Talk:AMD Hybrid Graphics

Explicit comparison with nVidia Hybrid SLI and whatever Intel has
nVidia's advertising for its Hybrid SLI makes much of the power consumption implications. The major benefit is not increased graphics speed all the time but the fact that you can add a discrete GPU and its noisy fan and big power sucking board will be off most of the time, and when activated they'll be run in a low-power mode (with the ports off) to accelerate the IGP's graphics (using the motherboard's ports). There is in this article no mention of the power implications of ATI's solution, though obviously an always-on PC has its own power consumption challenges.

There needs to be a comparison article about the various ways IGP and discrete GPUs can collaborate, with one table listing all the features one might care about:
 * the level of DirectX supported - for instance DirectX 10.1 isn't supported in the hybrid mode by ATI (is it in nVidia?) - for each possible configuration
 * OpenCL support
 * how ports become active - generally the hybrid solutions assume you're attached to the IGP's ports, but can you attach a monitor and have the card recognize it is only to be used in certain circumstances (like games or movies, when you have run say an HDMI cable to your big TV and want it left attached but ignored)
 * exactly which cards / chipsets are supported by the solution and the approximate percentage of the line of cards that this represents

This is an evolving technology and will possibly require some integration of comparison tables from multiple sources.

In general when dealing with motherboard features like this a list of current mainboards that support them (see GeForce_8200 for example) is helpful but they must be carefully marked "as of" when the comparison was valid. Even just a snapshot however is very useful when trying to track stuff like this. If the table is there, anyone that actually researches the question might update it but they are extremely unlikely to create a new table from scratch. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 142.177.103.157 (talk) 04:41, 18 December 2009 (UTC)

Discrete videocards with support Hybrid Graphics
I cannot find info about which modern cards support this mode - Hybrid CrossFire. I see only 3470. 81.30.80.21 (talk) 12:21, 15 May 2010 (UTC)

Hybrid switching in Linux
For those who want to use ATI Hybrid Graphics in Linux: http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=276991

Summing up, out-of-the-box support would come in next releases of Fedora (17), Ubuntu and other "bleeding edge" distros RSN. And you can even do it now.

Just FIY, latest AMD Catalyst driver is 12.1 now, erroneously reported as 11.11 at AMD site, but correct 12.1 would be downloaded if you press "Download" here: http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/linux/Pages/radeon_linux.aspx — Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.25.44.91 (talk) 16:40, 5 March 2012 (UTC)

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