Have you ever thought how it would feel like if your computer used technologies from both ATI and NVIDIA to render your graphics? I know I thought about it! I mean, I've been a fan of ATI branded products for some time now but always wanted their products to have some of NVIDIA's own technologies as well. Such as 3D gaming with NVIDIA 3D Vision or CUDA in order to help speed up processor intensive applications. Well, now my dream has finally come true thanks to LucidLogix and their HYDRA 200 Parallel Graphics Chip.

The parallel graphics chip will allow motherboard, graphics card manufacturers and of course, users to take advantage of multiple GPU combinations when designing their notebooks and PCs. They could combine AMD's graphics cards with NVIDIA's and take advantage of the technologies that come with both brands. No more vendor specific multi-GPU systems, no more ATI only or NVIDIA only computers. The time has come for you to decide what your computer will 'wear' in terms of graphics.

“We’ve further refined our HYDRA engine and made it faster and more flexible, allowing for a near limitless combination of GPU’s,” said Lucid’s vice president of research and development, David Belz. “HYDRA 200 allows the consumer to get more ‘bang for their GPU buck’ by extending the life of their current GPU investment, providing even faster graphics performance and later upgrading their system with whatever card they choose.”

The Hydra is a 65nm PCIe compatible System on Chip device that can be used in systems combining up to four GPUs and that also supports multiple display configurations. There are already a number of devices being announced as using the HYDRA 200 chip and I am pretty sure there are a lot more to come.


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