Do Nvidia GPU support AMD CPU and its motherboard

[kaushik37]

I have an AMD FX 6100 CPU, 4 GB DDR3 RAM (667 MHz) and Gigabyte 78-LMT-USB3 motherboard. I have recently changed my old 450 watt PSU to a more powerful 500 watt PSU. But I want to take a GPU within a reasonable price. Many have recommended me the Nvidia Geforce GTX 750 Ti GPU. But I want to know, do this card would support my CPU and motherboard? I had gone to a big IT Mall, and the representative told me that as my CPU is of AMD, I should have to buy Radeon GPUs and not Nvidia GPUs. Is this true? Please help as I am in a bit of confusion.

 

[elbert]

It supports Nvidia cards but I suggest the 1050ti.
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

Video Card: EVGA - GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4GB ACX 2.0 Video Card ($119.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $119.99
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-06-04 16:49 EDT-0400

 

[SchizTech]

The card is perfectly compatible. If you had an AMD "APU" (AMD marketing speak for CPU with integrated graphics) and wanted to combine it's graphics with a card as a quasi-crossfire for extra horsepower that would require an AMD GPU. That would be about the only situation in which a GeForce card simply wouldn't work (though it could still be used on it's own). Of course, that doesn't apply to an FX series CPU.

He also may have noted the particular board won't support SLI but that only matters if you intend to use multiple cards (and I haven't checked SLI compatibility with that board, so I'm just speculating on what he was referring to)

 

[SchizTech]

Yes, as the other poster noted there's a newer generation of GeForce available too.

 

[raisonjohn]

What the IT mall representative told you is not true. You don't need to pair an AMD CPU with an AMD GPU. You can mix and match whichever you prefer:

AMD CPU-MB + AMD GPU
Intel CPU-MB + Nvidia GPU
Intel CPU-MB + AMD GPU
AMD CPU-MB + Nvidia GPU

and they will work perfectly - no clear advantage of one over the other.

Note that your Gigabyte 78-LMT-USB3 motherboard only has 1x PCIe x16 slot (for a single GPU) - so you can't do either Nvidia SLI or AMD CrossFire.