Hybrid graphics on the new AMD/ATI chip

Kind of a cool idea really. Basically, it has integrated graphics, but it lets you run the integrated graphics in crossfire with any (ATI?) card you drop in. Nice new chipset from AMD. Granted you aren't playing Crysis on this, unless you drop in a really nice vid card, and if you do the bump you'll get from the integrated will be pretty small. Still, cool idea to let you get a bit of extra performance out of that on board graphics solution when using a discrete card.

http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/03/18/review_amd_780g/

Yeah it beat intel's and Nvidia's in almost every benchmark I saw when anandtech reviewed it.

It looks like the best option for an HTPC in the future.

It seems to do quite well with HDTV/BluRay and right now it's the best integrated graphics solution out there by a long shot.

People like us tend to forget how big a share of the market integrated graphics are. If you ask most enthusiasts who has the largest share of the graphics market, they will likely answer nVidia or ATI. Both are wrong. The correct answer is Intel, even though they don't make a discrete card (one is on the way though, they are planning to compete with ATI and nVidia in this market soon).

http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.aspx?i=3258&p=1 is a good article on it.

Nvidia's new offering (GeForce 8200) is only a tiny bit worse, almost equal to the 780G in most tests.