AMD Lasso made an appearance earlier this year and those of you who missed that occasion should know that it’s a new and interesting concept; an external graphics system. A full size workstation can house multiple graphics card with little complications, but mobile platforms or smaller PCs can not. Laptops has to settle for graphics circuits for the mobile market and even though the technology has been moving forward the last couple of years it’s not the same as a fullsize graphics system. AMD Lasso is a way of working around this by extending the graphics power outside of the PC. You simply connect an external system with graphics cards to the computer and AMD has now presented its idea at Computex.
The system consisted out of no less than than two Radeon HD 2900XT 1GB GDDR4 graphics cards in CrossFire mode, both with full PCIe x16 bandwidth.
”For the current setup, there is a pair 2900XT 1GB GDDR4 cards linked up by 2 long Crossfire bridges inside a case with 500W PSU made specially for Lasso. However, there is no guidance from AMD yet to which when Lasso will be announced.”
At VR-Zone they’ve published a number of pictures of AMD Lasso on display at Computex and it certainly seems like a possible solution from some extra graphical punch.
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