Lucid Hydra 200 Multi GPU Performance Revealed
About a year ago, semiconductor startup Lucid Logix began making waves in the graphics space with claims of being able to revolutionize multi-GPU computing, promising consumers the ability to pair any graphics card, unrestricted by model or vendor, to another card and achieve highly efficient load balancing with near linear performance increases. This option presumably provides consumers the flexibility to buy an ATI graphics card, install it next to an NVIDIA model on the same motherboard, and see a boost in graphics rendering performance close to the sum of both individual components. We recently got the chance to test a Hydra-enabled system with a number of graphics card, and have our results posted right here...
Lucid Hydra 200 Multi-GPU Performance Revealed
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This is probably redundant to even mention, but how long before the green and/or red camp say: Oh hells no!!! |
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It scales surprisingly well! You can get the best of both worlds it seems! There are games the ATI cards are better at, and games the Nvida cards are better at. But with 1 of each... The games the Nvidia cards weren't so good at, it performed better and vice versa. Were there any wierd artifacts or appearnaces when you run things like AA and AF, shadow's, reflections, etc. since they both do them differently |
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Agreed acarzt, I was very impressed with the mix GPU setup. Will we get to see how this performs with three cards? Especially considering that CrossfireX scales horribly. |
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Impressive, I'm looking forward to this when it comes to the market. Like acarzt says now you can get the best of both worlds. It's frustrating being stuck on just one platform. |
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Also, can you toss in a 3rd card and run it as dedicated physics card? Oh wait... Nvidia's driver's would probably stop that because of the ATI card being present lol Wouldn't be much point running 3 Nvidia cards when you can just use SLi. Unless this scales better? That would be an interesting Comparo. SLI and Crossfire vs Hydra! |
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Yep, that's the idea that I had when I first read about Lucid Hydra a couple of months ago! Also, I remember reading that 3+ GPUs would also be possible, with good scaling in performance. |
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Color me intrigued. I would have expected video cards to use much more proprietary communications between each other in SLI/Crossfire mode, but apparently these guys know stuff that I don't. It will be interesting to see if the benchmarks on the final board match, and if they can work out the bugs. |
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I'd love to see 3 or 4 GTX 295s working together!! Crisis at max EVERYTHING anyone? |
From what I have read more than 2 GPUs scale much much better with this than ATI/NVIDIA's current solutions. This is actually really exciting. I will be watching this closely. I honestly expected nothing more than more vaporware press releases from this company. |
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yea, same here.. when I first heard about the technology I figured they would just fizzle out and never be heard from again. But here they are! With Working hardware and good number to show us! I'm much more interested in this technology now! Can't wait to see more what this can do! |
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Anyone know if this company is listed on NASDAQ? :D Just kidding, still too early to tell. Hold your praises everyone. Once I see a mainstream motherboard equipped with this tech, I will jump with both feet in! |
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