We had an interesting meeting with the president and CIO of Lucid, a
company that gained a lot of attention at IDF 2008. Lucid promises a small
chip that can make your two GPU scale almost linear. After a long discussion
we learned that Linear is almost linear, and that linear is best case scenario
and that real world performance should be close to linear.
This would mean that two GPUs, let's say in SLI or Crossfire, powered by
Lucid chip and driver, could score close to 100 percent faster than a single
GPU. Let's say that if a single GPU would score 100 FPS in one game, two
would score close to 200FPS.
The chips that will find their place in both motherboards and graphics cards
will appear on the market in 2H 2009. The prototypes are already finished,
but the company didn't want to talk about any specific partners.
This leaves a lot of unclear questions to be answered, as we suspect that
both ATI and Nvidia might have something against a chip that makes SLI and
Crossfire look like child's play, and that this could lead to a driver that will
block Lucid’s ability to shine.
Source: fudzilla
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