Nvidia gpu with amd gpu

[Zenedge]

i ahve a system that currently has a hd5850 videocard. the mobo can support up to two videocards, and i recently got a gt730 for free.

can i shove this gt730 in the 2nd slot and use it a physx card?

[HPWebcamAble]

That is a great question. I doubt it.

 

I know you can't "cross-SLI" them. I'd say you CAN'T use the 730 as a Physx card since physx would usually happen on the main NVIDIA GPU but since there isn't one, no Physx will be occurring anyway. Does that make sense ?

[TheAmazingCookieFromSquare]

Yes it is possible

[TheAmazingCookieFromSquare]

3 hours ago, HPWebcamAble said:

That is a great question. I doubt it.

 

I know you can't "cross-SLI" them. I'd say you CAN'T use the 730 as a Physx card since physx would usually happen on the main NVIDIA GPU but since there isn't one, no Physx will be occurring anyway. Does that make sense ?

 

[harrynowl]

Yeah you can  Unless something has massively changed in the past 2 months.

[piromane666]

2 minutes ago, HPWebcamAble said:

That is a great question. I doubt it.

 

I know you can't "cross-SLI" them. I'd say you CAN'T use the 730 as a Physx card since physx would usually happen on the main NVIDIA GPU but since there isn't one, no Physx will be occurring anyway. Does that make sense ?

Well, in borderlands if you have an intel cpu or and amd apu you can use the integrated graphics for phisix; not sure how it works on gpus

[HKZeroFive]

Last I heard, NVIDIA's PhysX is disabled if it detects an AMD GPU in the system.

[HPWebcamAble]

3 minutes ago, TheAmazingCookieFromSquare said:

 

I meant you can't use the cards for the same task; the crossfire'd cards and sli'd cards work independently in that system.

Sorry my made up words don't make sense 

[Kobathor]

PhysX on GPU (advanced PhysX) is totally disabled when the game detects an AMD GPU in the PC. Also, no, the nVidia Control Panel won't let you.

[Zenedge]

sooo is it worth a shot? or a waste of time?

[SkilledRebuilds]

38 minutes ago, HKZeroFive said:

Last I heard, NVIDIA's PhysX is disabled if it detects an AMD GPU in the system.

Heard similar.

35 minutes ago, Kobathor said:

PhysX on GPU (advanced PhysX) is totally disabled when the game detects an AMD GPU in the PC. Also, no, the nVidia Control Panel won't let you.

Again...

Just now, Zenedge said:

sooo is it worth a shot? or a waste of time?

Likely the above is true, It used to be a thing....without issues.... then there was a time you needed to replace DLL files for it to even work..

Then you hear that Nvidia outright blocks it from being done...

 

/You can use two different GPU's in a system fine, but in conjunction IN GAMES... nope.