http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/lucid-logix-hydra-tech-brings-together-any-gpus-for-powerful-mat/ Engadget Comments for Lucid Logix HYDRA tech brings together any GPUs for powerful matrimony http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2010 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/lucid-logix-hydra-tech-brings-together-any-gpus-for-powerful-mat/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/lucid-logix-hydra-tech-brings-together-any-gpus-for-powerful-mat/

lol]]>Jul 14th 2008 12:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/lucid-logix-hydra-tech-brings-together-any-gpus-for-powerful-mat/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/lucid-logix-hydra-tech-brings-together-any-gpus-for-powerful-mat/Jul 14th 2008 1:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/lucid-logix-hydra-tech-brings-together-any-gpus-for-powerful-mat/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/lucid-logix-hydra-tech-brings-together-any-gpus-for-powerful-mat/Jul 14th 2008 1:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/lucid-logix-hydra-tech-brings-together-any-gpus-for-powerful-mat/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/lucid-logix-hydra-tech-brings-together-any-gpus-for-powerful-mat/Jul 14th 2008 1:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/lucid-logix-hydra-tech-brings-together-any-gpus-for-powerful-mat/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/lucid-logix-hydra-tech-brings-together-any-gpus-for-powerful-mat/
You get the best of both worlds from Nvidia and ATI-- each one complementing their strengths and weaknesses.

Let's hope it's affordable or if any motherboard manufacturer actually implements this.]]>Jul 14th 2008 1:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/lucid-logix-hydra-tech-brings-together-any-gpus-for-powerful-mat/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/lucid-logix-hydra-tech-brings-together-any-gpus-for-powerful-mat/Jul 14th 2008 1:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/lucid-logix-hydra-tech-brings-together-any-gpus-for-powerful-mat/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/lucid-logix-hydra-tech-brings-together-any-gpus-for-powerful-mat/Jul 14th 2008 5:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/lucid-logix-hydra-tech-brings-together-any-gpus-for-powerful-mat/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/lucid-logix-hydra-tech-brings-together-any-gpus-for-powerful-mat/You've never taken a math class, have you?]]>Jul 15th 2008 12:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/lucid-logix-hydra-tech-brings-together-any-gpus-for-powerful-mat/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/lucid-logix-hydra-tech-brings-together-any-gpus-for-powerful-mat/
However the 4870x2 card has two GPUs, which could have led to Cube's statement. I'm going to assume he knows what he was talking about, just used a poor choice of words. Maybe he hit "Add Your Comments" as he realized what was really going on, like I just did.]]>Jul 15th 2008 12:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/lucid-logix-hydra-tech-brings-together-any-gpus-for-powerful-mat/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/lucid-logix-hydra-tech-brings-together-any-gpus-for-powerful-mat/Jul 14th 2008 1:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/lucid-logix-hydra-tech-brings-together-any-gpus-for-powerful-mat/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/lucid-logix-hydra-tech-brings-together-any-gpus-for-powerful-mat/Jul 14th 2008 9:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/lucid-logix-hydra-tech-brings-together-any-gpus-for-powerful-mat/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/lucid-logix-hydra-tech-brings-together-any-gpus-for-powerful-mat/
above linear = upconverting]]>Jul 15th 2008 9:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/lucid-logix-hydra-tech-brings-together-any-gpus-for-powerful-mat/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/lucid-logix-hydra-tech-brings-together-any-gpus-for-powerful-mat/
I agree with your underlying skepticism, however.
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I reckon the only way is through interfaces like CUDA etc, which will be EXTREMELY inefficient at processing graphics data and returning it back to the CPU instead of outputting it via the display port.]]>Jul 14th 2008 1:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/lucid-logix-hydra-tech-brings-together-any-gpus-for-powerful-mat/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/lucid-logix-hydra-tech-brings-together-any-gpus-for-powerful-mat/Jul 14th 2008 7:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/lucid-logix-hydra-tech-brings-together-any-gpus-for-powerful-mat/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/lucid-logix-hydra-tech-brings-together-any-gpus-for-powerful-mat/
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Maybe an intelligent routing algorithm which plays to each cards strengths while avoiding its weaknesses? Would that slightly increase the performance of each card and be considered above linear?

Or is it comparing the cards all daisy chained together? (See how this solution works vs the blank screen you get when they are hooked up incorrectly)

I'm not saying it can be done (or done well) in realtime. ]]>Jul 14th 2008 1:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/lucid-logix-hydra-tech-brings-together-any-gpus-for-powerful-mat/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/lucid-logix-hydra-tech-brings-together-any-gpus-for-powerful-mat/Jul 14th 2008 1:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/lucid-logix-hydra-tech-brings-together-any-gpus-for-powerful-mat/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/lucid-logix-hydra-tech-brings-together-any-gpus-for-powerful-mat/Jul 14th 2008 5:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/lucid-logix-hydra-tech-brings-together-any-gpus-for-powerful-mat/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/lucid-logix-hydra-tech-brings-together-any-gpus-for-powerful-mat/Jul 14th 2008 1:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/lucid-logix-hydra-tech-brings-together-any-gpus-for-powerful-mat/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/lucid-logix-hydra-tech-brings-together-any-gpus-for-powerful-mat/Jul 14th 2008 6:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/lucid-logix-hydra-tech-brings-together-any-gpus-for-powerful-mat/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/lucid-logix-hydra-tech-brings-together-any-gpus-for-powerful-mat/Jul 14th 2008 4:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/lucid-logix-hydra-tech-brings-together-any-gpus-for-powerful-mat/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/lucid-logix-hydra-tech-brings-together-any-gpus-for-powerful-mat/Jul 14th 2008 3:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/lucid-logix-hydra-tech-brings-together-any-gpus-for-powerful-mat/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/lucid-logix-hydra-tech-brings-together-any-gpus-for-powerful-mat/Jul 14th 2008 1:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/lucid-logix-hydra-tech-brings-together-any-gpus-for-powerful-mat/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/lucid-logix-hydra-tech-brings-together-any-gpus-for-powerful-mat/Jul 14th 2008 1:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/lucid-logix-hydra-tech-brings-together-any-gpus-for-powerful-mat/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/lucid-logix-hydra-tech-brings-together-any-gpus-for-powerful-mat/Jul 14th 2008 3:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/lucid-logix-hydra-tech-brings-together-any-gpus-for-powerful-mat/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/lucid-logix-hydra-tech-brings-together-any-gpus-for-powerful-mat/Jul 14th 2008 1:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/lucid-logix-hydra-tech-brings-together-any-gpus-for-powerful-mat/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/lucid-logix-hydra-tech-brings-together-any-gpus-for-powerful-mat/Jul 14th 2008 1:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/lucid-logix-hydra-tech-brings-together-any-gpus-for-powerful-mat/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/lucid-logix-hydra-tech-brings-together-any-gpus-for-powerful-mat/]]>Jul 14th 2008 2:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/lucid-logix-hydra-tech-brings-together-any-gpus-for-powerful-mat/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/lucid-logix-hydra-tech-brings-together-any-gpus-for-powerful-mat/Jul 14th 2008 2:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/lucid-logix-hydra-tech-brings-together-any-gpus-for-powerful-mat/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/lucid-logix-hydra-tech-brings-together-any-gpus-for-powerful-mat/Jul 14th 2008 3:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/lucid-logix-hydra-tech-brings-together-any-gpus-for-powerful-mat/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/lucid-logix-hydra-tech-brings-together-any-gpus-for-powerful-mat/Jul 14th 2008 2:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/lucid-logix-hydra-tech-brings-together-any-gpus-for-powerful-mat/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/lucid-logix-hydra-tech-brings-together-any-gpus-for-powerful-mat/
It might work for things like CUDA but it will fail at games because of latencies etc]]>Jul 14th 2008 5:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/lucid-logix-hydra-tech-brings-together-any-gpus-for-powerful-mat/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/lucid-logix-hydra-tech-brings-together-any-gpus-for-powerful-mat/Jul 14th 2008 6:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/lucid-logix-hydra-tech-brings-together-any-gpus-for-powerful-mat/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/lucid-logix-hydra-tech-brings-together-any-gpus-for-powerful-mat/Jul 14th 2008 3:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/lucid-logix-hydra-tech-brings-together-any-gpus-for-powerful-mat/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/lucid-logix-hydra-tech-brings-together-any-gpus-for-powerful-mat/Jul 14th 2008 7:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/lucid-logix-hydra-tech-brings-together-any-gpus-for-powerful-mat/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/lucid-logix-hydra-tech-brings-together-any-gpus-for-powerful-mat/
Emergent properties! It's the way of the future!]]>Jul 14th 2008 3:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/lucid-logix-hydra-tech-brings-together-any-gpus-for-powerful-mat/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/lucid-logix-hydra-tech-brings-together-any-gpus-for-powerful-mat/
http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/other/display/20040519040727.html

Thats right. Thing is, I been around pre the 3DFX days (yes S3 and Virge) and can remember odd bits here and there!

Anyway, Im sure Alienware managed to get Nvidia and ATi cards to work in tandem in an SLI mode.

But whatever, the majority here im sure are joe six pack and only think that Crossfire and SLI is where its at (rolls-eyes)!]]>Jul 14th 2008 5:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/lucid-logix-hydra-tech-brings-together-any-gpus-for-powerful-mat/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/lucid-logix-hydra-tech-brings-together-any-gpus-for-powerful-mat/
You couldn't run two cards of different brands in parallel]]>Jul 15th 2008 1:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/lucid-logix-hydra-tech-brings-together-any-gpus-for-powerful-mat/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/lucid-logix-hydra-tech-brings-together-any-gpus-for-powerful-mat/-rick


I was hoping the same thing, does anyone know when the hell this is going to be ready to do some real benchmarks?]]>Jul 14th 2008 5:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/lucid-logix-hydra-tech-brings-together-any-gpus-for-powerful-mat/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/lucid-logix-hydra-tech-brings-together-any-gpus-for-powerful-mat/
http://uk.gear.ign.com/articles/515/515363p1.html

"The scheme involves two video cards -- they don't have to be identical cards -- and a tertiary PCI card. The outputs from the video cards run to the third card, which sends the signal to your monitor. Basically, each card renders one-half of the scene and then throws it to the array card, which assembles the final image."

There you go.. pure ownage.

Next time low modders, try and validate your info before you mark up/down. ;)]]>Jul 14th 2008 5:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/lucid-logix-hydra-tech-brings-together-any-gpus-for-powerful-mat/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/lucid-logix-hydra-tech-brings-together-any-gpus-for-powerful-mat/
But, looks like it never came to market. Must not have worked out as well as expected. Not surprised seeing as how ndivia and ati are still having a hard time getting sli/crossfire to scale well, despite having spent tons of time and resources on it. cool that they tried it anyway.

I would like to read more about exactly why it never made it, though.
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