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[FurryPlays]

This is gonna sound like a dumb question, but here goes:

I just got a brand new RX6600, works great, but it does not like my multi-monitor set up. I have 4 monitors and I had to unplug 2 just so it wouldn’t have a stroke. Now my old GPU, a RX570, can run all 4 monitors without causing problems.

I want to know if I can plug both GPUs into my motherboard, and instead of combining them with Crossfire to work on the same workload, have the 6600 be on just the main monitor while the 570 works on the other 3.

I don’t know if that’s even possible with either because it’s 2 different cards or because the 6600 doesn’t have crossfire but the 570 does. If it doesn’t work, that’s fine, but if it does, then I would like to know how to make it work.

[Eigenvektor]

If your board has enough PCIe slots for both GPUs, you should be able to use both for additional monitors.

 

They won't be working together on anything. Crossfire doesn't work across generations. And, as you said, the RX 6600 doesn't support it at all. Plus pretty much no modern game supports multi-GPU to begin with.

 

You might run into issues with drivers once support for the RX 570 is dropped. That could prevent you from updating drivers even if a newer driver for the RX 6600 is available, because it would no longer support the old card.

[FurryPlays]

11 minutes ago, Eigenvektor said:

If your board has enough PCIe slots for both GPUs, you should be able to use both for additional monitors.

 

They won't be working together on anything. Crossfire doesn't work across generations. And, as you said, the RX 6600 doesn't support it at all. Plus pretty much no modern game supports multi-GPU to begin with.

 

You might run into issues with drivers once support for the RX 570 is dropped. That could prevent you from updating drivers even if a newer driver for the RX 6600 is available, because it would no longer support the old card.

That’s great. On the driver support though, if I update the driver for let’s say the 570, will my pc detect which card it’s suppose to go to and update it automatically or am I gonna have to manually choose which card the update goes to so that way I don’t accidentally put the wrong update on the wrong card

[Eigenvektor]

1 hour ago, FurryPlays said:

That’s great. On the driver support though, if I update the driver for let’s say the 570, will my pc detect which card it’s suppose to go to and update it automatically or am I gonna have to manually choose which card the update goes to so that way I don’t accidentally put the wrong update on the wrong card

You don't install drivers on a graphics card. You install the driver in Windows, so it can talk to your card(s). You can only have one copy of the driver installed.

 

The most current version of the AMD driver (Adrenalin 22.11.1) supports both the RX 570 and RX 6600. As long as future updates of the driver support both cards, you're fine. If a future update drops support for the RX 570, it would fall back to some generic Windows driver and might no longer support higher resolutions etc. So you'd have to stay on the last driver that supports both.

[FurryPlays]

4 minutes ago, Eigenvektor said:

You don't install drivers on a graphics card. You install the driver in Windows, so it can talk to your card(s). You can only have one copy of the driver installed.

 

The most current version of the AMD driver (Adrenalin 22.11.1) supports both the RX 570 and RX 6600. As long as future updates of the driver support both cards, you're fine. If a future update drops support for the RX 570, it would fall back to some generic Windows driver and might no longer support higher resolutions etc. So you'd have to stay on the last driver that supports both.

Alright, that should work fine then. But right now I need to get better hardware in order to run both cards cause I only have a 500w power supply and I know that is not gonna be enough. That and I need faster ram sticks. But thank you for informing me that my dumb idea is actually possible.