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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Venicius on November 07, 2016, 03:56:09 pm

Title: practicality of running an AMD gpu and Nvidia gpu together?
Post by: Venicius on November 07, 2016, 03:56:09 pm

So I have a spare computer that isn't as nice as my gaming rig and it has an old nvidea card. I don't remember what exactly it is and I'm at work so I can't check it. The computer I'm thinking of adding it to currently has an older AMD7700. Anyone done anything similar? Would there be any benefit to doing a mixed dual gpu or is this just dumb to try? When I get a chance I'll boot up the nvidea computer and see what it is. 

Title: Re: practicality of running an AMD gpu and Nvidia gpu together?
Post by: Grizzly on November 07, 2016, 04:14:48 pm

It's impossible.

Title: Re: practicality of running an AMD gpu and Nvidia gpu together?
Post by: Ghostavo on November 07, 2016, 05:42:09 pm

If those cards had DirectX12 support, you may have had some luck with the very small subset of applications that support it. As it stands, no.

Title: Re: practicality of running an AMD gpu and Nvidia gpu together?
Post by: Venicius on November 07, 2016, 07:38:18 pm

That's kind of what I thought, guess I'll just take the extra ram and hard drive out and upgrade my gaming rig to 12 gigs. If I decided to dual boot could I tell the OS which card to use? Don't really know why I'd do that...Maybe I just need to go play a game now.

Title: Re: practicality of running an AMD gpu and Nvidia gpu together?
Post by: Phantom Hoover on November 07, 2016, 07:43:54 pm

For god's sake yes. For multiple reasons your plan here is never going to get you anywhere, just stick with the better card.