Lucid Hydra on Smackover 2

[Decami]

Ah yes, okay, so microstutter may not be an issue, but really.. how would the hydra chip know how much work to give each chip each frame? It can't know the chips bottlenecks or general performance and account for them in realtime.

There are all kinds of quality issues that would come into play too.. say 1 frame an older NVIDIA 6-series renders, the window or some texture. Then the next frame it's done by a newer 9-series. You'll get different image quality each frame? This is still totally not feasible.

If it were worth it, it would've been done by now. And you're right. Adding more latency into the process is a bad idea. Mouse lag ftl.

I see what your getting at, but it does work, has been demoed quite a few times, and tested by reviewers, its not like there no proof here. They have tested it with many different types of cards.

You do bring a good point about image quality on said card, and I for one am also curious about this.

But one thing you are hugely mistaken on.

If it were worth it, it would've been done by now.

not true at all, there are SO SO many things taht are hard to adapt to because of the market or pure greed.

Think about it...if your were a corporate company with share holders staring at you, would you choose SLI, or work on a tech like Hydra? The money would be in SLI, but only if the Hydra chip isnt in existence. Nvidia and ATI didnt want a better solution, casue to have SLI and Xfire you sell more new series cards, rather than giving the consumer a chance to use old ones already bought for multi GPU, which makes total sense on Intel funding this, they are just breaking into the market with GPU and need something to combat SLI/Xfire, to the grave, and this is it. Whether they will end up making decisions ultimately with the project is yet to be determined.

The quote you said is what we wish was reality, but in reality, its not true. Money controls market, not accommodation, or simplicity, or efficiency.

Honda jsut recently finally made a Hydrogen car that is no different than a normal car, an accord, top speed 125, 0-60 in 9 seconds, blah blah blah, same as any other car, but runs on Hydrogen, they are the first to do it, now how long do you think this will take to become the normal car? Im guessing damn near till oil runs out.

Hell cars that fly are closer than you think if some scientists would take the time to do it, but they are in no hurry, cause it would crush alot of market, tires for instance and other things.

Same goes for the Hydrogen car, one moving part, no oil changes, less maintenance=mechanics out of work, and so on.

Now this tech doesnt really fall under the same category, but you get my point.