Lucid HYDRA Multi-GPU Technology Detailed

Wed 2009-09-30 - Posted by Patrick "MACMAC" MacMillan

I'm a little late with this one, but PC Perspective have posted an article entitled "Lucid HYDRA Multi-GPU Technology Launches - End of SLI and CrossFire?". If you are unfamiliar with HYDRA, you may want to take a quick peak at this article to get to up-to-date with this promising technology.

Here's an except:

"At its most basic level the HYDRA Engine is an attempt to build a completely GPU-independent graphics scaling technology - imagine having NVIDIA graphics cards from the GeForce 6600 to the GTX 280 working together with little to no software overhead with nearly linear performance scaling. HYDRA uses both software and hardware designed by Lucid to improve gaming performance seamlessly to the application and graphics cards themselves and uses dedicated hardware logic to balance graphics information between the CPU and GPUs."

Although this concept seems hugely complex, I do have high hopes that Lucid can follow through with their promises to provide manufacturer agnostic multi-GPU scaling.

Click here to read the full article.

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