Do you plan on using DirectX 12 mixed GPU in the future?

[W1zzard]

We've did some early testing using Ashes of the Singularity, do you think this feature will catch on and what are your plans for it?

 

[Pehla]

well i gues most of you guys have fancy intel cpu...,well you can yuse igpu as second gpu..any performance gain is performance gain!!that goes same for the ppl who was on a budget and had to buy amd apu....i truly hope developers takes full advantage over that mixing gpu stuff..

 

[Joss]

Single beefy GPU, I think it will stay the choice.

 

[Folterknecht]

I trust in Nvidia and amd to find a way to screw that up somehow.

 

[bbmarley]

Not long since i purchased a 390. When upgrade time comes i don't see any reason not to run multiple Gpu's

 

[geon2k2]

For very long time I preferred one GPU only.
I mostly upgrade because the components are old. What's the purpose to add another old card.
It's better to get a new one which will mostly have the same performance as the 2 old cards.

Technology is amazing, but it must be included in the driver and work in all applications, not just one game, and then maybe we'll use some resources from the iGPU and both the old and the new GPU

 

[micropage7]

i think better upgrade for one better card, for compability and lower power consumption
but so far im not too interested on changing GPU

 

[Mussels]

depending on how its implemented in games, i'll use it.

as an example:

I've got a
290 4GB
7970 3GB
7750 4GB (it was free. stop laughing)
Geforce 550ti 1GB

if a game can use the extra ram, i'd throw the 7750 in. If it had Nvidia exclusives - the 550ti makes a showing.

If i just need regular old crossfire but dont have matching cards, i'll either use 290 + 7970, or my 6570 2GB crossfire setup

 

[medi01]

Does that even make sense, unless you bring NV into the mix?
I mean, crossfire is faster than that, isn't it? (best scaling I've seen with DX12 multi GPU was like 60%, with average closer to half of that, unless I"m misreading it)
AMD allows you to do that without any links between cards.
AMD allows you to do that with DIFFERENT cards too (even to utilize those, integrated with CPU)

So what gives?

 

[arbiter]

Does that even make sense, unless you bring NV into the mix?
I mean, crossfire is faster than that, isn't it? (best scaling I've seen with DX12 multi GPU was like 60%, with average closer to half of that, unless I"m misreading it)
AMD allows you to do that without any links between cards.
AMD allows you to do that with DIFFERENT cards too (even to utilize those, integrated with CPU)

So what gives?

with DX12 don't think it matters anymore about that SLI bridge so much since in theory can use amd card and nvidia card. Best SLI/CF scaled game was sniper elite 3, it scales like 90-95% and it was DX11

 

[Frick]

depending on how its implemented in games, i'll use it.

as an example:

I've got a
290 4GB
7970 3GB
7750 4GB (it was free. stop laughing)
Geforce 550ti 1GB

if a game can use the extra ram, i'd throw the 7750 in. If it had Nvidia exclusives - the 550ti makes a showing.

If i just need regular old crossfire but dont have matching cards, i'll either use 290 + 7970, or my 6570 2GB crossfire setup

Isn't this a DX12 feature?

 

[Mussels]

Isn't this a DX12 feature?

isn't that what this threads about

how game devs implement it is entirely up to them, so without knowing how it'll divide up the work, the possible combinations are wild guesses right now.

 

[deemon]

My choice for future builds comes in the ITX format... thus only single PCIe slot and solo GPU.

 

[Schmuckley]

If there's a good game that supports it and I don't have to use Windows Dataminer 10.

 

[deemon]

If there's a good game that supports it and I don't have to use Windows Dataminer 10.

You don't get DX12 without windows 10. You gotta hope Vulkan has the same functionality about multi-GPU setups.

 

[Schmuckley]

If it was was me,i'd copy the api and translate to various forms of Linux.
Linux:The new gaming OS
One can dream,right?

 

[GoldenX]

Vulkan supports multi-gpu, it's up to the developer. Most probably only Source 2 (DotA 2) will use it.

 

[1d10t]

Will and always use multi GPU setups

 

[Disparia]

I prefer to upgrade to one single card, but that also means when my wife and I upgrade there will be both an R9-380X and GTX 960/4GB available for some inter-brand coexistence in the kids computer. It still has an ATX board so it could happen but not a big deal if it doesn't. The more likely benefit for me is if they can utilize the IGP in some way.

 

[EarthDog]

Not a chance, no.

EDIT: I wonder how this will affect benchmarking at HWbot.................

 

[saknid]

The Question Should have been Multi-Select with "Or" Condition, A friend of mine want to sell his 960, I already have 270x, would it be possible to combine these, if yes then sure I will, if not then Single powerful card will be enough :-D

 

[Mussels]

The Question Should have been Multi-Select with "Or" Condition, A friend of mine want to sell his 960, I already have 270x, would it be possible to combine these, if yes then sure I will, if not then Single powerful card will be enough :-D

yes, you can combine any DX12 cards. its up to the game itself how well it scales, without identical cards. 4x 980ti + 2x fury nano + 4x intel IGP (assuming you have a magic server board with four CPU sockets) - in *theory* its all possible.

 

[GoldenX]

What would be great is some way to configure the load distribution of the game engine (for example a slider going from 10%/90% to 90%/10% on dual configs), that way it doesn't matter what combination you're using as long as you take the time to tweak it.

 

[Rauelius]

Sure, I can't wait to run my GTX980-Ti and R9-290 together in more games!

 

[Ruru]

Probably just getting a twin brother to my existing R9 290.