GPU Programming and Gaming

[KidMuon]

If I have two Nvidia graphics cards and I choose to not use the SLI Bridge across them will they work independent of each other?

 

I do a lot of programming and I want to use one of them for parallel computing while keeping the other one free so that I can play games while the programs run in the background. I don't play any super intensive games and my current programs make very little use of the CPU so I am not worried about taxing my CPU by running programs and playing at the same time. My programs are much too intensive to try to game and run them at the same time. Each time I decide to run them it takes a few hours and the fans are going pretty good while they run. 

 

Relevant Specs:

CPU Intel 4790

2 X GPU Nvidia 970 

16 GB RAM

 

 

[Flowroro]

If I have two Nvidia graphics cards and I choose to not use the SLI Bridge across them will they work independent of each other?

I do a lot of programming and I want to use one of them for parallel computing while keeping the other one free so that I can play games while the programs run in the background. I don't play any super intensive games and my current programs make very little use of the CPU so I am not worried about taxing my CPU by running programs and playing at the same time. My programs are much too intensive to try to game and run them at the same time. Each time I decide to run them it takes a few hours and the fans are going pretty good while they run.

Relevant Specs:

CPU Intel 4790

2 X GPU Nvidia 970

16 GB RAM

As far as I know, as long as sli is disabled and there is no bridge, gpu2 should be at 0% usage till u use it for something. Worked on my gpus

[ConnorDahne]

If I have two Nvidia graphics cards and I choose to not use the SLI Bridge across them will they work independent of each other?

 

I do a lot of programming and I want to use one of them for parallel computing while keeping the other one free so that I can play games while the programs run in the background. I don't play any super intensive games and my current programs make very little use of the CPU so I am not worried about taxing my CPU by running programs and playing at the same time. My programs are much too intensive to try to game and run them at the same time. Each time I decide to run them it takes a few hours and the fans are going pretty good while they run. 

 

Relevant Specs:

CPU Intel 4790

2 X GPU Nvidia 970 

16 GB RAM

If you truly don't plan on putting them in sli you could get two different cards.

Like a gtx 970 and an original gtx titan for near the same price.

From what I understand Maxwell isn't t he greatest with compute..