Pioneering The Multi-GPU Future With Oxide Games

[shankly1985]

No, you could run nvidia and amd with some lucid variants. It sucked balls.

http://hothardware.com/reviews/lucid-hydra-200-multigpu-performance-revealed?page=2

And the igp doesn't give 10 free fps, it doubles your frame latency for a small fps boost. A terrible idea.

All this stuff is dependent on devs to implement so will be in 2 techdemos and a half finished game, while everyone else uses normal setups.

I stand corrected never knew that was possible.

 

[elmuzzy66.]

Kaapstad if anybody blocking it will be NV. Do you remember them blocking off Ageia PhysX Cards in the drivers ?? Mother****ers...

Perfectly sound business strategy.

 

[Kaapstad]

Kaapstad if anybody blocking it will be NV. Do you remember them blocking off Ageia PhysX Cards in the drivers ?? Mother****ers...

I don't remember that but you have just given me the answer to a very old problem I had many years ago.

Before I got into building PCs I bought them off the shelf as is. I had one with an Ageia PhysX Card that suddenly stopped working and I could not figure out why, now I know.

Thanks NVidia.

 

[bru]

Whatever one company does the other side will do the opposite and then blame the other side for it not working very well.


Again.

Perfectly sound business strategy.

 

[Zeed]

Kaapstad mad no sense as they have purchased Ageia and their PhysX is from theirs and one day decided to block it off in the PhysX drivers.

 

[Kaapstad]

Kaapstad mad no sense as they have purchased Ageia and their PhysX is from theirs and one day decided to block it off in the PhysX drivers.

In those days I knew very little about drivers and did not belong to any forums.

I just thought as NVidia had bought the company they would carry on supporting the Ageia cards.

 

[Seanspeed]

+1

I can also see AMD and NVidia coming out with drivers to prevent this and to err fix some problem or other I am sure they will find.

The alternative for them is less hardware sales as people will not have to upgrade as often.

But if upgrading means getting another Nvidia/AMD card, then it's not bad for them at all.

And people will always want to upgrade sooner or later.

Either way, I really wouldn't expect much to come of all this as people have explained above.

 

[Dygaza]

One big positive side I see in this tech, is that it will make multigpu more mainstream than current SLI/CF combos are. Amount of people who purchase 2 new cards for SLI/CF is very small compared to people who upgrade one card + has old card to throw in as secondary card.

 

[LambChop]

No its not
If its already invented can I right now use an AMD GPU with a Nvidia GPU and gain performance?

Nope!

Bless

Scalable Link Interface (SLI) is a brand name for a multi-GPU technology developed by NVIDIA for linking two or more video cards together to produce a single output. SLI is an algorithm of parallel processing for computer graphics, meant to increase the processing power available for graphics.

I've underlined the really really obvious bit for you, you may still miss it though but I'm willing to take the risk.

So two cards will be linked together to produce an end output.

As I say, its already invented, next.

 

[pete910]

Even 3dfx cards did it SLI back in the day so in ain't new, Using different cards though would be good but I don't see that happening even if it is possible via dx/vulkan

 

[shankly1985]

Bless

Scalable Link Interface (SLI) is a brand name for a multi-GPU technology developed by NVIDIA for linking two or more video cards together to produce a single output. SLI is an algorithm of parallel processing for computer graphics, meant to increase the processing power available for graphics.

I've underlined the really really obvious bit for you, you may still miss it though but I'm willing to take the risk.

So two cards will be linked together to produce an end output.

As I say, its already invented, next.

My point is more the fact having nvidia + amd = more performance.. Atm this isn't possible least in a practical matter.. So until directx games start rolling out supporting this then we remain still has we are now.

Xxx

 

[Dygaza]

Even 3dfx cards did it SLI back in the day so in ain't new, Using different cards though would be good but I don't see that happening even if it is possible via dx/vulkan

Reason for this? Markets are a lot bigger for it than they are for traditional SLI/CF. So it's more worth for developers to focus in this than linked adapter mode.