Can I SLI from two different brands?

[forrestcupp]

Can't wait to see how much of a leap the new generation of GPUs is. I'm hoping it's significant so we can get into the 4K era a little easier.

Plus, it will be awesome if Direct X 12 actually does get multi-GPU support where completely different cards can work together. I know it won't do any good for non-DX12 games, but it could be good for the future, especially if they can stack VRAM.

 

[PP Mguire]

Nvidia has quoted me twice 50% per watt, plus all the added FP16 performance will actually help in gaming. The addition of async compute queueing being natively supported and compute/graphics pipelines running in parallel will make that happen. Pascal has a lot riding on it. I wouldn't expect GP104 to push us into 4k, that'll be up to GP100.

DX12 does support multi-card use, it's up to developers to integrate it so we already know it won't happen.

 

[forrestcupp]

What I think would be cool would be if developers did use the multi-GPU functionality, and it could use our unused integrated graphics as a boost.

 

[PP Mguire]

What I think would be cool would be if developers did use the multi-GPU functionality, and it could use our unused integrated graphics as a boost.

Some of us don't have IGPs

 

[forrestcupp]

Some of us don't have IGPs

What CPU do you have? Are you running a Xeon e3 or something?

 

[PP Mguire]

It's right in my sig, 3960x.

 

[forrestcupp]

It's right in my sig, 3960x.

Dang, dude. You went all out.

 

[PP Mguire]

Nah. Won the chip at Quakecon, the board I got off Ebay for 50 bucks. Used the chip basically since the year it came out and I plan on using it until I actually need to upgrade.

 

[forrestcupp]

Nah. Won the chip at Quakecon, the board I got off Ebay for 50 bucks. Used the chip basically since the year it came out and I plan on using it until I actually need to upgrade.

I was thinking more of your Titan X SLI setup.

 

[PP Mguire]

I was thinking more of your Titan X SLI setup.

Oh yea, I'm set with getting the latest each generation by selling off the cards when the new ones come out. Just patiently waiting for GP100 since TItan X SLI isn't really enough for 4k.