Is it possible to add an accelerator card to a computer that has a GPU.
More information is needed, what kind of accelerator card, generally yeah
Assuming your system meets the requirements for the accelerator card, sure.
The system is full of accelerators, and you are free to add more. You need software that can take advantage of it though. The GPU is technically a graphics accelerator. Intel sells a cryptography accelerator card, a NIC or SmartNIC is often a network accelerator. You can even add entire computers on a PCIE slot if you wanted to. Basically, anything that offloads the work from the general purpose CPU can be classified as an accelerator card. Though even the CPU has specific hardware accelerators it is full of these days.
You just have to know what you are really looking for and whether it has drivers for your system, and whether your software can take advantage of it, or if writing software yourself you have to code it to use that accelerator.
I was looking at getting a pro vii and a MI50. They are the same as both are vega 20 7nm. Relatively not that costly and they both have water blocks available. I think it would be cool set up.
So physically adding, sure, pcie is pretty standardized.
But getting the software to send the right work, to the eight card? That might be tricky
But, people definitely do use accelerators alongside graphics cards.
I would ask which software one would like to make use of the accelerator, in case anyone ran into gotchas or stumbling blocks.
Like a video renderer, or a machine learning trainer, or a alt-coin miner…
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