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NVIDIA to launch desktop variant of Optimus technology?

by Navin Maini on 28 April 2011, 16:20

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NVIDIA is preparing to debut the desktop variant of its Optimus technology - known as Synergy - during the rapidly approaching Computex trade show.

 

 

Synergy is said to bear functional similarities to Virtu from LucidLogix - which as we already know, will be featuring in MSI's upcoming Intel Z68 line-up - and will dynamically, allow the system to switch between integrated and discrete graphics capabilities.

While LucidLogix's solution is billed as vendor-agnostic, Synergy is said to require the use of NVIDIA-powered discrete graphics and an Intel H61, H67 or Z68 platform. The solution is apparently free - without any license agreements or fees - and will use an authentication code embedded into the SBIOS.

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Posted by TooNice - Thu 28 Apr 2011 19:16
This could be quite handy for those into quiet everyday computing (well, assuming you don't fold/game more often than you don't).
Posted by Methanoid - Thu 28 Apr 2011 20:23
Wheres the ATI offering? :censored:
Posted by aidanjt - Thu 28 Apr 2011 21:10
About bloody time. Although they would wait until GPUs are able to frequency scale, wouldn't they. :\
Posted by llololloy - Fri 29 Apr 2011 05:13
isn't this basically the same as hybrid power sli?
which they dropped from the desktop a few years back.
twas a pain in the arse as it was the reason I chose nvidia chipset for my htpc motherboard, but could never get working.
Posted by baius - Fri 29 Apr 2011 14:15
About bloody time. (Sorry aidanjt.)

Uh, why on earth does this tech need an authentication code!?

&, why, oh why, can't Intel/AMD just do this at the motherboard level - allowing any company's graphics card to have synergy/optimus functionality?

Meh.


Question:
  • Will one have to plug one's displays into the motherboard's display outputs, with the graphics card's horsepower moved over PCI Express lanes?
  • Or will the output be through the discrete card, with the GPU's processory/menory/etc having been turned off whilst not in use?

I send HD audio to my receiver via my HD 5770, although my Intel H55 motherboard can also relay it - both solutions via HDMI, respectively.

Whichever of the solutions (see bulletpoints, above) are used, the sound will also have to travel with the “visual” information; if audio and video are to both be sent to the same destination.