CES 2011: Lucid's Virtu combines Sandy Bridge and discrete graphics features

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This Lucid technology essentially answers one of our major complaints

with the Sandy Bridge processor launch from Intel this week. When

using a discrete graphics card, customers were unable to utilize one

of the best features of the new architecture: video encode

acceleration. Now, according to these demos and what the Lucid team

is telling us, we can actually get the best of both worlds.

 

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Quote: "This software solution works on a whitelist/blacklist method

in which the graphics "virtualization" is decided on in real-time by

the Lucid software package. In a similar fashion to the NVIDIA

Optimus technology, if the Lucid software finds an application that it

thinks works best on the Intel SNB graphics, it will do so. If it

finds the application will run best on the discrete card - gaming,

high performance computing apps, etc - it will run it on the discrete

card. NVIDIA or AMD, it doesn't matter."

 

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Ryan Shrout

PC Perspective

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