all Monitor in my main gpu ?

[SirDougue]

Main GPU 1080TI
Secondary GPU 1060 6GB (For encoding)

I have 4 monitor
<<Main Monitor>> 240Hz
One 180hz
Pne Drawing Tablet Monitor
One 4K TV

Did i should plug my my main monitor in my 1080TI with all other plug in the same ?
Or Plug my main monitor in the 1080TI and plug the 3 other in my Nvidia GTX1060 ? 
That will save performance or still the same ?

[5x5]

The 1060 is quite pointless for the most part and only really sucks power. I'd say use the 1080 Ti and don't even bother with the 1060

[Mick Naughty]

I’d prolly split them up. One card normally won’t be able to down clock running 4 monitors. Had a card idle at 60c or so because of that. And it wasn’t a fancy 0 rpm mode card either. 

 

I never put that many one a card as they wont be able to connection wise and the only time I’m normally doing that is for surround. 

[ninbura]

On 9/16/2019 at 8:32 AM, 5x5 said:

The 1060 is quite pointless for the most part and only really sucks power. I'd say use the 1080 Ti and don't even bother with the 1060

The 1060 isn't pointless, encoding dips into VRAM and can absolutely degrade gaming performance.

That is also not to mention that he has multiple displays of varying refresh and resolution, many of which that require high bandwidth. OP can absolutely benefit from running a second GPU in this configuration, especially if whatever recording program he is using has a video preview.

As alluded to OP I would run all secondary monitors on the GTX 1060 as this can offload almost all extra GPU work from the 1080ti to the 1060 (with proper NVIDIA control panel configuration), allowing the 1080ti to better focus on the game you're playing.

For the best results you'll need to change settings per program in NVIDIA control panel, for example: If you're running OBS on a second monitor,  that monitor is connected to the 1060, you've chosen that the 1060 be used for encoding in OBS, and you've dictated in NVIDIA control panel that OBS be rendered with the 1060 you've completely offloaded that work from the 1080ti.

You should do this with every program you plan to run / display on secondary monitors while gaming on the main one.

Although one word of caution - I've experienced issues while recording / streaming on a computer with multiple displays of varying refresh / resolution being handled, though I've heard others claim this has been no issue for them. 

[5x5]

2 minutes ago, TheAgnda said:

The 1060 isn't pointless, encoding dips into VRAM and can absolutely degrade gaming performance.

That is also not to mention that he has multiple displays of varying refresh and resolution, many of which that require high bandwidth. OP can absolutely benefit from running a second GPU in this configuration, especially if whatever recording program he is using has a video preview.

As alluded to OP I would run all secondary monitors on the GTX 1060 as this can offload almost all extra GPU work from the 1080ti to the 1060 (with proper NVIDIA control panel configuration), allowing the 1080ti to better focus on the game you're playing.

For the best results you'll need to change settings per program in NVIDIA control panel, for example: If you're running OBS on a second monitor,  that monitor is connected to the 1060, you've chosen that the 1060 be used for encoding in OBS, and you've dictated in NVIDIA control panel that OBS be rendered with the 1060 you've completely offloaded that work from the 1080ti.

You should do this with every program you plan to run / display on secondary monitors while gaming on the main one.

Although one word of caution - I've experienced issues while recording / streaming on a computer with multiple displays of varying refresh / resolution being handled, though I've heard others claim this has been no issue for them. 

An awful lot of work and hassle for no tangible performance gain in most cases. I stand by my statement, the 1080 Ti's encoder can absolutely handle OBS considering games don't even touch it....

[ninbura]

Just now, 5x5 said:

An awful lot of work and hassle for no tangible performance gain in most cases. I stand by my statement, the 1080 Ti's encoder can absolutely handle OBS considering games don't even touch it....

You're right, games don't touch the encoder, but everything shares the same VRAM, and OBS / other recording programs dip into 3D rendering just like games.

I have a similar setup, that being multiple high resolution displays with recording programs / other miscellaneous programs running while gaming. I found that after I rendered OBS and my RME virtualized mixer (TotalMix) on a secondary display running on a secondary GPU I was able to net a 10-15% performance increase in games that were fully saturating my main GPU.

I would hardly call this "intangible".

[5x5]

1 minute ago, TheAgnda said:

You're right, games don't touch the encoder, but everything shares the same VRAM, and OBS / other recording programs dip into 3D rendering just like games.

I have a similar setup, that being multiple high resolution displays with recording programs / other miscellaneous programs running while gaming. I found that after I rendered OBS and my RME virtualized mixer (TotalMix) on a secondary display running on a secondary GPU I was able to net a 10-15% performance increase in games that were fully saturating my main GPU.

I would hardly call this "intangible".

Well interesting - cause on my end, the performance delta was 3% at most. Definitely not worth the hassle. The OP also has 11GB of VRAM - a secondary display only uses about 200-300Mb in most instances. He could run 10 displays and still have over 8GB of VRAM allocated to his game.

[Mick Naughty]

Isn’t any hassle as the card is already there and all the monitors are plugged in already. It’s the exact same. I still use the igpu, even when there are several cards in the rig. Not everyone’s case is the same. 

[ninbura]

2 minutes ago, 5x5 said:

Well interesting - cause on my end, the performance delta was 3% at most. Definitely not worth the hassle. The OP also has 11GB of VRAM - a secondary display only uses about 200-300Mb in most instances. He could run 10 displays and still have over 8GB of VRAM allocated to his game.

Yeah I was using a GTX 1080, so I only had 8gb to work with, and I encode around 9K60 (3 separate output files) which was using around 1.8gb of VRAM (not including other programs / displays) after all is said and done.

My main gains were by offloading my mixer and the OBS preview to another display / GPU entirely, was using around 10% of my GPUs direct rendering.

Results will probably be less severe for OP, but if he already has the GPU and intends to get the most out of his configuration it's justifiable IMO, considering my past experiences.

[5x5]

11 minutes ago, TheAgnda said:

Yeah I was using a GTX 1080, so I only had 8gb to work with, and I encode around 9K60 (3 separate output files) which was using around 1.8gb of VRAM (not including other programs / displays) after all is said and done.

My main gains were by offloading my mixer and the OBS preview to another display / GPU entirely, was using around 10% of my GPUs direct rendering.

Results will probably be less severe for OP, but if he already has the GPU and intends to get the most out of his configuration it's justifiable IMO, considering my past experiences.

Well, in all fairness, Mixer is a lot more demanding than other streaming platforms in terms of bandwidth and the compression applied is minimal

[ninbura]

17 minutes ago, 5x5 said:

Well, in all fairness, Mixer is a lot more demanding than other streaming platforms in terms of bandwidth and the compression applied is minimal

I wasn't referring to Mixer the streaming platform I was referring to the software audio mixer that pairs to my RME audio interface:
https://www.rme-usa.com/totalmix-fx.html

Apologies for the confusion, I typically record locally, not as much streaming.

[5x5]

1 minute ago, TheAgnda said:

I wasn't referring to Mixer the streaming platform I was referring to the software audio mixer that pairs to my RME audio interface:
https://www.rme-usa.com/totalmix-fx.html

Apologies for the confusion, I typically record locally, not as much streaming.

No problem - yeah, that's also more demanding than OBS