Lucid Chips on Graphics Cards?
Rumour Mill in Overdrive
Published: 22nd September 2010 | Source: OC3D |
Lucid On Graphics Cards?
We don't often post rumours here at OC3D because it would be all-too-easy to fill our pages with every tiny glimmer of something that might not come to pass, and we prefer to only report those things that we feel are either true, or the rumour is so widely discussed that it's not just vaporware.
Such a rumour that has been growing in speed and volume is that the excellent Lucid Hydra 200 chip we've seen on a range of motherboards recently might be making the leap from the motherboard to the graphics card.
This would make a huge amount of sense because you would no longer be restricted to buying a new, Lucid equipped, motherboard but could take advantage of the many benefits of the Lucid Hydra chip just by purchasing a new graphics card and slotting it into your current system.
For those who are unaware the Lucid Hydra chip allows you to use either SLI or Crossfire without a bridge between the two cards and, most importantly, use an ATI and nVidia card in the same system with little to no performance loss over using them partnered to their native GPUs.
We don't have anything firm, but with the sudden increase in chatter about the possibility, coupled to the likelyhood of the ATI 6 series of cards appearing around the end of 2010/early quarter one 2011, it doesn't take a genius to see what the possible future is.
As soon as we have something 100% concrete we'll let you know, but for now it's something we'd definitely stick a bit of money on.
Does the thought of keeping your current motherboard and gaining the Lucid benefits excite you as much as it does us? If so discuss in our forums.
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I have to say I love the idea of it actually working. But I don't love the idea of it being anything like quadfire
I really hope this works out well, could deffo be the future IMO.Quote
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Originally Posted by AMDFTW
seems abit odd a 460 next to a 5850,and then i guess the fastest scales to the slowest |
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HYDRA Engine is a brand name for a multi-GPU solution developed by Lucid Logix. Similar to nVidia's SLI and ATI's Crossfire-technologies, Hydra allows linking several video cards together producing a single output and higher performance. Unlike SLI and CrossFire however, Hydra allows video cards from different chip manufactures to be linked together. Lucid claims it can do so with near to linear scaling of performance, i.e. two video cards equals twice the performance. The technology consists of both hardware on the motherboard and device drivers.
Currently there are two chips released under the Hydra Engine brand: Hydra 100 and Hydra 200. The basic concept behind the hardware is to intercept Microsoft DirectX or OpenGL sent to the video cards from the CPU and split these up to divide the calculation task fairly amongst the present GPUs. |
See the bit in bold? Hmmmmmmmmmm.. *scratches chin*. I'll believe it when I see it...Quote
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Originally Posted by AMDFTW
whats evolutional about it then |
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Originally Posted by tinytomlogan
ummmm what about the lucid chip poking out the bottom? |
At it's current price point They would most likely sell more 5770's than 5870's with the lucid chip.
Just my thought on the matter however others will likely feel I am out wandering in left field having a pint or two too many on this one
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Originally Posted by AMD_PBz
I think the 5770 is a perfect card to test the technology with sway some green team to buy from the red.. er I mean the other Green team use 5770 for gaming with say 9800gt for physx for example. At it's current price point They would most likely sell more 5770's than 5870's with the lucid chip. Just my thought on the matter however others will likely feel I am out wandering in left field having a pint or two too many on this one |
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