One rig different GPUs

[FP91G]

Once upon a time doing something like mixing video card types would have been frowned upon, but those days are long gone now. Developers have had over a decade now to implement all sorts of feature into their mining software that enable you to do lots of things like mine multiple coins or as you asked about, using different types of GPUs.

Now only beginners are trying to assemble mining from different video cards. I don’t see any problems with this, but it’s not very convenient from the point of view of settings and maintenance, if, for example, one video card heats up more than others because it is more powerful.
If I’m putting together a rig, I always take a set of video cards for a certain power supply in order to use the equipment with maximum efficiency.

[swogerino]

Once upon a time doing something like mixing video card types would have been frowned upon, but those days are long gone now. Developers have had over a decade now to implement all sorts of feature into their mining software that enable you to do lots of things like mine multiple coins or as you asked about, using different types of GPUs.

Now only beginners are trying to assemble mining from different video cards. I don’t see any problems with this, but it’s not very convenient from the point of view of settings and maintenance, if, for example, one video card heats up more than others because it is more powerful.
If I’m putting together a rig, I always take a set of video cards for a certain power supply in order to use the equipment with maximum efficiency.

I would still suggest you do buy cards from the same manufacturer at least even if there are different series as this is my personal experience,I have had a rig with 3 AMD GPU-s and 3 NVIDIA GPU-s which worked fine for most of the time but the driver updates of either side put me in a bit of down time rarely until I installed the updated drivers and this was with trial and errors to see what was the problem.

I now own a personal rig with 3 cards at home as we split the partnership since Ethereum moved on Pos on September 2022 and since then I am running a Rtx 3060 ti,a Rtx 2060 12 GB and Rtx 3060 12 GB all running perfectly fine and the temperatures are near the same with the 3000 series just 2 degree Celsius more as they are more powerful cards.I have no down time with these cards.

[JayDDee]

It all depends on what you have. With multiple rigs you can group the GPUs by brand, series, model, whatever.
If you don't you have to deal with multiple drivers and mining clients.

[FP91G]

Once upon a time doing something like mixing video card types would have been frowned upon, but those days are long gone now. Developers have had over a decade now to implement all sorts of feature into their mining software that enable you to do lots of things like mine multiple coins or as you asked about, using different types of GPUs.

Now only beginners are trying to assemble mining from different video cards. I don’t see any problems with this, but it’s not very convenient from the point of view of settings and maintenance, if, for example, one video card heats up more than others because it is more powerful.
If I’m putting together a rig, I always take a set of video cards for a certain power supply in order to use the equipment with maximum efficiency.

I would still suggest you do buy cards from the same manufacturer at least even if there are different series as this is my personal experience,I have had a rig with 3 AMD GPU-s and 3 NVIDIA GPU-s which worked fine for most of the time but the driver updates of either side put me in a bit of down time rarely until I installed the updated drivers and this was with trial and errors to see what was the problem.

I now own a personal rig with 3 cards at home as we split the partnership since Ethereum moved on Pos on September 2022 and since then I am running a Rtx 3060 ti,a Rtx 2060 12 GB and Rtx 3060 12 GB all running perfectly fine and the temperatures are near the same with the 3000 series just 2 degree Celsius more as they are more powerful cards.I have no down time with these cards.

Usually problems after updating drivers occur in Windows. Rtx 3060 ti, and Rtx 2060 and Rtx 3060 are approximately the same video cards in terms of power consumption and operating temperature, so they can be installed in any order in a mining rig. But I want to say that if you buy the same models of video cards, this will not guarantee 100% failure-free operation.

[Vispilio]

Can be done but your rig might be prone to slightly more freezes and micromanagement.

In my experience, using the same GPU model (even the same manufacturer) for 1 rig and having 1 overarching set of OC parameters per rig has yielded more stability compared to micro managing each individual card.

Even for the same GPU, performance can vary somewhat depending on the RAM or the manufacturer...

[JayDDee]

Can be done but your rig might be prone to slightly more freezes and micromanagement.

In my experience, using the same GPU model (even the same manufacturer) for 1 rig and having 1 overarching set of OC parameters per rig has yielded more stability compared to micro managing each individual card.

Even for the same GPU, performance can vary somewhat depending on the RAM or the manufacturer...

This is one of those questions where if you have to ask the answer is probably no. Someone capable of doing it wouldn't need to ask.

[FP91G]

Can be done but your rig might be prone to slightly more freezes and micromanagement.

In my experience, using the same GPU model (even the same manufacturer) for 1 rig and having 1 overarching set of OC parameters per rig has yielded more stability compared to micro managing each individual card.

Even for the same GPU, performance can vary somewhat depending on the RAM or the manufacturer...

I have had many times when one of 6 cards does not support memory overclocking. As a result, 5 cards work with an overclock of +600 and one card works without overclocking, because with any overclocking of the memory of this video card, the mining farm either freezes or reboots. And I need several of them to calculate such a video card, and sometimes there are 2 such video cards in a mining farm