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I really hope this turn out to be as good as they say it is.
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Lucid Hydra 200: Vendor Agnostic Multi-GPU, Available in 30 Days
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Honestly even 2 cards from the same generation but different product lines can cause some problems that can't be worked around... people really should not get ideas along the lines of "I just upgraded to a 285GTX now I can use my old 4850 with it" its going to be fugly.
Yeah I don't get how people think you can just add a weaker card in with a more powerful one and expect a major fps boost with no problems.
It reminds me of school chemistry, when the teacher was talking about absolute zero and how cold people had been able to get their experiments. Someone chimed in "why didn't they just get it as cold as they could and chuck some ice cubes on it?"
It reminds me of school chemistry, when the teacher was talking about absolute zero and how cold people had been able to get their experiments. Someone chimed in "why didn't they just get it as cold as they could and chuck some ice cubes on it?"
lol
Well with the way hydra works if you had 2 identical cards but one was cut down number of shader pipelines, etc. they can help - as it "intelligently" splits the scene up and the weaker one would just render a few objects and then the scene be composited back together - so that can work - unlike crossfire/SLI where generally the weaker card simply can't contribute without slowing the entire thing below the performance of the faster card...
The problem with mis-matched cards is that the filtering quality, color levels, shader resolve targets/shader implementations are going to be all a bit different - the final image might look ok at first glance but you'd quickly notice it looked a bit like a patch work quilt.
Well with the way hydra works if you had 2 identical cards but one was cut down number of shader pipelines, etc. they can help - as it "intelligently" splits the scene up and the weaker one would just render a few objects and then the scene be composited back together - so that can work - unlike crossfire/SLI where generally the weaker card simply can't contribute without slowing the entire thing below the performance of the faster card...
The problem with mis-matched cards is that the filtering quality, color levels, shader resolve targets/shader implementations are going to be all a bit different - the final image might look ok at first glance but you'd quickly notice it looked a bit like a patch work quilt.