- Feb 28, 2009
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Forgive my ignorance on this matter - I am not an IT hardware expert. I have been building gaming setups for myself for years and was aware a few ways you could use more than one GPU. I have personally tried SLI and Crossfire. There is also the mix and match Lucid Hydra and 'switch between' Optimus type of thing that I know of.
Anyways they were setting up my workstation at my job and I knew the general specs of the Dell T3500 workstation they were giving me. What surprised me was to see our hardware guy plug in an ATI FirePro in one PCI-E slot and an Nvidia 450 in another and then run two separate lines out to each of my monitors.
How does this work? If the cards aren't working in tandem through a bridge (forgetting the fact that they are both ATI and Nvidia), how do they divide the activity? How does each card handle the load in general and what do they do when I expand an application to fill both monitors? Just curious.
Anyways they were setting up my workstation at my job and I knew the general specs of the Dell T3500 workstation they were giving me. What surprised me was to see our hardware guy plug in an ATI FirePro in one PCI-E slot and an Nvidia 450 in another and then run two separate lines out to each of my monitors.
How does this work? If the cards aren't working in tandem through a bridge (forgetting the fact that they are both ATI and Nvidia), how do they divide the activity? How does each card handle the load in general and what do they do when I expand an application to fill both monitors? Just curious.