Rumors about NVIDIA intentions to prevent advance of products on base of lucid hydra chip lay on the information about the delay of MSI big bang fuzion motherboard, and MSI representatives commentaries report that delay with the release of first product on base Of lucid hydra 200 was caused by the need for improving driver.
Let us note that NVIDIA representatives stated about the absence of any obstacles from NVIDIA side for the advance Of lucid hydra for the market. Today appeared the test result of lucid technology , which published in the sites tech report, Hot hardware and PC perspective.
Details about the speed of Lucid hydra were sent directly to sites enumerated above. First the result of lucid technology clearly shows the need for driver update, results of different video card differ depending on the combination of video chip and game. If we speak about superiority over SLI or CrossFire with the use of related video card, then lucid solution can both demonstrate a result on average 10-20% slower. Two video card on base of chips from different producers can demonstrate an increase to 50% of the speed level .
The lucid technology use only a part of video card resources for accelerating three-dimensional graphic - the same video chip can in parallel accelerate calculations, physical effects in games or decode video. In the second place, two video card can be used for the construction on a separate monitor of another scene part .