Would you care to ask Nvidia a Question?

[tviceman]

I would absolutely love to know what nvidia thinks of the technical idea behind Hydra's Lucid chip. Since there aren't official benchmarks or comparisons to relate to, I more or less want to know what they think about the idea of a chip's ability to " intercept OpenGL/DirectX commands from the CPU to the GPU and load balance them across any number of GPUs."

 

[Tempered81]

Originally posted by: tviceman
I would absolutely love to know what nvidia thinks of the technical idea behind Hydra's Lucid chip. Since there aren't official benchmarks or comparisons to relate to, I more or less want to know what they think about the idea of a chip's ability to " intercept OpenGL/DirectX commands from the CPU to the GPU and load balance them across any number of GPUs."

CHW: What do you think about the Lucid Hydra 200 Chip?
JHH: I don?t know, it sounds like terrible idea. There is so much software going on, drivers, applications and optimization that to think that there is no software is a bad idea, too much to expect. Plus SLI and Crossfire are available to anybody.

http://www.chw.net/2009/10/chw...a-a-jen-hsun-huang/2/#

 

[tviceman]

Originally posted by: Tempered81

Originally posted by: tviceman
I would absolutely love to know what nvidia thinks of the technical idea behind Hydra's Lucid chip. Since there aren't official benchmarks or comparisons to relate to, I more or less want to know what they think about the idea of a chip's ability to " intercept OpenGL/DirectX commands from the CPU to the GPU and load balance them across any number of GPUs."

CHW: What do you think about the Lucid Hydra 200 Chip?
JHH: I don?t know, it sounds like terrible idea. There is so much software going on, drivers, applications and optimization that to think that there is no software is a bad idea, too much to expect. Plus SLI and Crossfire are available to anybody.

http://www.chw.net/2009/10/chw...a-a-jen-hsun-huang/2/#

Thanks!

 

[cbn]

With the dropping price of High resolution LCD monitors does Nvidia have plans for integrating triple monitor capability (and beyond) into their gaming video cards?

It would especially seem the recent Nvidia sponsored game "Shattered Horizon" could make use of this.

Of all the games I have seen this one------> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...eature=player_embedded would seem to benefit the most from higher resolution and higher FOV (both in the horizontal and vertical planes)

 

[Keysplayr]

A bump to the top for more questions.

 

[deputc26]

Does Nvidia plan on getting chips fabbed by GloFlo? if so, when. Also as an Nvidia fan (and user) and an enthusiast I have been disappointed to see Nvidia decide to decieve the unknowledgable with re-badge schemes and raise expectations to unachievable levels with boistrous (open a can of whoop-ass) statements. This seems really short sighted given that it is the enthusiasts who are the opinion leaders and their sentiment carries over time to the masses in a significant market shifting way. This momentum shift can be difficult to reverse as I'm sure you know. Does Nvidia plan to continue with this myopic marketing modus operandi?

I'll be surprised if this question is really answered but I'd really like to hear a commitment from Nvidia that they will try to be more transparent in the future. If I get a BS marketing answer like "Nvidia denies ever being anything but perfect, having a new PCB made the GTS250 as different from 9800gtx+ as the names imply" then I will take it as confirmation that Nvidia will continue to sacrifice future mind-share for short term gains and will be a poor investment. Here's an example of a BS marketing answer that is sure to piss off enthusiasts "AMD does not support PhysX for their customers, and we don?t QA this configuration. With no QA, it is risky to run this configuration so we removed this capability in a recent driver release." BS, just publish that it is not supported, forcing it off is just myopic, people will figure out how to make it work anyway and then you will have not only failed to force people to buy your products on technicalities instead of merit, but will have earned enemies as well.

Well would you look at that, it got cloudy while I was typing

edit: grammar

 

[cbn]

What plans does Nvidia have for CUDA marketing now that Manju Hedge has left the company?