AMD and NVIDIA hybrid

DjordjeDtW

DjordjeDtW
There is no way for mixing these two GPUs, by different manufacturer? Or this is possible with glitches in hardware - software work? I must stay on old hardware drivers and forget new?

I already have this feeling, torture who is waiting to happen.
 
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[VR] Mad Mike

[VR] Mad Mike
I heard that DX12 may allow this. I am not sure if true however.

other than that, the only other (very limited) way I can think of combining is if the game supports physx and you hack the drivers to allow the NV card to do physx and the amd one to do visuals. its unofficial however (and irrelevant for ED)
 
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uncle bulgaria

uncle bulgaria
Yeah DX12 is supposed to allow this but I guess we'll have to wait and see until we get the full DX12 announcement with all the details.
 

B0xCutter

B0xCutter
There used to be a technology called Lucid Hydra which allowed you to run any number of GPUs, regardless of model or vendor, and scale up performance on a single motherboard. Very few motherboards were offered with it and it eventually faded away due to lack of vendor support since upcoming (at the time) processors and motherboards no longer required costly additional dedicated chipsets to run SLI or Crossfire.

Would have been awesome if they continued development. But DirectX 12 is going to be a step in the right direction
 

Captain w00t

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B0xCutter said:
There used to be a technology called Lucid Hydra which allowed you to run any number of GPUs, regardless of model or vendor, and scale up performance on a single motherboard. Very few motherboards were offered with it and it eventually faded away due to lack of vendor support since upcoming (at the time) processors and motherboards no longer required costly additional dedicated chipsets to run SLI or Crossfire.

Would have been awesome if they continued development. But DirectX 12 is going to be a step in the right direction
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Yeah twas a shame about Lucid had great potential> DX12 will give us a revival of the possibilities however to mix both

You can run an AMD card and an Nvidia one for PhysX calculations but it's not really worth it.
 

DjordjeDtW

DjordjeDtW
Yeah and i need Crossfire or SLI motherboard which i don't have. I have MSI p35 Platinum, 2x PCI express. But this is not that.
 

Baleur

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You are better off getting the most powerful single-card you can buy (we cant say "single-gpu" anymore, since all new cards already have several gpu's in the same "shell")
SLI or Crossfire doesnt give you twice the preformance, so it is simply not good value for money. Add to that the fact that very very many games dont properly support it, and will show next to no preformance increase since many games only utilize one of the cards.

So dont bother upgrading your motherboard and reformatting your entire pc. Just get the best single card you can get, whatever brand you wish, and you'll be happy.
Unless you wanna play in 4k with supersampling on top of that, a single card will be just fine for 60fps maxed out gaming.
 

Captain w00t

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Baleur said:
You are better off getting the most powerful single-card you can buy (we cant say "single-gpu" anymore, since all new cards already have several gpu's in the same "shell")
SLI or Crossfire doesnt give you twice the preformance, so it is simply not good value for money. Add to that the fact that very very many games dont properly support it, and will show next to no preformance increase since many games only utilize one of the cards.

So dont bother upgrading your motherboard and reformatting your entire pc. Just get the best single card you can get, whatever brand you wish, and you'll be happy.
Unless you wanna play in 4k with supersampling on top of that, a single card will be just fine for 60fps maxed out gaming.
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He's got a P35 motherboard though which means he's using a Core2 CPU - no point in buying a super high-end card as he'll be seriously CPU limited.

And we still say single-GPU, since that's what they are. Hence we have Titan-Z, Radeon 295X which are multi-GPU cards. One die makes one GPU just with different configurations of components making that individual part.
 

DjordjeDtW

DjordjeDtW
I already have a new one R9 270X and Ageia PhysX Accelerator BFG edition.
I just wanted to try this experiment with Hybrid. Whatever.

Thank you respected Commanders for very constructive words.
Thank you to all!
 
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DjordjeDtW

DjordjeDtW
http://www.gamespot.com/articles/directx-12-unlocks-more-pc-power-from-integrated-g/1100-6427128/

The announcement comes weeks after speculation suggesting that DirectX 12 could allow PC users to harness the power of multiple GPUs from different companies, such as AMD and Nvidia. While the Multiadapter feature is similar in principal, it appears that it only applies to mixing an integrated GPU with a graphics card. It is not clear whether DirectX 12 will allow users to mix graphics cards.
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It is not clear (it is not sure, maybe - maybe never, dream on, imposible) whether DirectX 12 will alow users to mix graphic card. Its for integrated graphic card, not for regular. Economic reason. Never happen.
 

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Cmdr Eagleboy

Cmdr Eagleboy
Same limitations are shred by incoming Vulcan, advancement of OpenGL. As for someone allowing it or not, I doubt vendors will be that stupid to limit it. People buy hardware to use it and how they use it it's their own business. So I think it means more shader calculation power for mixed graphics card setups. Yay.
 
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