ATI MVP Dual Card Rendering Details Emerge

The Register - ATI’s system - apparently dubbed Multi Video Processing (MVP) - will, like Nvidia’s rival SLi technique, speed image rendering by getting two GPUs to co-operatively render each 3D scene.

Citing a number of sources, [Hexus] claims ATI’s approach uses a master/slave system. The slave card can be any ATI board - only the master card needs to specifically support MVP. Nvidia’s alternative requires two SLi-compatible boards to be used.

Hexus - So now you’re thinking how cool is this, and you want one…. well, erm… the thing is right now there aren’t actually any of these cards available, so although ATi have done us all a favour by building in a level of future proofing by maintaining the use of ‘older’ cards for us, we can’t actually go ATi MVP right now.