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PC Drivers & Software

ZaCaTaC
Journeyman III
‎02-08-2024 04:57 AM

One card with Adrenaline, and another with PRO

Hey! I play games and my wife is an architect. We use the same PC, simultaneously, through a multi seat software that essentially just divides our tasks - quite handy.

However, I've noticed that when you have 2x AMD cards, they seem to have to have drivers from the same edition (Adrenaline or PRO). By a small margin, it would be more convenient for me to use Adrenaline for my RX 6700 XT and her to use PRO for the W5500.

I tried uninstalling all my drivers and disabled Windows from searching for drivers, connected one GPU and installed the respective drivers, replaced that GPU with the other and installed it's respective drivers, then tried to boot with both and, well, my computer - and especially the AMD software - didn't like that.

Is there a solution to using two AMD cards, one with each driver?

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FunkZ
Grandmaster
‎02-08-2024 05:23 AM

Yes, build 2 PC's.

Ryzen R7 5700X | B550 Gaming X | 2x16GB G.Skill 3600 | Radeon RX 7900XT
Ryzen R7 5700G | B550 Gaming X | 2x8GB G.Skill 4000 | Radeon Vega 8 IGP
Ryzen R5 5600 | B550 Gaming Edge | 4x8GB G.Skill 3600 | Radeon RX 6800XT
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ZaCaTaC
Journeyman III
‎02-15-2024 11:37 AM

I'm not going to build another PC over a 1-2% performance difference in terms of the driver version. Both cards can use Adrenaline/PRO drivers, just not one of each. I'd rather have 2 PCs for the price of one... literally.

It was simply a question of curiosity.

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elstaci
In response to ZaCaTaC
MVP
‎02-15-2024 11:50 AM

It is impossible to try and install 2 different AMD Drivers at the same time. There will be a conflict between the drivers especially since both are compatible with both GPUs, Pro and Consumer.

The Adrenaline driver is optimized for Gaming while the AMD Pro driver is optimized for using Professional Apps like your wife's programs.

Since your wife use of the PC, in my opinion, involves directly with her work I would suggest to install the AMD Pro driver for your wife's job since you can still play games but it isn't optimized for gaming purposes.

NOTE: I was thinking maybe if you create a Virtual Windows in which you will just run the RX6700XT and its driver so I googled that and found this thread at SuperUser: https://superuser.com/questions/1161322/is-it-possible-to-run-two-graphics-cards-for-different-appli...

Also found this article about "Assign GPUs to virtual machines with VMware vGPU mode": https://www.techtarget.com/searchitoperations/tip/Assign-GPUs-to-virtual-machines-with-VMware-vGPU-m...

Not sure if this will work or not.

 

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