TechConnect Magazine is reporting that LucidLogix’s Virtu software will be appearing on four of GIGABYTE’s Z68 motherboards, which are due out soon. The Virtu software allows the system to switch between the integrated graphics capabilities of Sandy Bridge processors and more-powerful discrete graphics cards in order to maximize efficiency. The four motherboards that will be [...]
Lucid
A couple of days ago we covered an interesting technology that would allow two different GPUs to be used together and deliver improved performance – the results we found were, unfortunately, disappointing. Well, the same company, Lucid, has had something else up its sleeve – Virtu.
Ever since NVIDIA, then 3DFX, launched their scalable-link interface (SLI) in 1998 (although it didn’t gain mainstream reception until the early-2000s), hardware enthusiasts have enjoyed combining multiple graphics cards in order to increase overall performance. At the moment we can combine up to four NVIDIA cards in SLI or four AMD Radeon cards in CrossFire [...]
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