What happens when you combine the technologies of AMD and Nvidia? The result is impressive, as a gamer just shows.
Both AMD and Nvidia offer their own ecosystems when it comes to graphics cards. Certain features, such as Nvidia’s DLSS or AMD’s Fluid Motion Frames technology, can only be used on the graphics cards of the respective manufacturer.
A user has now combined the two technologies and created a massive performance boost. However, the whole action was not entirely straightforward, as the colleagues from WCCFtech explain.
Theoretically, you could recreate the experiment, but you will also need two different graphics cards: one from AMD and one from Nvidia. Additionally, you will need a corresponding motherboard where the PCIe slots are positioned favorably so that the two graphics cards can be combined.
Combination of two similar techniques offers enormous performance boost
What exactly did the user use? The user on the Chinese website Quasarzone combined software from AMD and Nvidia:
- Nvidia’s DLSS3 was the first implementation of frame interpolation on gaming PCs. This technology essentially doubles the frames by inserting an AI-generated image that often looks better than the native image. DLSS 3 is integrated into the game using the source code that is accessible through the DLSS SDK from NVIDIA.
- AMD’s “Fluid Motion Frames technology” is enabled on the driver side and not through the game code like DLSS. The image quality of AMD’s software is not very detailed, but it supports more games.
Both technologies serve a similar purpose and are both intended to significantly increase FPS. However, they work completely differently. For both to be used simultaneously, a system is required that supports both AMD and Nvidia software. To achieve this, the user came up with a trick:
The system outputs the image on the display via the AMD graphics card, but the calculations should be taken over by the Nvidia graphics card’s GPU.
What does the experiment bring? Depending on the game, the combination of AMD and Nvidia provides you with a significant performance boost: In Cyberpunk 2077 with 4K resolution, using both technologies resulted in a gain of almost three times the native resolution:
Even in comparison, if the software had been used without the combination. 100% represents the base performance of the game:
- The game with DLSS enabled offers 47% more FPS (147% vs 100%)
- Cyberpunk 2077 with “Fluid Motion Frames technology” activated delivers 99% more FPS (199% vs 100%)
- Combining both technologies in Cyberpunk 2077 even achieves 191.9% more FPS (291.9% vs 100%).
However, not all games benefit from the boost: Both Starfield and Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart also showed a performance boost, but the image quality suffers quite a bit.
