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Lucid HYDRA 200 Multi-GPU Performance Preview

Patrick "MACMAC" MacMillan

2009-11-13 14:00:00.0


HotHardware and PC Perspective have previewed the performance capabilities of Lucid's HYDRA 200 multi-GPU technology.

Let's see what they had to say:

  • HotHardware:

    "After running Lucid's test bed through an assortment of tests in several graphics configurations, we have a better idea on how well the Hydra 200 performs. Using the components available to us, we saw impressive scaling in most instances, which peaked at 89% in dual-GPU mode. The mixed ATI / NVIDIA combo ran pretty well and fell within the expected range of performance throughout testing."


    Click here to read the full review.


  • PC Perspective:

    "Based on the performance results you saw above I have to say that our initial impressions of the HYDRA technology are very positive. And yes, before I get the countless emails, I realize we only tested a handful of games on a handful of graphics cards and Lucid and its partners still have a lot to prove to make this technology truly consumer ready. But for just an afternoon, my general impressions of the type of scaling Lucid’s HYDRA was providing impressed and should be able to give both SLI and CrossFire a run for their money.

    Identical GPU scaling performance of 80% doesn’t quite hit the term “linear” that was thrown around during Lucid’s development but in my experience that is better than SLI and CrossFire native configurations in every case we have tested. And since we don’t have any other options to compare it to, the different-GPU scaling of around 50% of the “slower” card also seems pretty reasonable based on the additional overhead. The days of throwing away your “old” graphics card, even of a different graphics vendor, might soon be over."


    Click here to read the full review.

This is some fairly interesting technology, so let's hope that it is allowed to progress and develop properly, without being undermined by outside influences.

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