The Israeli company lucidLogix already promised to present the chip- switchboard hydra, which allows to almost linearly scale the performance from several video card. One of the remarkable special features of hydra chip was its ability to unite in one graphic different video card models , including AMD and NVIDIA video cards.
Yesterday lucidLogix company announced the new chip hydra 200, which is satisfied by level TDP not more than 6 W and released on 65 nm technology. This Chip will be proposed in three versions, elder from which will allow to distribute the service of PCI express according to diagram x8 + x8 + x8 + x8 between four video chips. Naturally, with the reduction of video chip number to three diagrams will change to x16 + x8 + x8, and two video chip PCI express x16. According to the preliminary estimations, the cost of elder version hydra of 200 Buddes is equal to $72.
MSI company will be first to equip with hydra 200 chip its motherboard big bang on base of Intel p55 chipset with three slots for the installation of video card . In the demonstration , this motherboard worked with the geForce GTX 260 and Radeon HD 4890, in the games bioshock and FEAR 2.
Let us note that Hydra 200 is not attached to any hardware platform . Related Products :
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