Lucid Hydra is alive...

[aka1nas]

Originally posted by: Creig

Originally posted by: alyarb
presumably far lower. no AFR. no buffer sharing.

I never really thought about it before, but the Hydra could be the answer to a unified memory pool. With it, you are no longer storing identical data in both cards. So two 512MB video cards actually would behave like a single 1GB X2 card on a Hydra based motherboard. Perhaps even better if their near 100% efficiency claims are true and overall bandwidth consumption is reduced.

Isn't that basically what they tried to do with SFR on SLI? They moved away from it rapildy because it ended up working poorly in real-world conditions, IIRC.