After managing to activate SLI on Crosshair IV Extreme I decided to study performance scaling of HydraLogix technology vs SLI vs CrossFireX. I wanted to be fair, so I used the SAME motherboard for all the testing.

I have 13 diferent multi-card configurations:

  • HD5850 + GTX460
  • HD5870 + GTX470
  • GTX480 + HD5870
  • GTX470 + GTX460
  • GTX480 + GTX470
  • GTX480 + GTX470 + GTX460
  • 2 x GTX460 (Hydra)
  • 3 x GTX460 (Hydra)
  • 2 x GTX460 (SLI)
  • HD5870 + HD5850 (Hydra)
  • HD5870 + HD5850 (CFX)
  • 2 x HD5870 (Hydra)
  • 2 x HD5870 (CFX)


along with each card tested in single-card mode.

You can find the test over al Lab501: Lucid HydraLogix 200 – Anything is possible

I hope you like it!