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Lucid Virtu GPU Virtualization Software

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According to PC Perspective, Lucid's new Virtu GPU virtualization software will marry the integrated graphics features of the Sandy Bridge Intel processor with your current discreet graphics card. Here's a quote from the review:

Despite an early hiccup in our testing due to the AMD compatibility issue, the Lucid Virtu software has impressed me. The idea for the technology is well founded and solves one of the few problems we had with the Intel 2nd Generation Core processor family that launched in January. The architecture of the purely software-based solution is cleverly intuitive and Lucid seems to think they really have solved it for good.
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Ohhh I see what it's used for, now I read the article. Pretty clever stuff, but for the limitation of needing to use the IGP's output connectors. Another great idea from Lucid marred by unfortunate problems.
 
Agreed

Middleware rarely succeeds in the consumer world. I can't actually see this going anywhere unless it gets bought/licensed and integrated directly by AMD, Nvidia or both. Similar to what happened with physics engines.
 
Yeah, lots of cool ideas Lucid, but always running into the wall that is real life.
 
This isn't new, its the same thing as Nvidia's Optimus for laptops except generalized so it can work with AMD and desktops too.

I think the problem there is that Nvidia already has a huge brand around this and the desktop market doesn't really reward for saving a few watts of power (the difference between integrated gpu and discrete gpu idle) the way the laptop market does (battery life!).

So just to differentiate from what's already out there they have to pay to support configurations where most people don't really care about saving minimal amounts of power. That and most enthusiast motherboards won't even have the IGP connection.

If the power savings were hundreds of watts all the time I could see this being worth the hassles the immature technology will surely bring. But it's not saving hundreds of watts.

Also what's the advantage of being able to run video on the IGP at the same time as graphics on the GPU as they've mentioned in the article? GPUs already have dedicated hardware for handling video at low power modes, and they can handle rendering and video at the same time today.

I thought it was also funny that Lucid made a point of saying the whitelisted apps are not profiles the way Nvidia and AMD have. Umm so what are they? They sure look like app name based profiles to me.
 
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What would one use this for?
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BlueStorm said:
Also what's the advantage of being able to run video on the IGP at the same time as graphics on the GPU as they've mentioned in the article? GPUs already have dedicated hardware for handling video at low power modes, and they can handle rendering and video at the same time today.
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You need to run video through SB's GPU to use QuickSync

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4083/...-core-i7-2600k-i5-2500k-core-i3-2100-tested/9
 
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