Nvidia 780a SLI / Hybrid Power

[trinibwoy]

Techreport takes a first look at Hybrid Power on 780a - http://www.techreport.com/articles.x/14661.

Looks promising if they can get auto-switching between integrated and discrete to work seamlessly. Wish they ran some decoding tests on the integrated chip though.

 

[Davros]

can you select which gpu a game will run on ?
for example if it doesnt work properly on your discrete gpu

 

[Blazkowicz]

is the 9600GT really incompatible? that's a disappointment to me.
the other problem being the chipset was much delayed so I couldn't build my system around it.

else, besides quirks the results are as good as expected.

-> Davros : auto-switching doesn't work for now anyway. but if you can switch from the command-line then at least you could, by launching a game with a script, make it to run on the right GPU. I do this to force gamma in Half-Life/CounterStrike 1.5 and Quake 1 , thanks to Rivatuner's launcher allowing to create shortcuts for stuff as res and gamma modes. Indeed it would be nice of Rivatuner to support the feature.
And ideally there should be integration with nvidia game profiles.

 

[nutball]

Hybrid power is very interesting for me. In theory. If if works. The idle power consumption in that graph looks a little whacky though. I can't see what the test setup is (TR appears to be broken). 111W is a *lot* of power to just run a CPU, RAM and hard-drive. Is it over-clocked up the wazoo or something?

 

[Blazkowicz]

the CPU is hungry (a phenom 9850), the hard drive is a raptor and it's probably the wattage at the 110V AC outlet.