ATI prepping NVIDIA Optimus rival

Posted on Tuesday, June 22 2010 @ 20:21 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck

FUD Zilla reports ATI is working on its own automatic switchable graphics technology, the first laptops with this feature are expected to be available by the end of the year.

ATI has made switchable graphics before Nvidia, but with its solution you needed to switch the GPU on and off manually. ATI’s Optimus should do the same as Nvidia’s Optimus, switch the discrete GPU off when it’s not needed, and it should do this automatically.

ATI potentially has a lot of market as it can offer such a solution to both ODMs who want AMD and Intel based notebooks, since AMD / ATI switchable graphics already work with Intel integrated chipsets.

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