Lucid Comes Up With The Hydra 200 Chip
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PeterStoba
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name='Ghosthud1' said:
I am not too sure what ATI and Nvidia think, I assume Nvidia won't be happy as they won't be getting paid for SLI licensing any more.
This truly excites me though, it means you can buy a card and then add something else and it will still work, it's just genius.
Thats very cool actualy
Rastalovich
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The only thing that's yet to convince me on this is that ur adding an extra step between instruction and the output.
It may well be the case that even besides this, u can get a good result with say 2x 4870 cards, but ofc it 'shouldn't' be as good as 2 in xfire. Only really cos xfire is AMD and Hydra are inserting a workaround.
xfire is still a technology that chipset or manufacturers have to ask or have an agreement in place from AMD in order to use it. Funnily enough like SLI. SLI ofc being the naughty frowned upon technology cos of it's source and xfire being the champion as they've got their agreements to co-operate in place with no issues at this point.
Naughty SLI, more excuses to be anti-green.
some1 should be counting.
Hydra tho, even tho it's an interpreter sort-of technology, may well produce better results, and not necessarily benching, if it presents itself to the OS as 1 card or gpu. That is the killer for the xfire/sli alternatives. Native xfire/sli dedicated software/games 'should' be better, but the Hydra would then offer the feature to all products.
Being Win7 tho is a total crock. There really shouldn't be any reason why this is the case, it's a choice to be that way.
It may well be the case that even besides this, u can get a good result with say 2x 4870 cards, but ofc it 'shouldn't' be as good as 2 in xfire. Only really cos xfire is AMD and Hydra are inserting a workaround.
xfire is still a technology that chipset or manufacturers have to ask or have an agreement in place from AMD in order to use it. Funnily enough like SLI. SLI ofc being the naughty frowned upon technology cos of it's source and xfire being the champion as they've got their agreements to co-operate in place with no issues at this point.
Naughty SLI, more excuses to be anti-green.
some1 should be counting.Hydra tho, even tho it's an interpreter sort-of technology, may well produce better results, and not necessarily benching, if it presents itself to the OS as 1 card or gpu. That is the killer for the xfire/sli alternatives. Native xfire/sli dedicated software/games 'should' be better, but the Hydra would then offer the feature to all products.
Being Win7 tho is a total crock. There really shouldn't be any reason why this is the case, it's a choice to be that way.
theelusiveyoda
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its only win7 because of the hardware extraction layer is differient than in xp and vista.
Rastalovich
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Hardware abstraction layer (hal), has move to the Apple way of using EFI/DSDT by means of getting information from the bios as to what hardware is installed on the computer.
U can do this with any OS, it's merely a go-between between bios and OS. If u like it tells the OS what hardware is available (amoungst other things like irq allocations).
One of the things that makes installing SnowLeopard on a regular pc is that u can massage the dsdt at the point of boot. Even tell it it's got hardware that it doesn't strictly have. i.e. tell it the audio is different to what it is.
U can do this with any OS, it's merely a go-between between bios and OS. If u like it tells the OS what hardware is available (amoungst other things like irq allocations).
One of the things that makes installing SnowLeopard on a regular pc is that u can massage the dsdt at the point of boot. Even tell it it's got hardware that it doesn't strictly have. i.e. tell it the audio is different to what it is.
