XGI makes dash for graphics cache

XGI is also experimenting with products using this technology, to improve the performance of lower end graphics cards.

The graphics player will introduce a similar technique to Nvidia in the first to second quarter of 2005, in its XG47 design.

But, the sources added, it wants to see how its own tech is performed, and how the market receives it, before it implements it throughout its product range.

What will it be called? The firm is thinking along the lines of Dash Cache, but that's apparently not finalised yet.

Sources close to XGI claim that its Dash Cache or whatever it's called will be similar in effect to Nvidia's Turbo Cache.

However, it won't be similar to ATI's Hyper Memory, which it reckons is really a software implementation of the idea. µ