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madne$$

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Hi members,

I was curious if its possible to have both AMD & Nvidia in the same system and being able to choose which gpu you want to run?

As some gpus run better in certain games.

But a thought came to mind about the different x8 and x16 bus lanes?

Another about driver issues?

Whats your thoughts guys?
 
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You can absolutely do that, however you need to run seperate monitors to be able to do it. There is no way to funnel the video output of one through the other. You could run a monitor switch too, just beware youd be running 2 desktops so you need to open the program on the desktop you want to use. And so therefore the switch could get confusing

DX12 has a feature (currently only available in Ashes of the Singularity) to combine their power, but thats not what you are looking for here.
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You can absolutely do that, however you need to run seperate monitors to be able to do it. There is no way to funnel the video output of one through the other. You could run a monitor switch too, just beware youd be running 2 desktops so you need to open the program on the desktop you want to use. And so therefore the switch could get confusing

DX12 has a feature (currently only available in Ashes of the Singularity) to combine their power, but thats not what you are looking for here.
 
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PCIe lanes would depend on your system. Slots != Lanes. You can have an x16 slot with 8x/4x lanes which is common on MicroATX boards.

If you are running PCIe 2.0 then an 8x slot is only the equivalent of a PCIe 3.0 4x slot. Still enough for an AMD card for crossfire, so it should be good enough.

There can be driver issues. Best to just try it.

I think a reboot is going to be necessary between switches. I'm not sure how smart it would be about choosing the appropriate primary display.

 
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You can run AMD and Nvidia in the same system. Be aware that having both Radeon Crimson and Nvidia Geforce Experience running at the same time will consume a sizable amount of RAM and possibly CPU clock, although the ladder is unlikely.

I agree with Rogue Leader except for that you would need multiple monitors. You could simply move your primary monitor between cards when you want to use the other brand, but this should be done while the machine is powered off. Sometimes Windows gets confused if you switch display ports while the computer is running, and it may cause driver also if you do this while the machine is running.
 
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I think the benefit is very very far from being worth the hassle. Having the best possible single GPU card in teh system is always the best solution.
 
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