I pulled the trigger on a 1080 TI with 11 gigs of ram that will be here in a few days. I am currently running a 1060 with 6 gigs of ram. I do a lot of work in Premiere and After Effects. I also do a lot of screen capturing while playing games. Is it possible to run 2 video cards in one computer? If so, would it benefit me in anyway with the things that I do? Thanks in advance.
Anything useful that can be done with 2 video cards in one comp?
- Thread starter jcb1972
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Yes, you can run more than one graphics card in your computer (assuming you have more than one 16x slot), but always put your better card in the top slot, that way it will get the potentially higher bandwidth, especially if you're using anything else that uses the PCIe lanes, like a M.2 PCIe drive.
The two cards can't work together for the one job (SLI requires two cards the same, and the 1060 doesn't support it anyway), but what they can do is separate tasks at the same time. So, you can be playing and capturing it with your better card, while using the 2nd card for video editing.
The two cards can't work together for the one job (SLI requires two cards the same, and the 1060 doesn't support it anyway), but what they can do is separate tasks at the same time. So, you can be playing and capturing it with your better card, while using the 2nd card for video editing.
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Needing sli for using both on one job is only required for games. Sli and cf are gaming features. Sli actually messes up most other multi gpu uses. Pr only uses 1 gpu for preview, multi for exporting. Sli is not required nor is using the same gpu. Ae only uses 1 but only a few effects are even gpu accelerated. They won't give it more gpu acceleration like pr. It's mostly cpu but exporting can be done over a network on multiple pcs.
Screen capturing and other uses may have a negligible impact on performance (depending on what it is) but if power and heat isn't a concern then any little bit could help right?
Screen capturing and other uses may have a negligible impact on performance (depending on what it is) but if power and heat isn't a concern then any little bit could help right?
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