Nvidia's Hybrid SLI is Reaching its End

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Nvidia's Hybrid SLI is Reaching its End

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At CES 2008, Nvidia announced a new power saving multi-GPU technology known as Hybrid SLI. There were originally two concepts behind this technology.

The first idea, known as Hybrid Power, significantly reduces system power draw in non-GPU intensive applications when a system with certain integrated Nvidia GeForce motherboard GPU and certain discrete Nvidia GeForce graphics card models is running on Windows Vista. The second idea, known as GeForce Boost, combines the power of an mGPU with a discrete GPU in order to deliver higher performance.

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Is this the shortest lived technology ever? :lol:

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IronManForever said:
Is this the shortest lived technology ever?

Nah, I expect Nvidia's GeForce 3D Vision to be.

Hybrid SLI may not be usable when the strength difference of the GPUs are damn low, but hybrid power ? thats AWESOME. Even ATI does not have it.

yes hybrid power sounds really great

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I just seen that ATI has come out with hybrid crossfire now so I don't know about ATI not having it??? I think Nvidia will hang on for a bit with this technology. I use it and it is great.

MetalheadGautham said:
Hybrid SLI may not be usable when the strength difference of the GPUs are damn low, but hybrid power ? thats AWESOME. Even ATI does not have it.

They do now

jaimcnutt said:
I just seen that ATI has come out with hybrid crossfire now so I don't know about ATI not having it??? I think Nvidia will hang on for a bit with this technology. I use it and it is great.

They do now

ATI has had hybrid crossfire longer than nvidia has had hybrid SLI.

I am talking about hybrid power not hybrid SLI.

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I see I guess I misunderstood you. Hybrid SLI though is broken down into two categories which are Geforce boost and hybrid power. You have to have a Hybrid SLI capable mobo and GPU to use either of them while the Geforce boost only works on their lower end video cards.

Thankfully Hybrid CrossFireX is here to stay. Helps when mostly we buy 780G or 790GX mobos and if there's a high end gpu, there's lots of power saving.