AMD Hybrid Graphics

AMD Hybrid Graphics technology is a collective brand from AMD for features of its Radeon line of discrete and integrated GPUs, promoting higher performance and productivity while reducing energy consumption.

The technology previously applied to selected chipsets of the AMD 700 chipset series and AMD 800 chipset series only.

The technology was announced as ATI Hybrid Graphics on January 23, 2008, with Radeon HD 2400 series and Radeon HD 3400 series video cards supporting hybrid graphics functionality. Originally, ATI announced this feature would only be supported in Vista, but in August 2008 they added support to their Windows XP drivers. The architecture was patented by ATI in 2005. The previous generation of Hybrid Crossfire paired 890GX or 880G (with Radeon HD4290 and HD 4250 respectively) motherboards from the AMD 800 chipset series with an HD 5450, 5550, 5570 or 5670 Radeon video card from the Radeon HD 5000 series. Newer information suggests that A6-series and A8-series AMD APUs can be used in Hybrid Crossfire (subsequently called "Dual Graphics") with HD 6570/6670 video cards. Dual-graphic-capable second-generation Trinity A-series APUs like the A8-5500 and A10-5700, with HD 7500/7600 series GPUs, based on Socket FM2, were expected in June 2012. Later, the branding changed to AMD SmartShift.

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