drivers when using amd Anad Nvidia gpus in same system

Sonefiler · January 28, 2015

If I want to fold with AMD and Nvidia gpus, will the Nvidia GPU be held back if I have AMD drivers installed?

ionbasa · January 28, 2015

If I want to fold with AMD and Nvidia gpus, will the Nvidia GPU be held back if I have AMD drivers installed?

Somebody correct me if I am wrong.

I believe that installing an AMD driver and/or Catalyst makes Physx inoperable. In some cases (depending on PCIe bandwidth) SLI may also be disabled.

XTankSlayerX · January 28, 2015

Linus said that it ran well, let me get that video for you.

I wouldn't expect any issues other than some small driver conflicts.

kilotekpc · January 28, 2015

You'll notice in that video he mentions there are 2 separate sets of GPU's. One in Crossfire (the R9's) and the other in SLI (the 780ti's). And you have to choose between one set or the other. "Simply choose which graphics card vendor you want powering the system at any given time". This can be heard and seen starting at 1:03. Now mining software could be a bit different but I myself and I don't think anyone else here whose posted so far has the experience to say for sure on that. To my knowledge otherwise though, aside from mining, you cant run a Nividia and AMD card together at the same time in some kind of Frankenstein Cross-LI. However, I could see the potential for mining software to use the driver files alone for both cards and in turn use them both at the same time. Again though I have no real hands on experience mining my attempts were failures. I earned like 0.000000001 BTC. If that.