Thread: Lucid comes up with Hydra 200 chip

Lucid has declared an innovative chip in its Hydra multi-GPU array, the Hydra 200. As you might keep in mind, Lucid has launched the former Hydra 100 a year ago, plus these chips bring hardware multi-GPU lacking SLI or else Crossfire application. This also means that, thanks to Lucid Hydra, we may see Geforce as well as Radeon running mutually on the similar motherboard without any problem.

Not like the Hydra 100, which was assembled in the 130nm manufacturing procedure, the latest Hydra 200 is finished in 65nm, which means that the innovative chip should be a lot superior plus reasonable to manufacture. The chip is rated at 6W TDP as well as will be obtainable in three versions, the LT22114, LT22102 as well as the LT22114. The variation among these chips is the number of PCIe lanes. The low end has single x16 to the CPU with dual x16 for the GPUs while the top present arrive with x16 to the CPU with configurable pair of x16 lanes to GPUs. This means that controller can be set to work in four x8 modes, single x16 with two x8, or else even two times x16 mode.

In any case, Lucid's Hydra 200 sounds like a grand fixation in spite of the added premium cost.