Stardock Creates Innovative Software that Allows Combination of AMD and Nvidia Cards

Calling all PC enthusiasts! Stardock's introducing some new, interesting tech that merges two rivals together, making high-end gaming more affordable. According to the interview with GamesBeat, CEO Brad Wardell announced a software solution that enables PC enthusiasts to use both AMD and NVIDIA cards in the same PC, and you won't need AMD's CrossFire or NVIDIA's SLI for this. All you need to do is plug in existing PCIe ports. More will be discussed about this software during the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco.

According to Wardell:

"We will come up with a cool marketing name for it. Basically, it's a multi-GPU. You can mix-and-match cards however you want."

 
To make this a software option is amazing in itself, and this will allow cheaper users to use older mixes of cards to run even VR or graphics-intensive games. 

"One of the biggest problems with games is that a new video card comes out from AMD and Nvidia, and they're like [expensive], and you have to make a call - I like my video card, I can play most games on it, and I don't want to spend $800 on some new video card. But imagine, instead, hey, they're having a sale [using my GTX 760 as an example] on an AMD 290 for $75. Wouldn't it be cool to put this into your computer and double your performance? You keep this in there [the 760], you put this in there [the 290] and your games are twice as fast, without doing anything else.

Nvidia likes this so much - they're on the PC, and this gives the PC a huge advantage for PC gaming."

Stardock apparently has been developing this for a year, all while connecting with both AMD and Nvidia:
 

"They don't love that part [mixing competing cards in one PC), but they do love the idea that people will buy more cards. It's a major friction where someone says, 'I have a card that works. I'm not going to spend $800 - they don't get the sale. But you're going to get the same effect by adding an $80 video card [to your existing setup]."

Unfortunately, this isn't great for overclocking, but when it comes to saving for VR, then this is definitely an upgrade everyone is looking forward to.