Lucid Hydra on Smackover 2

[Xel'Naga]

Intel has the Lucid Hydra chip on the next revision of its X58 mobo:
http://forums.vr-zone.com/showthread.php?t=368843

[XSAlliN]

Interesting move... I'd like to see it in action.

[eric66]

at last

[Stukov]

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/...d-hydra-on-x58 apparently the source?

[Shintai]

Very unlikely....as in no.

Charlie needed attention again.

[@@@@]

It would be great if it was true I read somewhere that Intel was one of the investors of the Lucid company as always time will tell if it is true

[XSAlliN]

ATi and nVidia struggled with their faulty CF and SLI for years, so this might be a kicked in the nuts for them and the end of CF and SLI, wille Intel takes the glory with Lucid Hydra technology.

[Stukov]

Very unlikely....as in no.

Charlie needed attention again.

Did you not see the picture?

[XSAlliN]

Did you not see the picture?

What picture? That link is from an old Hydra presentation, dated since August.

[Shintai]

Did you not see the picture?

Yes and its old and a prototype demonstration. I can show you endless pictures of things thats been shown thats either.

A: Not ended as anything.
B: Not implemented yet or anytime soon.

And that picture is not from a smackover board...
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10021005-1.html
http://www.anandtech.com/tradeshows/showdoc.aspx?i=3379

[Stukov]

Yes and its old and a prototype demonstration. I can show you endless pictures of things thats been shown thats either.

A: Not ended as anything.
B: Not implemented yet or anytime soon.

And that picture is not from a smackover board...
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10021005-1.html
http://www.anandtech.com/tradeshows/showdoc.aspx?i=3379

Oh, I thought the pic in the first link was the picture of it on the X58 board...nevermind

[Decami]

Well according to the last "real" news. Lucid said it should be ready in Q1 2009 and would most likely be attached and sold on mother boards. So, it could be bull, or it could not.


All i have to say about this is, when it does hit, whenever that is....BOUGHT!!!


Also, I love the guys comment on the bottom about Lucid Hydra being "just" an alternative to SLI or Xfire, like its no big deal, it is MUCH, MUCH, MORE, than an alternative!!!

It will more than likely Kill Xfire and SLI, or make them change radically.

[Cold Fussion]

Well according to the last "real" news. Lucid said it should be ready in Q1 2009 and would most likely be attached and sold on mother boards. So, it could be bull, or it could not.


All i have to say about this is, when it does hit, whenever that is....BOUGHT!!!


Also, I love the guys comment on the bottom about Lucid Hydra being "just" an alternative to SLI or Xfire, like its no big deal, it is MUCH, MUCH, MORE, than an alternative!!!

It will more than likely Kill Xfire and SLI, or make them change radically.

By change radically you mean force them to make a technology that works? In either case its pointless since lucid will solve all those problems.

[junkmonk]

if this works as proposed, my GOD will that create some interesting possibilities!

[Dami3n]

Looking at how bad cf and sli works sometimes, and both are configurations with same brand cards, put together 1 ati and 1 nvidia will be madness.

[GAR]

I can bet my PC on this, not going to happen.

[jaredpace]

Would be interesting to see a 48701GB and GTX260 216 running side-by-side with 100% scaling

[Sly Fox]

It could happen... If Intel's dumped enough licensing and cash into Lucid.

AFAIK they are a major contributor/part owner. Sounds too good to be true though. Which means... Well, you guys know...

[Hornet331]

well it doesn't matter you still need 2 cards and pay twice the money. :p

So no thx...

[r4gm4n]

but your old cards that you've not sold can become useful

[RaZz!]

but your old cards that you've not sold can become useful

indeed.

but i'm still puzzled about how the lucid chip will be able to handle the different cards and how they're accessed from within the os.

[del_fuego]

Last i heard was that you'll only be able to use any 4 cards from the ONE vendor together, i.e: nvidia with nvidia or ati with ati. You'll still be able to run cards from different generations together though, i.e: 280GTX + 8800GT etc.

"Also, just to be clear, you will not be able to use graphics cards from both Nvidia and ATI at the same time. This is because Windows does not support the use of two different graphics drivers while rendering a 3D application."

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10021005-1.html

[Xel'Naga]

Last i heard was that you'll only be able to use any 4 cards from the ONE vendor together, i.e: nvidia with nvidia or ati with ati. You'll still be able to run cards from different generations together though, i.e: 280GTX + 8800GT etc.

"Also, just to be clear, you will not be able to use graphics cards from both Nvidia and ATI at the same time. This is because Windows does not support the use of two different graphics drivers while rendering a 3D application."

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10021005-1.html

Where did they got the info? From what I have heard Windows sees only the Lucida driver and the Lucida driver runs Nvidia and AMD drivers each in its own sandbox. so there should be no problem. Don;t remembered where I read this, though..

[Bobsama]

I would love to see this go into effect soon. It'd be awesome to see it happen soon. Will this chip provide extra PCIe lanes though? Or will it be optimized so well that it doesn't matter much?

[del_fuego]

Where did they got the info? From what I have heard Windows sees only the Lucida driver and the Lucida driver runs Nvidia and AMD drivers each in its own sandbox. so there should be no problem. Don;t remembered where I read this, though..

Dont know, lots of different sites around the web saying the same thing, some sites have interviews with the devs, have a look.

I thought the chip worked by intercepting the data from directx, then applying the magic before passing it on to the gpu driver which would definately limit it to the Windows driver model which i think indeed doesnt support more than one graphics driver for 3d rendering. Lucid aren't making a special driver for nvidia or ati cards as far as i'm aware?

Here, more info: http://www.anandtech.com/tradeshows/showdoc.aspx?i=3379