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4 monitors at 1440p posible on gtx 1050?

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Hi everyone, this seems like something very basic, but I can't find an official answer anywhere.
I'm trying to find out if I can output to 4 monitors at 1440p (for stock charts, not gaming) with a gtx 1050 3gb, this one to be exact:

https://www.gigabyte.com/Graphics-Card/GV-N1050OC-3GL#sp

 

What confuses me is the "maximal digital resolution", I can't find anywhere is that means the maximum framebuffer resolution the card can manage split across all outputs or if that is just the max resolution for one of them. Depending on this 1440p could be no problem, or I could be "capped" to 4 1080p monitors (7680x4320 / 4 = 1920x1080).

I have 4 ASUS 1440p monitors, with VGA, DVI, HDMI and DP, so connections would not be an issue, but I don't want to buy the thing just to plug the monitors and get a 1080p output on each.

 

Does anybody have any real-world experience or any official info? Every link I find says completely the opposite of the last one I check.

Thanks!

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Yes you can drive all 4 monitors with it, the so called max resolution would be for a single panel.

 

Do have in mind that you'll need Dual Link DVI-D to achieve 1440p for the last port.

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4 minutes ago, Princess Cadence said:

Yes you can drive all 4 monitors with it, the so called max resolution would be for a single panel.

 

Do have in mind that you'll need Dual Link DVI-D to achieve 1440p for the last port.

Wow, that was fast. I have DL-DVI (currently driving one of the monitors at 1440p so I'm guessing that shouldn't be an issue), HDMI and DP.

Are you certain that the max digital resolution is per-output and not a global limit for the card? That would make me life so much easier. Thanks again!

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23 minutes ago, mdanielm said:

What confuses me is the "maximal digital resolution", I can't find anywhere is that means the maximum framebuffer resolution the card can manage split across all outputs or if that is just the max resolution for one of them. Depending on this 1440p could be no problem, or I could be "capped" to 4 1080p monitors (7680x4320 / 4 = 1920x1080).

Isn't 7680x4320 16x 1920x1080?

 

1920 x 4 = 7680

1080 x 4 = 4320

 

Or 7680 x 4320 = 33 177 600

1920 x 1080 = 2 073 600 x 16 = 33 177 600

 

That is way more pixels than on 4x 1440p monitors (14 745 600)

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1 hour ago, Pasi123 said:

Isn't 7680x4320 16x 1920x1080?

 

1920 x 4 = 7680

1080 x 4 = 4320

 

Or 7680 x 4320 = 33 177 600

1920 x 1080 = 2 073 600 x 16 = 33 177 600

 

That is way more pixels than on 4x 1440p monitors (14 745 600)

That's my biggest facepalm in a while. You are correct, that would be a 4x4 grid of 1080p monitors, not just 4 monitors. I'm guessing then that my question is mute, given that:

7680x4320 = 33 mpixels

2560x1440 = 3,6 mpixels x 4 = 14,75 mpixels which is way lower than those 33 max.

 

Ok, I guess I should just buy the 1050 then?

 

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4 hours ago, mdanielm said:

Hi everyone, this seems like something very basic, but I can't find an official answer anywhere.
I'm trying to find out if I can output to 4 monitors at 1440p (for stock charts, not gaming) with a gtx 1050 3gb, this one to be exact:

https://www.gigabyte.com/Graphics-Card/GV-N1050OC-3GL#sp

 

What confuses me is the "maximal digital resolution", I can't find anywhere is that means the maximum framebuffer resolution the card can manage split across all outputs or if that is just the max resolution for one of them. Depending on this 1440p could be no problem, or I could be "capped" to 4 1080p monitors (7680x4320 / 4 = 1920x1080).

I have 4 ASUS 1440p monitors, with VGA, DVI, HDMI and DP, so connections would not be an issue, but I don't want to buy the thing just to plug the monitors and get a 1080p output on each.

 

Does anybody have any real-world experience or any official info? Every link I find says completely the opposite of the last one I check.

Thanks!

It is possible, however I would not recommend 1440p on a GTX 1050 if you are gaming, much less 4 1440p monitors.

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10 hours ago, ImAyaanKhan said:

It is possible, however I would not recommend 1440p on a GTX 1050 if you are gaming, much less 4 1440p monitors.

No no, this is not for gaming, this is for stock graphs and office use, just plain old windows desktop but in 4 1440p monitors, no gaming of any kind. Heck, this could be 1440@30hz and it wouldn't matter for this scenario.

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On 4/24/2019 at 12:09 AM, mdanielm said:

No no, this is not for gaming, this is for stock graphs and office use, just plain old windows desktop but in 4 1440p monitors, no gaming of any kind. Heck, this could be 1440@30hz and it wouldn't matter for this scenario.

Alright, then it's perfectly fine. You probably do 2160x1440 @60Hz on the four monitors easily, provided you have enough outputs

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