The battle between price and performance ends. A whole new world of graphics begins. Turbocharge your multi-GPU computing experience with the HYDRA Engine by Lucid. Let's play.
We're obsessed about helping make your graphics performance even better.
Meet the all-new HYDRA Engine by Lucid, the world's first real-time distributed processing engine designed to kick up the power of your PC. It's the cool "secret weapon" you need to pull maximum performance out of whatever creature or character you're playing today - warlord, alien, soldier or Sim.
The HYDRA Engine by Lucid is a patented system-on-a-chip designed to boost graphics performance in any multi-GPU environment, from mainstream to the most complex. Placed between a PC's chipset and GPUs, the HYDRA Engine smartly directs graphics processing traffic between the GPUs, using several intelligent parallelization algorithms. The result? Lower costs, better graphics, more responsiveness, and more power and fun for you - even with the most complex 3D scenes, animations or car chases frenetically flashing across your screen.
Best of all, the HYDRA Engine blasts down barricades in existing multi-GPU computing:
- When you scale two or more graphics cards, the HYDRA Engine helps you achieve a near-linear to above-linear increase in performance - a breakthrough for the industry.
- The HYDRA Engine is the first solution that "plays well with others." Unlike other technologies, it is completely compatible with all gaming applications, chipsets and GPUs from any vendor, so you can develop a totally customizable PC solution. Mix and match elements into your gaming system to achieve the price and performance level that's just perfect for you. And developers no longer have to write games and applications specific to a chip. Whether the API is OpenGL or Direct3D, the HYDRA Engine can tackle both.
Our goal is to make photorealistic graphics mainstream and affordable for everyone on graphics-enabled platforms, including PCs, notebooks and gaming consoles. Consumers and manufacturers can deploy the HYDRA Engine:
- On motherboards
- As an add-in board
We'll soon have more to share about HYDRA Engine technology and how it helps harness the true power of multi-GPU computing. Watch for partner announcements and consumer product availability coming in 2009!
