SLI - GTX 970 different brands?

[LightAngels]

Somehow i have these:

https://www.superbiiz.com/detail.php?name=EV-970ACX4

and

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/nvidia-geforce-gtx-970-4gb-gddr5-pci-express-3-0-graphics-card-silver-black/9855169.p?id=1219441201895&skuId=9855169

Can i use SLI with these two?

Thanks in advance 😀

 

[avenseth12]

You can SLI different brands of the same model. Since both 970 you should be okay.

 

[Rogue Leader]

I believe it will work however if 1 is overclocked it will be pulled down to the speed of the non overclocked one.

 

[mao_dze_dun]

Yeah, you'll have zero problem. You can in fact even SLI/Crossfire cards from different generations in case the chip itself is the same, i.e. 290x/390x come the next update from AMD. Unless I'm mistaken it's exactly the same story with Nvidia. In any case the brand doesn't matter for a same model SLI as Nvidia is the one that provides the GPUs to all manufacturers so they're the same across the board with minor difference in clock speed. However, like Rogue Leader pointed out - the SLI configuration will use the clock speed of the GPU/VRAM of the "weaker" card. Not that it would matter with so much power )).

 

[Mousemonkey]

Yeah, you'll have zero problem. You can in fact even SLI/Crossfire cards from different generations in case the chip itself is the same, i.e. 290x/390x come the next update from AMD. Unless I'm mistaken it's exactly the same story with Nvidia. In any case the brand doesn't matter for a same model SLI as Nvidia is the one that provides the GPUs to all manufacturers so they're the same across the board with minor difference in clock speed. However, like Rogue Leader pointed out - the SLI configuration will use the clock speed of the GPU/VRAM of the "weaker" card. Not that it would matter with so much power )).

You are mistaken, SLi does not work that way.

 

[maddogfargo]

nVidia SLI is a little less flexible than crossfire. But as long as they are both GTX 970 cards they should work, but will likely throttle to the lowest common denominator for core, boost and RAM speeds.