, the choice will be DX11 and EyeFinity multiple monitor support or more frames. The problems get even worse when you consider the HD5750 beats the HD4850 at performance and offers all the benefits of the HD5xxx series for an additional $30! Perhaps the graphics market is indeed tight enough that the $30 difference will have an impact but it seems far more likely the the HD5650 will be appearing solely in pre-built budget PCs from the likes of Dell or HP. "The new Radeon HD 5670 brings a 40nm DX11-ready graphics card to the sub-$100 market for the first time ever! Can this new GPU put the screws to NVIDIA's lackluster GeForce GT 240 card while keeping prices low? Stop in and read how AMD is hoping to revolutionize gaming for even those of us without thick wallets." Here are some more Graphics Card articles from around the web:
Jeremy Hellstrom | Source: eTeknix | Subject: Graphics Card
AMDs next graphics card will be the HD5830, with performance in between the HD5770 and HD5850 and a price to match. eTechnix speculates that it will be a downclocked HD5850 with a 128-bit memory bus using GDDR3 instead of GDDR5.
Hopefully it will sit right around a $200 price point, making it easier to upgrade your card or to slap in a second card for a Crossfire rig.
"AMD within the past year has released graphics cards in which not only compete with Nvidia’s price scheme but also obliterate Nvidia’s high end gaming graphics cards. So it is with no surprise that AMD continues to clear a path for the budget conscience user. AMD within the past year have proven themselves very successful with their 4000 series, as well as their 5000 series, which leads the market in performance to this day." Here are some more Graphics Card articles from around the web:
Steve Grever | Source: PC Perspective | Subject: Graphics Card
Our good friends at NVIDIA took us around their booth at the Consumer Electronics Show to show us some new tablets that included their new Tegra 2 CPU as well as give us a demonstration of their next-gen GF100 graphics processor. Ryan and the rest of the PC Perspective team also got a quick overview of D-Link's new Boxie Box and checked out Electronic Art's game called Need for Speed SHIFT using NVIDIA's 3DVision glasses and the GF100 with Fermi architecture.
Sean from NVIDIA took us to a wall full of Tegra-based tablets from a variety of vendors, including this Foxconn N928 tablet running a custom operating system.
Scott Cleveland from NVIDIA took Ryan through some of the new Fermi architecture eatures using this DirectX11 demo above. This demo showcases the GF100's DirectX 11, tesselation, and advanced PhysX features.
D-Link's Boxee Box was also featured at their booth. This device is powered using NVIDIA's Tegra 2 CPU and is used to bring TV shows and movies from the internet or a hard drive onto a television without using a computer.
NVIDIA also had another triple-monitor setup for CES visitors to get a taste of Batman Arkum Asylum in high-definition 3D using their GF100 and 3DVision technologies.
Lastly, Ryan had to check out another GF100 demo that used three high-definition projectors to play Need for Speed SHIFT from Electronic Arts using 3D Vision Surround technology. Overall, we were pretty impressed with the GF100's features and live game play demos as well as all the new devices using their Tegra 2 CPU. Look out for more details on the GF100 once we get our hands on a review sample.
Ryan Shrout | Source: PC Perspective | Subject: Graphics Card
Even though the next-generation GF100 GPU is not rumored to be available until March, NVIDIA was showcasing the technology and what it can do. We have discussed NVIDIA Surround in a basic manner already and we'll have more later but I wanted to show our readers another demonstration that we captured on video from the show floor. In it you will see a system based around a Fermi GPU do some impressive GPU compute simulations in a game-style settings.
Ryan Shrout | Source: PC Perspective | Subject: Graphics Card
While we may be late thanks to awesome traffic and bad shuttle drivers in Las Vegas, we will be LIVE at the NVIDIA press conference where we plan to hear about NVIDIA Surround, Tegra 2 and more!
Jeremy Hellstrom | Source: AnandTech | Subject: Graphics Card
We have been waiting with baited breath for the arrival of a LucidLogix Hydra board that is freely tested and reported on and now thanks to AnandTech we do. The MSI Big Bang Fuzion is ready for launch and it seems that the delay was unquestionably necessary. The performance numbers are not awful, but neither do they beat the native multiGPU solutions from nVIDIA and AMD. There were also issues with games that were on the supported list, something that is never endearing to a consumer. Drop by for a preliminary look at the performance and keep your eyes open for driver updates.
"Last year Lucidlogix came to us with a rather amazing claim: we can do multi-GPU better than the guys who make the video cards in the first place. Through their Hydra technology, Lucid could intercept OpenGL and DirectX API calls, redistribute objects to multiple video cards, and then combine the results in to a single video frame. This could be done with dissimilar cards from the same company, even different companies altogether. It would be multi-GPU rendering, but not as you currently know it." Here are some more Graphics Card articles from around the web:
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