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Lucid Hydra 200: Vendor Agnostic Multi-GPU, Available in 30 Days

Mr.B posted this article about 3 weeks ago :p.

Or is it just a refresh now the release is so near?
 
Very interesting, particularly about pricing which suggests that it won't add too much to the cost of a mobo.

Note that since the Hydra 200 has an integrated PCIe switch, there's no need for extra chips on the motherboard (and of course no SLI licensing fees).
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Weren't they also supposed to be making these as add-in cards too?

Or was that the Hydra 100 chip?
 
Is anyone going to jump ship straight away to test them out or wait? :)

I'm really curious what performance increase they get in CF. (and SLi)
 
NickK said:
~$1.30 per lane. For top high end motherboards that something like $70 per motherboard.
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As the quote says, no SLI licensing fees and less chips should cancel out some of that. Of course there'll probably be a premium to begin with.
 
That was a very interesting find. I will be keeping an eye on that.

I do however wonder how long it will take before nVidia add code into thier drivers to detect for lucid and ati cards and then disable itself lmao.
 
wakayoda said:
then again Nvidia and Ati together is already possible
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Not when you're using both GPUs to render a scene, only when you're using an ATi card for rendering and NV for PhysX.


This stuff is interesting but at the end of the day it's going to bottleneck somewhere, I'd rather stick to vendor specific implementations.
 
i remember reading about the start of this a couple of years back. so awesome that its acturaly going to surface!! a lot of things never do. this will be interesting
 
Not sure why people get excited about running an ATI and an nVidia card side by side for rendering... unless they have some extremely clever code in there - which would take much more computational power than is apparently involved - your gonna get some odd looking scenes. If anyones run them side by side before you'd have noticed that they have very different color/light levels and filtering quality.
 
Yep, ATI + Nvidia does not work at the moment, and I think it will be quietly forgotten about once the board is released.
 
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