PhysX VRAM question

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Hey guys, I'm thinking about getting a 760 (or 760Ti if one pops up in the future) with 4gb of memory, and using one of my 560Ti twin frozrII cards(currently in SLI) with 1gb of memory as PhysX.. now I'm guessing the 560Ti shouldn't cause a bottleneck issue as a PhysX processor because I've looked at the GPU usage on Afterburner while running Planetside 2 with dedicated Physx turned on, and the performance of my game goes up by 10-15 frames, while only using about 15-20% of my PhysX card's GPU. This is going on the assumption that if my system was using almost 100% of the PhysX card to do physics, then I imagine there may be bottleneck issues if paired with a higher end card to do dedicated graphics, but as it does not do this, this is what I've come up with.

That being said, my concern is the video memory - I know when running in SLI, video memory isn't additive, the system only uses as much video memory as the card with the least amount, so running two 560s with 1gb of memory each does not mean 2gb total, just 1gb. What about PhysX? Does the video memory of one card impact the other, or will I get to use all 4 gigs of memory from a 760 if used in conjunction with a 560Ti in PhysX?
 
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Welcome to the forums!

Using the GTX 760 as the main GPU and GTX 560Ti as a PhysX card will allow you to use the full amount of memory from both cards.

Unless you are running a 32-bit OS, the only time you should not have access to the full memory from both cards is when you are running them in SLI/CrossFire.
This is because the contents of each cards memory must be exactly mirrored on both as memory access can not be shared between the cards.
A dedicated PhysX card has it own separate RAM allocation. This kind of setup does is NOT SLI, however, its kind of pointless doing this as the GTX760 is MORE than powerful enough to do PhysX itself.

What power supply do you have? Exact model.
What motherboard?
 
Welcome to the forums!

Using the GTX 760 as the main GPU and GTX 560Ti as a PhysX card will allow you to use the full amount of memory from both cards.

Unless you are running a 32-bit OS, the only time you should not have access to the full memory from both cards is when you are running them in SLI/CrossFire.
This is because the contents of each cards memory must be exactly mirrored on both as memory access can not be shared between the cards.
 
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Running a P67A-GD65 mobo from MSI, and the power supply (major overkill here) is an OCZ ZX series 1000W power supply.
 
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Cool, thanks to both of you for the help with the VRAM question :)
 
You will be just fine with that setup. With a GTX 760 you would not really need a dedicated PhysX card but it will not hurt in either case. And would give your GTX 760 the full power to the game itself so it could boost your fps alittle. Plus as I understand it PhysX does not require a great deal of memory.
 


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Why would you be querying the PSU and mobo?
 
If the mobo is low end, sticking in another card could reduce slot bandwidth on both cards to something like Gen2 4x, which will kill performance pretty badly.
And PSU, because you cant run two cards off a generic 400W PSU unless you want a problem on your hands.
 


Enough power and an extra x4 PCI-e slot needed, maybe? Redundency, always a good thing.
 


See post above.