Can the GTX 1070 support four 1440p monitors?

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Let say i use one for gaming the rest just for video, web browsing would it work?

I read on Nvidia's website it has a max resolution of 8k so im assuming that is for one monitor or a multi-monitor gaming session set up. (i.e. gaming on two 4k monitors ect.)

I also read if 4 monitors are hooked up the dvi support cannot be used - i have 1 hdmi, 3 dp, 1 dvi ports on my 1070 card.
 
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No, he said gaming on 1 and videos on the other. No, he does not only have 1 dvi port. He has hdmi and 3 dp as well. No 1070 in the world only comes with 1 dvi. Very gpus at all only come with 1 dvi and nothing else.

Again multiple 4k monitors is next to nothing as far as just running low resource tasks. You can run 4x 4k montiors playing videos on a pentium and 2x 730. Some people just need video walls and get help here and they have no issues running with even older hardware. Intel ipgus can handle 2x 4k monitors for videos and basic tasks. Stock traders are more common as for as low resource tasks and lots of screen space. But those graphs also put more strain on it and usually go with something a bit higher like a i3 and 1050. I...
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Max res is per monitor and is a limit of dp. It's not related to multi monitor surround which will go much higher since you could have multiple 8k monitors. Dvi should work. You don't need a hoss of a system depending on what the pc is being used for. More monitors is just a few hundred MB vram and almost nothing else if just playing videos.
 
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True, but he did say a gaming system, so I am just assuming he is going to be running it hard. I believe he has only 1 DVI port. So far as I know there would be no way of using four different monitors with that unless you use a splitter and show the same thing on each monitor. Many people want something different on each monitor, which means you have to have four different streams going at the same time. At 4K, four different streams could be a lot of processing. So while he might not need a hoss of a system, he definitely will need something much better than bottom of the line also.
 
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No, he said gaming on 1 and videos on the other. No, he does not only have 1 dvi port. He has hdmi and 3 dp as well. No 1070 in the world only comes with 1 dvi. Very gpus at all only come with 1 dvi and nothing else.

Again multiple 4k monitors is next to nothing as far as just running low resource tasks. You can run 4x 4k montiors playing videos on a pentium and 2x 730. Some people just need video walls and get help here and they have no issues running with even older hardware. Intel ipgus can handle 2x 4k monitors for videos and basic tasks. Stock traders are more common as for as low resource tasks and lots of screen space. But those graphs also put more strain on it and usually go with something a bit higher like a i3 and 1050. I think you get the point of how very little more screen space needs. Like a said, a few hundred MB of vram and almost nothing else.
 
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No, I mean he only has one DVI in addition to the others. Not just one DVI port period. He does only have one DVI port. That doesn't mean he doesn't have other DP and HDMI ports.

But I can tell you 100 percent for a fact, even using the other monitors for browsing and just one for gaming, it does indeed use a lot more power. I have a dual monitor setup and depending on the type of browsing I do it can sometimes cause a game to stutter. If you have a game maxing out your card, and some games do, than any video rendering beyond that can cause some drain. I know that for a fact, because I have seen it happen myself. And lowering my resolution did help it out some.
 
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No one should be limited to just using dvi when they have other ports and monitors don't just have dvi so it's a moot point in every situation. It makes no sense why it was brought up.

Who hasn't used multiple monitors in this age? If maxing out the gpu, you are going to have issues doing anything else, that's obvious since you are maxing it. No matter how little it takes it still needs that little bit and it doesn't even have that to spare. But the point you brought up was about having a hoss pc which isn't true. You could have a 8700k oc to 5ghz and titan v and stutter in those situations but no one will be saying you need a better hoss pc because of it. The majority of people here use some voice chat software or have another video playing/browsing with a game open and none of them will say they have issues with lower end pcs.

As mentioned even an intel igpu can do 2x 4k. I've done 4k even on lower c2d with an appropriate gpu. Being able to game at 4k is not the same thing. Obviously these can't and neither would a 1060. Video and browsing was specifically mentioned multiple times, not 4k gaming, not even once. If yours can't do video, you have issues.
 
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