Lucid Hydra on Smackover 2

[STEvil]

Again naive, this is not going to work. You can't just sit there and go "there are x of these units, therefore it will be very good at this". The efficiency of the units comes into play, the different internal clock domains, the different perf bottlenecks and performance issues specific to each chip... there's just no way they can get the insight into each chip they need.

Sorry, a generic database of stats won't cut it.

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I think you fail to see the issue. It might know what each GFX card have etc.

But as Sr7 said, it just downt know how good etc those things are. Specially not in different games.

Secondly. The PCIe bus sends very very propertarian data. There is no OpenGL, DirectX etc calls. It will be nVidia data and AMD data. Most likely massively different from generation to generation. And some different in driver to driver.

Its a massive nightmare with all the different HW. It only gonna work if you got something more or else preselected.

Even in the BEST of the BEST cases. Your Hydra 100 chip would already fail with GPUs after its release. And most likely even drivers. So when you want a pair of those 300GTX series or HD5800. Then you also want a new MB with a new hydra chip.

For this to work, Lucid wants AMD and nVidia to adopt it. You can call this your new SLI tax. Abeit actually doing something.

www.hwbot.org

I'm sure they can use those numbers plus some in-house numbers plus guestimating given the price point/naming putting the cards into a certain performance envelope. Really, really basic stuff and not hard at all.

edit - and i'm sure if this works half decently that nV/ATi will be happy to talk with them about what features their card would excel at..