Nvidia SLI Slave/Master question

[Steve_French]

Hey everyone,

 

Well as title says I have a question about SLI'ing two graphics cards. Now this might sound silly but I was wondering if I can master/slave an MSI GeForce GTX 970 4G with an EVGA GeForce GTX 760 2G. I was told by a friend that that is possible, all I would have to do is connect them with SLI bridge like normal and the 760 will act as a slave, taking certain things off of the CPU and master GPU. I wanted to ask more people if this is possible before putting the time in or possibly do damage to my system.

 

Thanks,

 

Steve French

[Guest Kloaked]

No, you can't - not for gaming purposes. Only AMD has something like that I believe. Nvidia has it locked down for some reason.

[Stefan1024]

Hey everyone,

 

Well as title says I have a question about SLI'ing two graphics cards. Now this might sound silly but I was wondering if I can master/slave an MSI GeForce GTX 970 4G with an EVGA GeForce GTX 760 2G. I was told by a friend that that is possible, all I would have to do is connect them with SLI bridge like normal and the 760 will act as a slave, taking certain things off of the CPU and master GPU. I wanted to ask more people if this is possible before putting the time in or possibly do damage to my system.

 

Thanks,

 

Steve French

It's not possible. You can only use the 760 as Physix card, but that doesn't make a huge difference (IF the game suppoerts physix at all).

[Sakkura]

SLI is only possible with the same card (GTX 970 with another 970, brand doesn't matter).

 

You could use the GTX 760 as a dedicated PhysX card, but it's a waste IMO.

[C0LL0SS0S]

your friend is stupid or high, probably high. Happy 4/20 day

[MrLewisMHarris]

I don't know if this is still correct, because I heard it quite a long time ago, but as far as I know if you do manage to use this it only makes one of the cards a phys-X card.

 

Maybe this has changed since the GTX 260 though so someone correct me if I'm wrong.

[Steve_French]

Great thanks for the quick responses! 

[sgloux3470]

Hey everyone,

 

Well as title says I have a question about SLI'ing two graphics cards. Now this might sound silly but I was wondering if I can master/slave an MSI GeForce GTX 970 4G with an EVGA GeForce GTX 760 2G. I was told by a friend that that is possible, all I would have to do is connect them with SLI bridge like normal and the 760 will act as a slave, taking certain things off of the CPU and master GPU. I wanted to ask more people if this is possible before putting the time in or possibly do damage to my system.

 

Thanks,

 

Steve French

 

I believe you can set one card to handle PhysX, but I don't know if you need a SLI bridge for that.

 

Not really worth it, tbh.