Virtu MVP GImmicky? Or Pretty Good?

[Gravatrax]

I am curious about the Virtu MVP Feature that is included with many medium plus range motherboards (Z77/Z68 motherboards in particular, however I think it's being loaded onto AMD boards too) For those who don't Virtu MVP Is basically a software suite that has a few features, they are all useful in theory but I have to wonder how they really help.

 

For starters there is a V-Sync type ordeal that enables you to use vsync without the frame cap of 60 fps? I thought this was an old issue but Ive never had problems with frame tearing and what not, luck of the draw really.

 

The other feature is is that you can use your dedicated GPU along with integrated graphics to allegedly give you a "60%" increase in performance. I am curious if anyone actively uses this and finds it useful, but isn't one of the main purposes of a graphics card is to take the CPU load that would normally compute graphics and bring it to the GPU?

 

Kind of sounds like taking redundant step back, but I would like hear some testimonials.

[FMod]

The change in performance is more like -3%. The only useful thing Virtu can do is let you plug your display into one adapter and render on another, at a cost of -1% to -10% performance.

 

The "60% gain" works by detecting frames that haven't changed and displaying the same frame over and over again, so your framerate climbs while the image remains the same. They seem to have toned it down, used to be "400%" once.

It does work in very few circumstances though, specifically when you have a static background at very low fps and do something that amounts to scrolling it. In that case, it can produce smooth scrolling while fair rendering at 10 fps would not.

[Gravatrax]

Interesting, so it essentially "levels" out the fps, sounds pretty useless considering overall you might get an overall performance hit