Dual GPUs of two different series?

mpeterson735

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Jan 21, 2017
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Hello all!

So I've seen this asked many times but never in the same way. And always for different reasons...


I currently have a MSI GTX 960, and will soon purchase and upgrade to an EVGA GTX 1080. Is there any advantage to running my two different GPUs together? Or could I even do so to begin with?

I only have one monitor but may go to two in the future. I don't play a ton of games on my PC but would like to. However mainly I need this for work (rendering from Maya, Blender, Zbrush, Unity, etc).

My specs:
CPU: Intel Core i7 6700k @ 4.00 GHz (skylake)

Motherboard: ASUS Z170-K

RAM: 32gb (4 x 8GB)
ADATA DDR4-2400

HardDrive: 2tb Hard Drive & 120gb SSD

GPU: MSI (nvidia geforce) GTX 960
& EVGA GTX 1080

PowerSupply: 550w

Monitor: Samsung CF391 Curved (32in) 1080p

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so, would it even help to dual card the 960 with a 1080? or is the 1080 enough that the 960 wouldn't make a difference?

 
Solution
You could use the 960 as a PhysX card, or use it to run more monitors.
That being said, the 1080 is more than capable to handle it by itself.

atljsf

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it is a waste of energy, noise, temperature source unwanted and a cost in general that is not require

the 1080 alone can do it well

both can run but no real advantage and only on certain games and specific apps will work both, other than that, is just a problem for you, handle two gpus
 

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