[Kal-EL]

http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3646

[69_Goat]

It'll sure be interesting to see how well this works.

[punx223]

lucid hydra... all the bandwidth, hopefully less lag than nf200

[Neuromancer]

It has to have more latency than existing dual GPU setups. Since GPU performance is not synchronous, the data has to be split, sent to GPUs, processed, sent back to chipset and reassembled before going BACK to the video card and going out to monitor.

At least I think..I have been known to be way off base

[FACE]

how would this work @ the bot and on gpuz? These are my questions that hump your brain!

[Chicken Patty]

this is some pretty cool stuff. If they pull it off correctly it will be interesting to see what performance gains you get and how well it works.

[Neuromancer]

No clue how they will work this at the bot. Can you compare a hydra chip to a crossfire SLI setup? Maybe gloabally, but not HW boint wise I would think...(not talking about mixed cards, just pairs/tris/quads)

Well they went with the first chip on P55. Which works well will add between 36 and 74 dollars depending on the number of "lanes" it adds, which is ridiculous since it is running on a single 16x link LOL

But its a good move, despite being geared a "budget" setup intel users are used to dropping 400 or more on a CPU/Mobo combo, so the extra money for hydra will be nothing new to historical Intel shoppers. Where it gets these "extra lanes" from is interesting, they said the hydra chip had improved performance, near 100% scalability before. Obviously, this is due to reduced overhead. If so then why "create" hypertransport lanes out of nothing. Only reason to have more t ha nthe CPU is providing is for intercommunication, which means overhead. And for that matter how could they have less overhead with asynchronous setups?

Boggles the mind, cant wait to see it in action and see some whitepapers on the layout.

[Chicken Patty]

Originally Posted by Neuromancer

No clue how they will work this at the bot. Can you compare a hydra chip to a crossfire SLI setup? Maybe gloabally, but not HW boint wise I would think...(not talking about mixed cards, just pairs/tris/quads)

Well they went with the first chip on P55. Which works well will add between 36 and 74 dollars depending on the number of "lanes" it adds, which is ridiculous since it is running on a single 16x link LOL

But its a good move, despite being geared a "budget" setup intel users are used to dropping 400 or more on a CPU/Mobo combo, so the extra money for hydra will be nothing new to historical Intel shoppers. Where it gets these "extra lanes" from is interesting, they said the hydra chip had improved performance, near 100% scalability before. Obviously, this is due to reduced overhead. If so then why "create" hypertransport lanes out of nothing. Only reason to have more t ha nthe CPU is providing is for intercommunication, which means overhead. And for that matter how could they have less overhead with asynchronous setups?

Boggles the mind, cant wait to see it in action and see some whitepapers on the layout.

My mind is boggled as well my friend. I want to see this thing in action already as well!

[Kal-EL]

More on Lucid

Originally Posted by techpowerup

LucidLogix Fires up Multi-GPU Computing With Faster, More Flexible HYDRA 200 Chip
LucidLogix (Lucid) today introduced the HYDRA 200 real time distributed processing engine designed to bring multi-GPU computing to the masses.

For the first time ever, motherboard, graphics card manufacturers and users can have the flexibility to use different combinations of GPUs from AMD (ATI) and NVIDIA in notebooks and PCs. The solution delivers faster 3D graphics at consumer price points.

The new HYDRA 200 SoC is Lucid’s second generation parallel graphics processor that works with any GPU, CPU or chipset to provide scalable 3D graphics performance in a multi-GPU computing environment. On display for the first time at IDF 2009 (booth 213) HYDRA 200 is faster, more flexible, smaller and more power-efficient than its predecessor silicon, the HYDRA 100.

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[Gutterz]

I cant wait. Hopefully their will be a 1366 board.