Threadripper - SLI and Crossfire?

[smartroad]

Hypothetical situation. Given that TR has 64 PCIe lanes could you have 4 GFX cards, one pair NVIDIA in SLI and the second pair, AMD in crossfire?

 

This is nothing more than a thought exercise! I am just curious to if this would work not as to the why (its pointless!). Although would give you the best option to choose between best setup for a given game if one favours one over the other LOL But yes this is pointless practically, yet interesting (to me) thinking about it.

 

Just like the idea that TR gives you the opportunity to have both options in one machine

[Oshino Shinobu]

I believe LTT already did a video on this. Previous platforms have had enough PCIe lanes to do it before and it is possible but a pain to get working. 

 

 

[KenjiUmino]

23 minutes ago, smartroad said:

... the opportunity to have both options in one machine

 

21 minutes ago, Oshino Shinobu said:

it is possible but a pain to get working. 

AFAIK, NIVIDIA and AMD in one machine has become a pain to get working in general, Xfire/SLI or single cards. 

 

i remember reading posts from people who upgraded from nvidia to a more powerful AMD card and asked if they could use the radeon as the main card and have the geforce do physX at the same time - wich always prooved to be problematic if i remember correctly.

 

it always was them drivers fighting each other