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SLI with Crypto mining card for Machine learning

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9 minutes ago, BoredSloth said:

Is it possible to SLI a graphics card with a mining card? 

Reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TY4s35uULg4

 

I am a machine learning enthusiast. At some point, I might game in VR.

Is it possible to SLI a regular 1060 6GB graphics card with a mining card mentioned in this video? If yes,

  • In terms of gaming performance, which single card would it match up to. Would this make sense in terms of price? 
  • I have 12 GB of memory now available. Is this useful? Overkill? For machine learning, this would make sense. 

Can someone help me explore this? 

 

  

I don't think so, likely you'd need to go some hacky driver stuff but the 1060 does not support SLI, so you'd be using DX12 features
Machine learning doesn't need SLI, and lastly,
SLI does not double RAM, DX12 multi GPU options might. 

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Is it possible to SLI a graphics card with a mining card? 

Reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TY4s35uULg4

 

I am a machine learning enthusiast. At some point, I might game in VR.

Is it possible to SLI a regular 1060 6GB graphics card with a mining card mentioned in this video? If yes,

  • In terms of gaming performance, which single card would it match up to. Would this make sense in terms of price? 
  • I have 12 GB of memory now available. Is this useful? Overkill? For machine learning, this would make sense. 

Can someone help me explore this? 

 

  

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9 minutes ago, BoredSloth said:

Is it possible to SLI a graphics card with a mining card? 

Reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TY4s35uULg4

 

I am a machine learning enthusiast. At some point, I might game in VR.

Is it possible to SLI a regular 1060 6GB graphics card with a mining card mentioned in this video? If yes,

  • In terms of gaming performance, which single card would it match up to. Would this make sense in terms of price? 
  • I have 12 GB of memory now available. Is this useful? Overkill? For machine learning, this would make sense. 

Can someone help me explore this? 

 

  

I don't think so, likely you'd need to go some hacky driver stuff but the 1060 does not support SLI, so you'd be using DX12 features
Machine learning doesn't need SLI, and lastly,
SLI does not double RAM, DX12 multi GPU options might. 

Yours faithfully

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Mix of hacking drivers and DifferentSLIAuto might let you pull that off, but you wont be able to do so in games with hack/cheat detection enabled

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15 minutes ago, Lord Nicoll said:

I don't think so, likely you'd need to go some hacky driver stuff but the 1060 does not support SLI, so you'd be using DX12 features
Machine learning doesn't need SLI, and lastly,
SLI does not double RAM, DX12 multi GPU options might. 

Thank you for that. 

I checked for SLI support and noticed that none of the mining cards have the same GPU and memory as the graphics card. The only one that had matching specs were the 1060 6 GB versions but it does not support SLI. (Source: https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/?gpu=GP106&sort=generation). 

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