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Hi everyone,

I own a firepro w8000 which has a very good performance, really like it, but the only problem is that Octane does not support AMD and there are various plugins for C4D (TFD), also not supported, so I decided to buy an Nvidia card.

Titan is good but when it comes to video editing in premier or viewport in C4D it just cannot compete with the w8000. Originally I wanted to sell my AMD card, but seems impossible to get a reasonable price (£350 is not reasonable, as I see).

Anyway, after a long struggle to sell the AMD card I realised that I would rather keep it, so here is the question:

1 Can I use these 2 cards in the same system?

2. Can I use w8000 on one screen for Premier and use AE, C4D in the another screen with Nvidia? Would it be any benefit of this?

3. Would Octane work properly?

I know Nvida cards automaticly disable physics when sees an AMD, but I dont mind, I dont really need to that function I guess.

Has anyone got any experience regarding this topic?

Thank you!

Misi

My experience is that this is very system and software dependent.
We have had machines here with both, sometimes things like 3ds max will have problems, even if the OS is fine and has both cards and drivers installed ok.

I think in general, you will not know for sure until you try it...

Octane can run with any card being the display card (the one the monitor is plugged into), so long as there is an NVIDIA card installed (with functioning drivers) that octane can see as a CUDA device that it can use it for rendering.

A common case for this is to have your monitors plugged into something like an onboard HD4000 and have the NVIDIA card selected for rendering. This way your UI remains smooth and responsive because your display GPU is not busy rendering.

Thank you for the fast answer!:) Tomorrow I am going to try it! Is therre anything I should be aware of? I think the PSU is fine (1000W) jsut as the mobo (ASUS p9x79).

One more thing.

Should I use the w8000 to control my two screens and leave the Titan empty, so as you said it is just for rendering?

Thanks again!!!

misi wrote:Should I use the w8000 to control my two screens and leave the Titan empty, so as you said it is just for rendering?

Yes, this is the best setup for octane.

Cool! Thank you!

misi,

were you successful at using your W8000 alongside your Titans?

I ask that because I'm currenly having a octane rig built (3 x 780 6 gig) and wanted my fourth card to be the one drving the display to be used with maya (Firepro W7000). I want to use the 3 GTX 780 6gigs for octane render only.

how did you install the drivers (in what order)?


thanks in advance for your help

Hi,

Sorry for the late reply. I assume it is too late now, but never know.

So yes, it works perfect! Highly recommended setup if you ask me!

First I installed the AMD then the Nvidia. I have to admit I had to uninstall every driver first and then reinstall them in the mentioned order.

How did it go?