Lucid Introduces HydraLogix Chip for Video Cards
Lucid has introduced a variant of its Hydra technology, which is not processed in the motherboard, but in the video card. A card with HydraLogix chip can thus be combined with a video card from another brand.
With the new Unity Architecture it doesn’t matter which motherboard is used, as long as one of the video cards contains a HydraLogix chip. The technology makes it possible to use an AMD and Nvidia card simultaneously, with the calculations being divided between the two cards. The two manufacturers also offer such a construction themselves, with CrossFire and SLI respectively, but the user has to use two cards with the same type of GPU.
Powercolor already showed an HD5770 equipped with the chip on Computex, making it the first manufacturer to use the technology. It is not yet known which other manufacturers will adopt the Unity architecture. Lucid expects the first video cards with the chip on board to hit the shelves around the holidays. The HydraLogix chip was previously known as Hydra and the first variant worked via a separate chip on the motherboard.
MSI was one of the first manufacturers to release a motherboard with the chip and Asus also demonstrated a board with Lucid’s technology on Computex.