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Mixed NVIDIA and AMD GPUs

Why pairing a modern GPU with an old one or a card from the other brand blocks container jobs, and how to fix it.

If your PC has a modern NVIDIA GPU (RTX 2000 series or newer) alongside an older card (a GT 210, GT 710, GTX 500 series or similar), or an NVIDIA card alongside an AMD one, Salad can't run most container jobs on it. The mismatched card interferes with how Salad detects what your system can do, so the compatibility check fails and most jobs are never assigned. You will be left with mining, CPU-only containers and bandwidth sharing, and far lower earnings.

The fix is to remove the extra card. Multi-GPU is not supported in any form; see Can I use multiple GPUs?

How to fix it

  1. Identify your GPUs. Press Win + R, type dxdiag, and check the Display tabs, or open Device Manager (Win + X > Device Manager) and expand Display adapters.
  2. Remove the older or mismatched GPU. If it is a card, physically remove it. If it is onboard graphics, disable it in your BIOS/UEFI.
  3. Reinstall your drivers cleanly. Use Display Driver Uninstaller (DDU) in Safe Mode to remove all old drivers, then install the current driver for the card you kept. See How to reinstall GPU drivers.
  4. Restart your PC.
  5. Verify in Salad. Start Chopping and wait for a job to run.

Still stuck?

Contact Salad Support with your machine ID, a screenshot of Device Manager's Display adapters section, and your log files zipped.

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Can I use multiple GPUs?

Salad uses one GPU per machine; a second dedicated card earns nothing and can cause a High GPU usage error.

Should I enable my GPU, my CPU, or both?

Which hardware to enable in Salad depending on what you have and how you use your PC.

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