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New Multi-GPU Technology With No Strings Attached

Posted by kdawson on from the here-process-this dept.

Vigile writes "Multi-GPU technology from both NVIDIA and ATI has long been dependent on many factors including specific motherboard chipsets and forcing gamers to buy similar GPUs within a single generation. A new company called Lucid Logix is showing off a product that could potentially allow vastly different GPUs to work in tandem while still promising near-linear scaling on up to four chips. The HYDRA Engine is dedicated silicon that dissects DirectX and OpenGL calls and modifies them directly to be distributed among the available graphics processors. That means the aging GeForce 6800 GT card in your closet might be useful once again and the future of one motherboard supporting both AMD and NVIDIA multi-GPU configurations could be very near."

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  1. No strings? by Plantain · · Score: 5, Funny

    If there's no strings, how are they connected?

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    1. Re:No strings? by x2A · · Score: 5, Funny

      The theory will fit, there will be strings, we'll add more dimensions if we need to.

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    2. Re:No strings? by philspear · · Score: 4, Funny

      I'm sure there's a superstring theory joke in here somewhere. Unfortunately I don't understand string theory. I guess it's okay, since apperantly no one else does either.

      I guess I'll just reference XKCD

      http://xkcd.com/171/

  2. no Strings attached by Daimanta · · Score: 4, Funny

    what is attached though:

    ints
    booleans
    longs
    short
    bytes

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  3. No strings. by jellomizer · · Score: 4, Funny

    But it looks like it will need plenty of threads to work though.

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