Requirements

Because graphics cards are rapidly developing these days, this page will be updated from time to time. Last update: 4th of April 2007.

To have fluently frames during the simulation we suggest that your computer should have a CPU with more than 2500 MHz and a graphics card that meets the latest standards.

SLI

You can double the performance of your cards if you double themselves, which means that you are using the SLI technology by NVidia. LucidDrive is already SLI optimized! More information about SLI here. In near future there will be chipsets that will allow more than two cards for one SLI mainboard. The latest SLI Mainboard chipset is the 680i, which you should regard if you choose the right motherboard.

Trade-off Table

Category

Card

Price

Comment

Professional Line

Nvidia Quadro FX 4600

2000 Euro
(2700 USD)

Best choice. Based on the same chip like the 8800 series, this is the best solution at the moment.

Best Performance

Nvidia Geforce 8800 GTX

600 Euro
(800 USD)

Same as FX 4600 without professional customer support.

Budget SLI

Nvidia Geforce 8800 GTS

300 Euro
(400 USD)

Almost as fast as the GTX variant. If you put two in a SLI system it will top a single GTX.

Budget Single
(avaiable as AGP)

Nvidia Geforce 7900 GS

150 Euro
(200 USD)

This should do for most LucidDrive applications, if you don't need high resolutions.

 

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