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ggrobot Elite Member
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Posted: Sat Feb 28, 2015 10:58 pm Post subject: TechNews - DirectX 12 = AMD + NVIDIA combo? [39066] |
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DirectX 12 rumoured to allow combining AMD and Nvidia cards on
same PC - A new rumour has emerged suggesting that Microsoft
could be working on
a revolutionary feature with DirectX 12, allowing users to combine
graphics cards from Nvidia and AMD on the same machine.
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Source: GGMania headlines
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gx-x Elite Member
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Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2015 8:12 pm Post subject: |
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"allowing users to combine graphics cards from Nvidia and AMD on the same machine."
1. This is possible for a long time. Not in the sense that you can combine two different brands of GPUs to render the same frame but you can have both in the computer and the one that has monitor plugged in will render the game.
I also had HD5850 + 8800GT combo where 5850 was rendering frames and 8800gt was doing PhysX. Took some fiddling to circumvent restrictions placed by nVidia but nothing too complicated.
2. Why would you want this? It's spells trouble all over it. The only benefit from this that I can see is if you have nVidia card like, say, gtx760 and want to upgrade, you can simply just buy gtx970 and have it working with your old 760. Same goes for AMD, tho, AMD already supports this if the GPUs share same architecture, namely codename of the core (you can pair radeon 280x with 7950 becuse..it's almost the same goddamn thing lol )
I don't see anyone with nVidia card adding AMD card or vice verse, makes no sense, running 2 sets of drivers facing 2 sets of potential issues each unique to it's brand.
3. HydraVison on intel and AMD counter part already supports combining integrated GPU with discrete GPU. Guess how that works? In all cases disabling igpu and using only discrete GPU gives better performance. |
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