Hybrid Crossfire out yet?

[BlueAcolyte]

The HD 3450 is out and so are the new motherboards... How about the Crossfire setup?

I was thinking of this during constructing a build for a cheap friend.

 

[apoppin]

Works fine ... i am running 2900xt with an Overclocked 2900pro ... the overclocks of each GPU are set separately

http://ati.amd.com/technology/crossfire/charts.html

 

[BlueAcolyte]

No, I meant the Crossfire which would be between a HD 3450 and a motherboard IGP... Seems like the IGP motherboards aren't out yet. Weird.

 

[apoppin]

You are talking a real budget solution?

 

[BlueAcolyte]

Yes, like $50 card and $70 motherboard.

 

[aka1nas]

I thought that only Nvidia has announced Hybrid SLI? I haven't heard of AMD announcing such a solution.

 

[heyheybooboo]

Originally posted by: aka1nas
I thought that only Nvidia has announced Hybrid SLI? I haven't heard of AMD announcing such a solution.

Actually, the AMD 780g 'hybrid' is supposed to be out in a few weeks - with UVD, dx10 and sm4 on the IGP ...

 

[KingstonU]

I thought AMD announced this first. Though there are slight differences in how they work. The nice thing about Nvidia's Hybrid is that the dedicated card could be turned off when not needed and only use the IGP which would save power. I hope AMD does the same.

 

[Sylvanas]

Originally posted by: KingstonU
I thought AMD announced this first. Though there are slight differences in how they work. The nice thing about Nvidia's Hybrid is that the dedicated card could be turned off when not needed and only use the IGP which would save power. I hope AMD does the same.

AMD announced it before Nvidia and AT even did a short article on it. .

Footnotes: Yes it can power down the discrete card and run on the IGP to save power
You will need an RS780 chipset due in March according to AT (which coincides with ATI Crossfire X driver due next month to handle all this).
Multimonitor support for Xfire (evident in the 8.1 driver).