More Details About Lucid's Hydra Revealed - Object Based Rendering, RISC, 4w TDP

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Object based rendering huh? I'd love to see that work with rendering something even as simple as a cubemap or with Carmack's proposed voxel based terrain renderer. This also renders a Z-only passes a moot point since that requires running all objects through the transform and rasterization stages. Hogwash!

Indeed, there was a time in the videogame industry to which we could call the "Carmack Age". That age is long gone, now. Carmack is more interested in rockets now, so let him be.
Between something Carmack proposed and something else that would allow for near-perfect multi-GPU scaling, guess which one I'd choose?

If it was easy to just parcel out individual objects to be rendered to different GPUs AMD and Nvidia would have done it ages ago. How can Lucid do this so easily when they have a lot less information than the graphics guys do about their own hardware?

And who said it was easy? Or are you assuming it must be easy because a new company came up with the concept? Assuming that all the great minds must be already in Intel, nVidia and AMD? I find that hard to believe.

In terms of RAM, there's no win there. How would Hydra know which objects are more expensive (like which ones are going to be tessellated, or which have the most demanding shaders) or which textures need to go to which card?
Some algorithms also rely on maintaining the drawing order of primitives. They're making it sound like you can just split up the objects that belong to the scene and delegate them to different cards without worrying about any dependencies.

Wait and see. Maybe they can do it, maybe not.

Sounds like a pile of bull until they offer up some proof that it works.

Do you think Intel would invest in something that "sounds like a pile of bull"?



EDIT:
To all those "superskeptics" around, here's an image from a 6 month old article:



It is object based. There are even videos showing it.