2 GPU's in 1 system

[TheMajesticRice]

I have a RX 570 4GB, and plan on buying a RX 5500 XT or something a bit more beefy soon.
My question is, can I use both of these in the same system? Possibly using the 4gb card to record in OBS or something along those lines?
 

[Constantin]

1 minute ago, TheMajesticRice said:

I have a RX 570 4GB, and plan on buying a RX 5500 XT or something a bit more beefy soon.
My question is, can I use both of these in the same system? Possibly using the 4gb card to record in OBS or something along those lines?
 

Well i guess you can, but the dual GPU is kinda dead...

[Mira Yurizaki]

2 minutes ago, TheMajesticRice said:

My question is, can I use both of these in the same system? Possibly using the 4gb card to record in OBS or something along those lines?

You can, but you could use a cheaper card to encode video on the fly if you don't want to upgrade your CPU.

[Windows7ge]

I don't know anything about OBS but you can very much use more than 1 GPU in a system. I use my extras to drive virtual machines.

[ImNewt]

Look into AMD Crossfire. I would for you if I had enough spare time, but I am quite busy at the moment. But yeah, I think that should work.

https://www.amd.com/en/technologies/crossfire

[RadiatingLight]

2 minutes ago, ImNewt said:

Look into AMD Crossfire. I would for you if I had enough spare time, but I am quite busy at the moment. But yeah, I think that should work.

https://www.amd.com/en/technologies/crossfire

Only works with the same model of GPU.

 

The only use for the weaker GPU is encoding video, or you could use it for folding@home

[ImNewt]

Just now, RadiatingLight said:

Only works with the same model of GPU.

 

The only use for the weaker GPU is encoding video, or you could use it for folding@home

Ah woops, sorry about that. I'm not too clued up on Crossfire.

[Princess Luna]

1 minute ago, ImNewt said:

Look into AMD Crossfire.

No, Crossfire has already been phased out and is by all means a dead technology that more often will rather hurt performance.

 

7 minutes ago, TheMajesticRice said:

RX 5500 XT

awful value card, it's barely faster than your RX 570 and due to AMD's decision to limit it to 8x pci-e it means that without pci-e 4.0 which is only available with x570 chipset the card gets bottlenecked.

8 minutes ago, TheMajesticRice said:

Possibly using the 4gb card to record in OBS or something along those lines?

If you want to stream or record using OBS, get a nVidia Turing based card (1650 Super, 1660, 1660 Super, 1660 Ti, 2060 and so on) for it's NVENC capacity.

[TheMajesticRice]

12 minutes ago, Princess Luna said:

awful value card, it's barely faster than your RX 570 and due to AMD's decision to limit it to 8x pci-e it means that without pci-e 4.0 which is only available with x570 chipset the card gets bottlenecked.

How is it barely faster than my 570? Cheapest 8gb 5500 XT aside from the msi armor mk2 has 500MHz up on the core/boost clock. It also appears the cards are on 16x, not 8x. I could be wrong though, kinda why im here lol

EDIT: You were right about the 8x wiring. I had been looking into upgrading my mobo aswell, might be a good time then. Does the x570 chipset make up for the 8x wiring?

12 minutes ago, Princess Luna said:

If you want to stream or record using OBS, get a nVidia Turing based card (1650 Super, 1660, 1660 Super, 1660 Ti, 2060 and so on) for it's NVENC capacity.

I already have the rx 570, I dont plan on buying a nvidia card along with the 5500 xt. kinda defeats the purpose of this post if i did that.

[Princess Luna]

2 minutes ago, TheMajesticRice said:

How is it barely faster than my 570? Cheapest 8gb 5500 XT aside from the msi armor mk2 has 500MHz up on the core/boost clock. It also appears the cards are on 16x, not 8x. I could be wrong though, kinda why im here lol

Both the videos below will solve your questions:

 

3 minutes ago, TheMajesticRice said:

I already have the rx 570, I dont plan on buying a nvidia card along with the 5500 xt. kinda defeats the purpose of this post if i did that.

No the idea is save up and upgrade from the RX570 so something like a GTX 1660 Ti or a RTX 2060 / RTX 2060 Super so you do see a boost in performance and since they have dedicated hardware known as NVENC that's far superior to any AMD solution you can record anything you want using OBS or the built in ShadowPlay without impacting your gaming.

 

A single more powerful nVidia card will do both tasks.

[KaitouX]

3 minutes ago, TheMajesticRice said:

How is it barely faster than my 570? Cheapest 8gb 5500 XT aside from the msi armor mk2 has 500MHz up on the core/boost clock. It also appears the cards are on 16x, not 8x. I could be wrong though, kinda why im here lol

8gb 5500XT is horrible for the price, as you can get the much faster 1660 Super for only ~20 dollars more, and the 5500XT is only ~20% faster than the 570. Also clocks don't mean anything when comparing different GPU architectures(at least as a consumer).

[TheMajesticRice]

4 minutes ago, KaitouX said:

8gb 5500XT is horrible for the price, as you can get the much faster 1660 Super for only ~20 dollars more, and the 5500XT is only ~20% faster than the 570. Also clocks don't mean anything when comparing different GPU architectures(at least as a consumer).

I am finding this out sadly lol I'm looking for an 8gb card though, so the 2060 super might be what I get, possibly look into the 5700 aswell.