Quick question on mixing cards

[andreajl]

Hi everyone,

I'd like to add a RX480 to a workstation to do some ethereum mining, so I don't need to use display outputs but I just need to use the card to compute.

Currently installed is a Firepro V5000 that must stay there.

I'm running Windows 7. Do some of you have any experience on this? Am I gonna mess thing up? 

 

Thanks!

[Electronics Wizardy]

You can use one driver per brand so both cards must run the same drivers. Normally this will work fine. You could also just run the miner and gpu in a vm. 

[andreajl]

25 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

You can use one driver per brand so both cards must run the same drivers. Normally this will work fine. You could also just run the miner and gpu in a vm. 

Thanks.

I'll set up a VM then so I can run the most suited driver for the Radeon card, since the Firepro card is getting quite old and I usually avoid updating the drivers too often to not mess up the work setup.

 

 

 

 

[andreajl]

Seems like there's no driver that supports the V5900 and the RX480 at the same time and setting up a VM with GPU passthrough on a Window host is not possible.

Guess I'll just assemble the cheapest build to run the card.