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NVIDIA to launch 'open driver'

by David Ross on 23 June 2005, 00:00

Tags: NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA)

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NVIDIA to launch 'open driver'

With the launch of NVIDIA's second solution which supports SLI, it's not much of a surprise that the peformance and use of this under SLI was very impressive. In fact, this was very easy to install, setup and get working.

ATI's own Dave Orten stated that the NVIDIA solution was very compelling, and it sounded more than clear that he wanted a slice of the action. We will see this with ATI's release of CrossFire.

ATI has stated that its solution will support different cards, which delivers an upgrade solution to current ATI card users.

We find it very likely that NVIDIA will release a new driver soon which will allow the support of 'unmatched' cards, and if what has been whispered to us turns out to be true, SLI will deliver an impressive upgrade path.

We believe this NVIDIA driver will mean the use of 7- and 6-series cards in the same configuration.

Of course, we should not forget that the release of NVIDIA's 6600 SLI-capable GPU for the mainstream market finally delivers a lower price point for people to adopt SLI as a solution.

NVIDIA officals declined to comment at time of going to press.