Gtx 780 and 1080TI in one system

chucky9

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So i brought a 1080ti as i felt it was time to upgrade however my monitor are still connnected to the 780 because i dont have the right connections to put them into the 1080 ti, is there a way i can get both cards to work together on the system.
 
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Even if you would be using the second card, the 780 (non TI) should be almost 4 times weaker at this point. So I don't see how or why would anyone bother.
Unless you plan to use them as two separate cards, you don't need the old one. The 1080ti can be used on 5 monitors by itself and for rendering you'd get a better performance boost if you're using a CPU with more cores, rather than a 5 years old GPU.
Yeah you only have two options to use those two GPUs in one PC: use the 780 as a dedicated PhysX card (not nearly as useful as using a dedicated GPU for that as it once used to be), or use it as a secondary passive monitor GPU for web surfing or system monitoring while gaming (meaning not the primary gaming monitor).
 

JoeMomma

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I agree but have a question:

If I am doing graphics or 3D rendering that utilizes GPU Compute CUDA cores, will a 2nd GPU be utilized?

 

Cioby

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Even if you would be using the second card, the 780 (non TI) should be almost 4 times weaker at this point. So I don't see how or why would anyone bother.
Unless you plan to use them as two separate cards, you don't need the old one. The 1080ti can be used on 5 monitors by itself and for rendering you'd get a better performance boost if you're using a CPU with more cores, rather than a 5 years old GPU.
 
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RobCrezz

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Can do, depending on the program.