Microsoft Confirms DirectX 12 MIX AMD and Nvidia Multi-GPUs
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icedman
Uber exciting stuff cant wait for windows 10 not only for this but just in general cant stand win8.
LesserHellspawn
Wouldn't it be fun, if you could either hook up a Gsync monitor to the NV card or a freesync monitor to the AMD, and in both cases it just works, using both cards for rendering. No need to choose anymore. Time for proprietary functionality to go.
icedman
^Nvidia will find a way to keep thing propietary its what theyre best at
Clawedge
nvidia just pooped her panties!!!!!!
OnnA
Why? They are Bad guys or something?
I think it will be fun to have PhysX and Radeon with Free Sync :banana:
chinobino
+1.
They're probably coding it out right now in their drivers...
Veteran
Not for me no thanks.
Spets
That doesn't exactly fill me with hope for multi-GPU support..
fantaskarsef
No, because they don't want people to do stuff like the mix of physx and fsync. They'd rather keep people buying gsync monitors, instead of a cheaper monitor and an amd card to go with it 😉
But relax, most likely we won't ever see this happening in real life. There will be a big fuzz about nvidia blocking it with a simple driver installation flag or something similar, and most likely, cross driver support will be extremely poor anyway.
Redemption80
It's not a particularly official confirmation and it might even be the tech girl misinterpreting the question.
If it is officially supported, I still don't think it's a particularly good idea when SLI and CF still hasn't been perfected.
There is also the issue of installing two sets of GPU drivers that could cause issues.
I'm assuming that also means you could mix two different cards from the same vendor?
Does it also mean the GPU memory won't be mirrored or would GPU mem now be limited to the card with the lowest amount?
icedman
Gpu mixing has been attempted in the past with lucid logics and failed, same will probably happen here.
kosh_neranek
why so much nvidia hate lads? you recon that AMD wants people to buy a top range nvidia card and mix it with low end amd for freesync to save money? Neither of them will want this and no dev will waste time optimizing games for multi vendor gpu mixes.They have plenty of work without this
NGGJimmy
It Probably gonna take some time to see this in work.
War child
I see support from Nvidia and AMD to make it happen but for sure, both brands will ensure that full optimisation advantages require proper sli/crossfire.
Think of the backlash Nvidia will face if they block this feature. It will cost them alot I think. At the end of the day, they may be one of the greediest brands in the world today, but they are still at the mercy of the consumer!
And I dont see the point in making comments about fan boys. Fan boys still only make a small fraction of their customer base. If they support this, they may see a rise in sales from AMD owners purchasing mid range cards to utilise physx.
SetsunaFZero
NV Physix is disabled if u use a NV card as secondary card and AMD as primary
zer0_c0ol
mercy of the consumer?
they can poop on the vast majority of nvidia users, and they would still love it
fantaskarsef
Same with AMD users, but hey, let's make everything a bashing thread 😀
On a more serious note, there is no such thing as mercy of the consumer. For that to work, the majority of the people would need to do the same, not buy nv. But that won't happen.
zer0_c0ol
like i said they can poop on their heads, and they will still love and buy nvidia..
not all of them but a vast majority
Spets
Any topic involving Nvidia lately seems to attract butthurt AMD users.
Denial
It's mostly just huilun02, who posts negatively about Nvidia in literally every topic.
I mean it's one thing if you don't like Nvidia because you owned a 970 and had problems, or for some other valid reason. Like I pretty annoyed at them over the 690 multi-display support when I first got my 690, I posted some harsh stuff. But when you come into a thread like this and your only contribution to it is "Nvidia gonna be flipping mad. They'll probably do whatever it takes to break cross vendor compatibility." you're just a giant flamebaiting troll.
