Dual 4K monitors with a single Nvidia 1080 card?

[guillaumezeeman]

I recently purchased a new computer and I was wondering whether my system will be able to run dual 4K monitors.

I'm not an avid gamer but I do want to be able to play demanding games every once in a while. 

They do not have to be running on ultra-high settings.

 

Is it possible to run Dual 4K monitors with a single Nvidia 1080 graphics card and still be able to play a demanding game on one monitor?

The monitors I'm eyeing to buy are dual Asus XB271HK 4K monitors.

I do not know what specification you need in order to answer my question.

 

Thank you all in advance for your responses. 

[Sir Asvald]

3 minutes ago, guillaumezeeman said:

I recently purchased a new computer and I was wondering whether my system will be able to run dual 4K monitors.

I'm not an avid gamer but I do want to be able to play demanding games every once in a while. 

They do not have to be running on ultra-high settings.

 

Is it possible to run Dual 4K monitors with a Nvidia 1080 graphics card and still be able to play a demanding game on one monitor?

The monitors I'm eyeing to buy are dual Asus XB271HK 4K monitors.

I do not know what specification you need in order to answer my question.

 

Thank you all in advance for your responses. 

It's impossible..

[ALwin]

Yes you should be able to.  You can easily run dual 4K monitors on a 1080 for non-gaming stuff and for gaming, you can run it on a single 4K monitor on decent enough graphics settings.

 

EDIT:

Though is there any particular reason you want 4K screens?  If it's for productivity, fine, though keep in mind you may need to set the scaling in Windows to about 150% as text will be very small.  And when you game, you can always scale it down to 1440p resolution in the game.

[guillaumezeeman]

Thank you Abdul201588 and ALwin for your replies, but now I'm confused..

Is it possible for one Nvidia graphics card to power to 4K monitors and does someone know the limitations of this setup?

 

[ALwin]

46 minutes ago, guillaumezeeman said:

Thank you Abdul201588 and ALwin for your replies, but now I'm confused..

Is it possible for one Nvidia graphics card to power to 4K monitors and does someone know the limitations of this setup?

 

You can run two 4K monitors easily with a GTX 1080, for non-gaming stuff.  But when you game, you should use only one monitor and it probably will not work at 60fps on very high/ultra graphics settings for the game.

 

I am gaming with a single Titan X (Maxwell version, I actually have two Titan X cards in my system and they used to be set for SLI, but since I added a Quadro GPU I had to disable the SLI on the Titans) on a 5K DELL monitor scaled down to 1440p in the game and it easily works at 60fps on the highest settings for that game. Keep in mind that different games might have different definitions of what "highest" settings mean.

 

If you have dual 980ti or 1080 in SLI, you should be able to game in 4K resolution at 60fps on very high to ultra graphics settings (depending on the game of course).

 

The reason I say 60fps is due to the 60hz refresh rate of 4K monitors.  I'm not a serious gamer, I only play games occasionally.

[guillaumezeeman]

Thanks ALwin!!

 

I want to buy two 4K monitors for the extra pixels I can use when I need to work.

I'm not going to use them to play video games. 

I have one more question, can I play a game at 1080p and leave a 4k monitor on, or do I need to disable or turn of the other 4k monitor.

[Lays]

1 minute ago, guillaumezeeman said:

Thanks ALwin!!

 

I want to buy two 4K monitors for the extra pixels I can use when I need to work.

I'm not going to use them to play video games. 

I have one more question, can I play a game at 1080p and leave a 4k monitor on, or do I need to disable or turn of the other 4k monitor.

You can play on one screen with whatever resolution you want.  The other screen will just be your secondary monitor, for music / other programs  etc.

[OddsCrazyStuff]

2 minutes ago, guillaumezeeman said:

I have one more question, can I play a game at 1080p and leave a 4k monitor on, or do I need to disable or turn of the other 4k monitor.

Depends on the game. The 2nd monitor will consume some Vram and GPU power.

So get a program that monitors GPU resources, like gpuz, and keep an eye on it. If you find the card throttle it self, then you might want to disable the 2nd monitor, to reduce the amount the card throttles.

[Lays]

1 minute ago, OddsCrazyStuff said:

Depends on the game. The 2nd monitor will consume some Vram and GPU power.

So get a program that monitors GPU resources, like gpuz, and keep an eye on it. If you find the card throttle it self, then you might want to disable the 2nd monitor, to reduce the amount the card throttles.

 

Oh good lord it'll be fine.  Windows desktop uses like no VRAM whatsoever, a 1080 has 8GB of vram. 

[OddsCrazyStuff]

1 minute ago, Lays said:

 

Oh good lord it'll be fine.  Windows desktop uses like no VRAM whatsoever, a 1080 has 8GB of vram. 

Depends on what you do on the 2nd monitor. I know streamers have the problem with 2nd monitor limiting game performance, in some games (like modded Skyrim).