News - NVIDIA to launch desktop variant of Optimus technology?

[HEXUS]

Synergy is the name, and graphics switching is the game.

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[TooNice]

This could be quite handy for those into quiet everyday computing (well, assuming you don't fold/game more often than you don't).

[Methanoid]

Wheres the ATI offering?

[aidanjt]

About bloody time. Although they would wait until GPUs are able to frequency scale, wouldn't they. :\

[llololloy]

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.

[baius]

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.