DirectX 12 Will Allow Multi-GPU Between GeForce And Radeon

[TheGentry]

Hahaha I've got 2 780ti much better

 

[Martini1991]

Tied to Nvidia because of 3D but would buy a 290 as a cheap power boost

But it's likely not to work in 3D with that set up.

 

[Mauller]

This is complete rubbish. You can debunk it by trawling over old discussions around here and elsewhere.

Also anyone who remembers LucidLogix Hydra are rolling their eyes right now.

The difference between this and lucid hydra, is that lucid was having to work over directx 9 - 11 etc, the same with current SLI/Xfire tech. while with this, you have explicit control over the rendering pathway and the gpu, so you have direct control over what gets rendered and where it gets rendered.

We could see Asynch multi gpu rendering with how lucid originaly envisioned it, where one gpu would render certain objects on the screen, while another renders the rest, so a slower gpu could still contribute to the overall rendering without having to render the entire scene, or a large chunk of it as with Scissor/Split/Tile etc.

 

[new boy]

Haven't clicked link. Don't feed the click bait trolls kids!

 

[Sin_Chase]

Is this the point where we can run an AMD R9 390X as the main card and a GTX 950 as a PhysX card?

This was possible years ago, but that functionality was intentionally disabled.

 

[varkanoid]

Dunno whether anyone seen this but the current latest Win 10 nvidia driver does have some Directx12 support already in it.

http://international.download.nvidia.com/Windows/nda/349.72/349.72-win10-64bit-notebook-desktop-release-notes.pdf

What is rather interesting is this bit under DX12 limitations.

● Does not support NVIDIA G-Sync, 3D Vision, SLI.

or is that "Does not yet...." ??

 

[Mr Carrot]

quick question to those in the know, does this mean that you can technically get paired VRAM pci boards to go with your card to give you a vram boost?

 

[Silent_Scone]

I am also perplexed as to the point/message of the article. Are they supposed to be saying it's a _NEW_ SFR?

It won't be the exact same method you're seeing now, no. I thought that would have been obvious. It's just poorly worded. There are a fair few examples of different methods for both AFR and SFR

 

[romper76]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9z-j_5auiOM

 

[Lightnix]

From reading that, it sounds like the author doesn't really know what they're talking about. Vague ideas like "pooling all the graphics resources into one bucket" is very far from a trivial thing to do requires some further explanation.