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Lucid Hydra vs SLI vs CFX: 13 multi-card config tested
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Uhh, the concepts been around for ages and this time last year when I last saw anything benched it scaled pretty damn good!
Well looking at the benchmarks on that link 480+5870 is like half the speed of 5870 CF. The 480 is faster than a 5870 so it should be faster than 5870 CF but the scaling for mixing seems pretty bad to me.
In theory, this is a brilliant idea... probably why Asus gave their support to it.
In reality though, it's just way too much fiddly work for this to even be worth considering as it's up against some serious performance. We even see sli/xfire performance figs of over 100%!! that's how good multi-gpu scaling has become and it'll just keep getting better.
In reality though, it's just way too much fiddly work for this to even be worth considering as it's up against some serious performance. We even see sli/xfire performance figs of over 100%!! that's how good multi-gpu scaling has become and it'll just keep getting better.
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In theory, its useless and utterly pointless, as theres existing platforms that need less money, less effort, less driver support and work out the box in many configurations already.
Its taken them the best part of 3 years to get to the stage that some games are slower than on a single card, and some just about manage to match sli/xfire scaling, and the rest are inbetween but significantly worse than sli/xfire as standard, problem is its been at that level for the best part of 18 months with not much sign of improving.
What does it bring to the table, more trouble than its worth, extra cost, no support, basically its pointless.
At best it was only ever going to match sli/xfire but cost more, best case scenario there wasn't a single positive reason to go for it unless, errm, a terrorist takes out the HQ of either AMD or Nvidia so you can't xfire or sli your current card in the future, barring one company going under quickly with no warning, theres no reason for it at all.
Not much different from Ageia most likely, a company comes in, tries to push their way into the market via advertising and promises and gets someone to buy them out rather than have them be a pain in the bum for years. My guess would be Lucid hoped to show better scaling than SLi of xfire and have one company buy their IP to use as a basis for increasing sli/xfire performance. Problem being that AMD/Nvidia both scale at effectively 90%+ in the best games, and 70% in the worst games with the vast majority now above 80-85%, they've basically got all the performance you're ever going to get Lucid's tech won't offer either company any improvement.
Its taken them the best part of 3 years to get to the stage that some games are slower than on a single card, and some just about manage to match sli/xfire scaling, and the rest are inbetween but significantly worse than sli/xfire as standard, problem is its been at that level for the best part of 18 months with not much sign of improving.
What does it bring to the table, more trouble than its worth, extra cost, no support, basically its pointless.
At best it was only ever going to match sli/xfire but cost more, best case scenario there wasn't a single positive reason to go for it unless, errm, a terrorist takes out the HQ of either AMD or Nvidia so you can't xfire or sli your current card in the future, barring one company going under quickly with no warning, theres no reason for it at all.
Not much different from Ageia most likely, a company comes in, tries to push their way into the market via advertising and promises and gets someone to buy them out rather than have them be a pain in the bum for years. My guess would be Lucid hoped to show better scaling than SLi of xfire and have one company buy their IP to use as a basis for increasing sli/xfire performance. Problem being that AMD/Nvidia both scale at effectively 90%+ in the best games, and 70% in the worst games with the vast majority now above 80-85%, they've basically got all the performance you're ever going to get Lucid's tech won't offer either company any improvement.