A GTX and RTX card in the same system?

[IdestroyUranus]

Hey everyone!

 

I am interested in buying a new graphics card. I already have a GTX 1070ti and plan to buy a RTX card (I have not decided which one), but I intend to use the raytracing feature for games. Now coming to my question. Will they work together to improve the performance of a game, with like a SLI link or something. Or do I have to have a dedicated GPU for games and one for other applications like streaming if the system even works.

[Mateyyy]

No, they can't work together for games.

Really though I'd suggest waiting for Ampere or RDNA2. The 1070Ti is still a solid card, assuming you're not trying to power games at 4K High/Ultra with it.

[bmx6454]

5 minutes ago, IdestroyUranus said:

Hey everyone!

 

I am interested in buying a new graphics card. I already have a GTX 1070ti and plan to buy a RTX card (I have not decided which one), but I intend to use the raytracing feature for games. Now coming to my question. Will they work together to improve the performance of a game, with like a SLI link or something. Or do I have to have a dedicated GPU for games and one for other applications like streaming if the system even works.

they won't work together in any productive way. you could use one for gl, but you might lose performance, not gain. they have to be the same chipset to link unfortunately.

[NTDaws]

Well the 1070ti has more CUDA cores so you could set the 1070ti to use CUDA. This only applies to the 2070, 2060 Super, 2060. I do not know if there will be performance degradation.

[cagoblex]

They cannot work together, at least not in the SLI way as RTX cards don't even use the old SLI connector. But RT is the only reason you are buying a RTX card, then I would say wait for Ampere.