The RS780 will ship with an integrated RV610 graphics core, the heart of the ATI Radeon HD 2400 Pro. The chipset part is the forthcoming RS780, a successor to the AMD 690G and an integrated graphics version of the AMD 790 chipset. Hybrid CrossFire requires two components: a Hybrid CrossFire chipset and supporting graphics card. It also gives AMD a reason to sell you an AMD chipset and an AMD graphics card.ĪMD insists that Hybrid CrossFire can take a game that's unplayable on a low-end graphics card, and make it playable thanks to the added horsepower of the integrated GPU. Obviously, this will only work with AMD graphics and AMD chipsets, but the idea is an interesting one - it could very well improve the value seen in both integrated graphics and low-end discrete graphics, should the performance gains be significant enough. You're basically taking two horribly slow GPUs and making one not-so-slow GPU. Hybrid CrossFire works by allowing you to run integrated graphics and low-end discrete graphics in CrossFire (multi-GPU) mode, thus improving the overall performance. During today's Analyst Day, AMD will be unveiling a very limited amount of information about Hybrid CrossFire and thus we're able to talk about some of the high-level details today. This puts additional pressure on AMD/ATI and NVIDIA to increase the value of their low-end GPUs.ĪMD's solution to adding value to both integrated and low-end discrete graphics is through what it is calling Hybrid CrossFire. However, Intel recently committed to accelerating its integrated graphics roadmap, resulting in much faster integrated GPUs over the coming years. Since Intel ships the vast majority of integrated GPUs, and since its integrated GPUs don't perform all that well, the market is ripe for both ATI and NVIDIA to step in and offer something slightly better, for minimal cost. Much of the very low-end discrete graphics market exists because of Intel, believe it or not. We would counter that they're not likely to become hardcore gamers because they can't play the games, but we'll save that debate for another day.
ATI and NVIDIA have always argued that users of such low-end graphics aren't hardcore gamers and thus don't mind not being able to play the latest games. The problem is that a gamer who actually wants to play something like Unreal Tournament 3 or Crysis can't do so on either of the aforementioned solutions, and if he/she only has $70 to spend on a GPU, that's unfortunately not going to be enough to solve their problem.
There are two types of graphics that do a horrible job at running the latest 3D games: integrated graphics, and low-end discrete GPUs.
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