Running AMD and NVidia in the same PC

[peterwalkley]

I've searched for answers to this but most replies date from a few years ago, so wondering if anyone has any more recent experience.

I currently run a water cooled 290 and am happy with it for the games I play. However, I'm also looking at doing some personal learning projects needing CUDA which means I need to go green team. I don't need the latest shiny toys from Nvidia, so a second hand or low spec (e.g. 1050/1060) is more than enough - not looking to spend more than ~150 quid and lower the better really.

Is running AMD and Nvidia in the same PC going to cause me grief ?

There are some online hosted alternatives where I rent GPU access, but prefer to keep everything local to me if I can.


EDIT: 4/1/19. It does indeed just work out of the box as per the thread below. Plugged card in, installed minimal driver (omitted GeForce experience, 3D and sound options) and all is good.

 

[Armageus]

Should be fine - I've run various mixtures of AMD/NVIDIA cards in the same machine, both at work for multi monitor use, and more recently at home as part of mining rigs.

AMD/NVIDIA and even Intel drivers all coexist fine these days(as do the various SDKs e.g NVIDIA CUDA, AMD App SDK)

 

[ChocoViennese]

As other poster, should be fine. Have you thought about OpenCL? https://www.khronos.org/opencl/ May save you having to buy a new GPU.

 

[peterwalkley]

As other poster, should be fine. Have you thought about OpenCL? https://www.khronos.org/opencl/ May save you having to buy a new GPU.

CUDA seems to be the only game in town for what I'm looking at : http://fast.ai Trying to avoid getting too side-tracked into making "non standard" environments work. I know from many years of experience that's a recipe for piddling time away unproductively.

 

[LoadsaMoney]

As said above, be fine, with Dx12, you can actually use an AMD card, and a Nvidia one together, to boost performance in games.

I don't think there will be any games out that would use that feature though, as Nvidia would block it most likely, to stop everyone buying AMDs cheap cards to pair with theirs, instead of buying another one of their expensive ones to pair with it

 

[ChocoViennese]

piddling time away unproductively.

I call that 'professional development'

Funny actually, I am undertaking some just now, working through this book: https://www-bcf.usc.edu/~gareth/ISL/ Free to download if you are learning about learning (so to speak), in an R environment.

 

[gpuerrilla]

Ooh very fancy ^.

I have a 1060 and vega in my rig works no bother.