video card Two different video cards on the same system?

Wrex218 · February 4, 2020

I have an ASUS ROG STRIX RTX 2080 Ti Video Card installed on my new gaming machine. I also have an MSI GForce 2060 RTX card available to put into this machine.

Here are my current machine specs;

Windows 10 Pro, AMD Ryzen 9 3900X, ASUS TUF X570-PLUS GAMING (WiFi) Motherboard,

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti [Display adapter]
ASUS VG248 [Monitor] (24.0"vis, s/n J9LMQS152790, September 2018)
ASUS VG248 [Monitor] (24.0"vis, s/n JALMQS046838, October 2018)
ASUS VG248 [Monitor] (24.0"vis, s/n HALMQS086537, October 2017)

Memory: 32GB [8GB x4 ] DDR4-3200MHz ADATA XPG SPECTRIX D41 RGB

Power Supply: 750 Watt - CORSAIR TX750M 80 PLUS Gold PSU.

I also have a new Rosewill Photon 1050 PSU available if I need it.

Processor Cooling: Asetek 690LS 360mm Liquid Cooling System.

5048.26 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
4207.75 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space

ASUS BW-16D1X-U USB Device [Optical drive]

CT2000MX500SSD1 [Hard drive] (2000.40 GB) -- drive 1, s/n 1942E224734F, rev M3CR023, SMART Status: Healthy
INTEL SSDPEKNW010T8 [Hard drive] (1024.20 GB) -- drive 2, s/n 0000_0000_0100_0000_E4D2_5CD4_6C55_5101.
Sabrent [Hard drive] (1024.20 GB) -- drive 3, s/n 6479_A728_6204_3633.
Samsung SSD 860 EVO 1TB [Hard drive] (1000.20 GB) -- drive 0, s/n S3Z8NB1KB29702P, rev RVT02B6Q, SMART Status: Healthy

I am currently running the three monitors on the 2080 card but it only has two Display port outputs and I would like to be able to run all three with display port connections to take full advantage of the full FPS capability of all the monitors.

My question is, can these two different cards run at the same time in this system? I’m not particularly interested in SLI or crossfire since either card has plenty of memory in addition to my system memory. I would just like to have the option of configuring NVIDIA surround Physx to blend the image across the three screens if I want to at some point.

Electronics Wizardy · February 4, 2020

If you have the card why not try it?

It should work fine

Mick Naughty · February 4, 2020

You want all three to be expanded on the desktop or actually use nvidia surround?

10 series and up, all the monitors need to be on the main card for actual surround.
But you can expand the desktop all you want between 1 or several cards. And when you say FPS I assume you mean hz, unless again you mean actual surround for gaming.