Combining old and new Titan Cards possible?

[Daphnis26]

Hi, 

 

Sorry if this topic is easily found elsewhere... I'm building a new PC with a Titan Xp GPU. I have my original Titan (from 2013) which is still good. I remember reading at one point that a nvidia update would allow adding graphics cards of different types together, but I'm not sure if that's possible.

 

I'm wondering if there's a way I could integrate my old Titan for some added benefit, or if I should just leave it aside? What do you think? Thank you!

[NoxiousOdor]

It wouldn't help gaming at all but if you do editing work, some programs can benefit from multiple gpus, or if you want to mind or do F@H

[Crunchy Dragon]

You could use your other Titan as a PhysX processor

 

In all seriousness, there isn't much use for having two different GPUs in a single system. I don't think a Titan Xp will be able to work together with the Kepler Titan given the age gap between them.

 

You could keep the older one around as a spare part and use it in a future gaming rig for someone. Or throw it on display for all to see, I haven't seen an original Titan for a long time. And also for bragging rights that you have one, they're not very common these days....

[Zando_]

27 minutes ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

You could use your other Titan as a PhysX processor

 

In all seriousness, there isn't much use for having two different GPUs in a single system. I don't think a Titan Xp will be able to work together with the Kepler Titan given the age gap between them.

 

You could keep the older one around as a spare part and use it in a future gaming rig for someone. Or throw it on display for all to see, I haven't seen an original Titan for a long time. And also for bragging rights that you have one, they're not very common these days....

Editing programs should be able to use both, as should mining or any other computing software... I could pop my 660 in with my 980 Ti and test it in Davinci Resolve to be sure though... 

[Daphnis26]

Thanks for the info, yes my system will primarily be used for 3D Design (Maya, Zbrush, UE4) and some Video Editing... not so much gaming. Is it worth thinking about then? Thanks!

[VikingGaming]

For 3D design and editing, I think you'd see a benefit having both cards in the system. Just note that SLI will not be possible, seeing as it's 2 different GPUs

[Lean18]

41 minutes ago, VikingGaming said:

For 3D design and editing, I think you'd see a benefit having both cards in the system. Just note that SLI will not be possible, seeing as it's 2 different GPUs

That is where AMD Xfire cards shine, tho it still isnt really worth it combining an old GPU with a 480/580 for an example

[Darkseth]

19 hours ago, Daphnis26 said:

Hi, 

 

Sorry if this topic is easily found elsewhere... I'm building a new PC with a Titan Xp GPU. I have my original Titan (from 2013) which is still good. I remember reading at one point that a nvidia update would allow adding graphics cards of different types together, but I'm not sure if that's possible.

 

I'm wondering if there's a way I could integrate my old Titan for some added benefit, or if I should just leave it aside? What do you think? Thank you!

And what do you want to do?

 

GPU-Computing?  Sure, np. You can put different Nvidia GPUs inside. Even GTX models and Quadros.

More GPUs will be simply used seperately, they don't need an even performance.

It's like having more CPU Cores for professional Use.

 

 

SLI for Gaming? No. Different architectures don't work together. Even if they would, the massive difference in Performance would lead to a stuttery mess like you've never imagined to see ^^

 

SLI and Multi GPU are 2 entirely different things^^ Sli is a technology to combine 2 identical GPUs to work together, by calculating every other frame per GPU.

For professional Applications you don't need such a thing ^^

 

 

 

TL;DR:

Works perfectly fine for 3d stuff, video editing, etc etc. As long your PSU can handle it.

 

Gaming: No. They will not work together in Sli mode (performances are too differenc, and architecture is different)