I’ve really loved the theory behind Lucid’s Virtu technology, a hybrid multi-GPU system that allows you to use AMD and NVidia GPU’s at the same time. BenchmarkReviews takes the new ASUS P8Z68-V Pro board out for a spin with the new Lucid Virtu stuff, and finds it promising but complicated.
Virtu’s i-Mode supports only a single, single-GPU graphics card, while d-Mode supports multi-GPU graphics cards as well as CrossFireX and NVIDIA SLI configurations. Lucid claims the Virtu technology will work equally well with video cards from NVIDIA or AMD. NVIDIA’s forthcoming Synergy technology, which ASUS will supply via an update to P8Z68 motherboard owners, will only work with NVIDIA graphics cards.
Toward the end, they talk about the many complexities of the system. It sounds like it still has lots of problems, requiring reboots and such to get some features to work between the two card. Hopefully they can keep developing it and get a better version out soon.
