Advantages?

[P0ck3ts]

Is it worth it to have multiple video cards that are not SLI in your system?

 

What are the dis/advantages (besides cost) of multiple video cards?

 

 

Edit: 

EVGA GeForce RTX 3090 24 GB FTW3 ULTRA GAMING Video Card

[Quackers101]

SLI is ded, ripperu.

no more than two.

one left, not much reason for having more.

so I left the second one at the door.

[ProjectBox153]

If you need them for specific tasks then there's no real problem with having multiple GPUs in your system, but if you don't have a real need for one then you'll just be adding more heat, using more power and spending more money. 

[Coolmaster]

You could use them as a display adapter. So if you're out of ports on your main GPU, you can throw something like a 710 in your system and be able to connect more displays.

 

Some productivity workloads can use multiple GPUs, this is pretty niche and if you don't know if you can use them then you probably can't.

[FakeFBI]

Just now, linuxfur said:

SLI and Crossfire are absolutely dead and games usually do not support utilizing multiple GPUs, or are really buggy and not worth the effort. Just adds more unnecessary power usage.

 

If you do computational tasks like BOINC or Folding@Home, then yes they can be very useful. Otherwise, don't even bother.

I did hear about a recent NVIDIA project that can utilize multiple GPUs for something but I can't find it anymore.

and two 3090s is literally 1000w LMAO

[Quackers101]

Just wait, going for wifi 6, 4K 144hz where two systems are rendering each half combined into the queue of G-sync for all those frames.

wait that is not possible, *nukes everything*

[P0ck3ts]

Thanks everyone.

 

So chances are that the one GPU will be good enough for a couple different displays running a game and a couple other processes in the background, then?

[ProjectBox153]

33 minutes ago, P0ck3ts said:

Thanks everyone.

 

So chances are that the one GPU will be good enough for a couple different displays running a game and a couple other processes in the background, then?

Yes. Unless you're doing something specific that needs multiple GPUs you'll be fine with one. 

[P0ck3ts]

On 12/30/2020 at 3:43 PM, ProjectBox153 said:

Yes. Unless you're doing something specific that needs multiple GPUs you'll be fine with one. 

What is the difference in reference to my CPU? (Ryzen 5950x) Would it bog down my CPU with extra information? Multiple monitors at 4k?

 

Thank you for taking time to respond