Can I use my 3060 and my 1060 at the same time?

[Muhhsun]

I have a three-monitor setup and it would be nice if two of my monitors weren't making my GPU work even more while playing games. I have my old 1060 in a box just wondering if I can put it to work.

Full Setup: 

CPU: Ryzen 7 5800X3D

Motherboard: B45O (something... something... something... sorry not at my PC atm)

Ram: 25GB 3200

Power Unit: 850 Gold ( something like that)

GPU: MSI 3060 

 

[manikyath]

24 minutes ago, Muhhsun said:

two of my monitors weren't making my GPU work even more while playing games

the impact here is essentially zero. dont bother.

[thekingofmonks]

Yes and no:

 

SLI was a technology pushed by Nvidia that allows multiple GPUs to work simultaneously on one display (AMD's was called Crossfire or mGPU).

Officially, Nvidia doesn't allow SLI between different GPUs, let alone these two you have that are 2 generations apart.

SLI unfortunately died out as game devs got lazy and stopped working on it.

 

Some games (very few, Ashes of the Singularity for example) do however come with what's called Explicit Multi-Adapter which allows architecturally different GPUs to do the same thing as SLI.

So if you ever slot in both your 3060 and your 1060, you should be able to have it run with EMA.

 

The big drawback would be that it performs poorly as the better 3060 would have to tune down its render speed to match the 1060.

 

Other con is that it's only a thing in very few select games.

 

So yes, it's technically possible. I do not recommend it, though.

[Gefen gamer]

sli is not avilbole on the 3060

[SorryBella]

2 hours ago, Gefen gamer said:

sli is not avilbole on the 3060

Its doesnt even support different GPU anyway, SLI is strictly only for 2 cards with the same GPU chip. Back then its even worse, you even have to match both VBIOS and also the board revision.

[FlyingChar]

Your PC and your nv driver can read both of your two cards properly.And you can connect to multiple monitors in expand or copy mode.But they couldn’t run in one game because it can’t meet the requirements of NVLINK.Here is an example of the two different cards in your PC.

[dilpickle]

On 5/20/2023 at 6:28 AM, thekingofmonks said:

Yes and no:

 

SLI was a technology pushed by Nvidia that allows multiple GPUs to work simultaneously on one display (AMD's was called Crossfire or mGPU).

Officially, Nvidia doesn't allow SLI between different GPUs, let alone these two you have that are 2 generations apart.

SLI unfortunately died out as game devs got lazy and stopped working on it.

 

Some games (very few, Ashes of the Singularity for example) do however come with what's called Explicit Multi-Adapter which allows architecturally different GPUs to do the same thing as SLI.

So if you ever slot in both your 3060 and your 1060, you should be able to have it run with EMA.

 

The big drawback would be that it performs poorly as the better 3060 would have to tune down its render speed to match the 1060.

 

Other con is that it's only a thing in very few select games.

 

So yes, it's technically possible. I do not recommend it, though.

 

On 5/20/2023 at 6:31 AM, Gefen gamer said:

sli is not avilbole on the 3060

 

On 5/20/2023 at 8:45 AM, SorryClaire said:

Its doesnt even support different GPU anyway, SLI is strictly only for 2 cards with the same GPU chip. Back then its even worse, you even have to match both VBIOS and also the board revision.

 

11 hours ago, FlyingChar said:

Your PC and your nv driver can read both of your two cards properly.And you can connect to multiple monitors in expand or copy mode.But they couldn’t run in one game because it can’t meet the requirements of NVLINK.Here is an example of the two different cards in your PC.

 

This is what happens when you don't read the OP's post. He wasn't asking about SLI.

 

He wants to use a second graphics card to run his extra monitors while gaming. And as manikyath said this is completely unnecessary.

[SorryBella]

11 minutes ago, dilpickle said:

He wasn't asking about SLI

Neither am i? I was addressing the misconception that SLI can be used on any card.

[thekingofmonks]

19 hours ago, dilpickle said:

 

 

 

 

This is what happens when you don't read the OP's post. He wasn't asking about SLI.

 

He wants to use a second graphics card to run his extra monitors while gaming. And as manikyath said this is completely unnecessary.

Huh, that's odd, because OP literally gave my post a like.

[xFluing]

On 5/20/2023 at 2:28 PM, thekingofmonks said:

Yes and no:

 

SLI was a technology pushed by Nvidia that allows multiple GPUs to work simultaneously on one display (AMD's was called Crossfire or mGPU).

Officially, Nvidia doesn't allow SLI between different GPUs, let alone these two you have that are 2 generations apart.

SLI unfortunately died out as game devs got lazy and stopped working on it.

 

Some games (very few, Ashes of the Singularity for example) do however come with what's called Explicit Multi-Adapter which allows architecturally different GPUs to do the same thing as SLI.

So if you ever slot in both your 3060 and your 1060, you should be able to have it run with EMA.

 

The big drawback would be that it performs poorly as the better 3060 would have to tune down its render speed to match the 1060.

 

Other con is that it's only a thing in very few select games.

 

So yes, it's technically possible. I do not recommend it, though.

"Pushed by nvidia"

 

Bro has never heard of 3dfx

[thekingofmonks]

9 minutes ago, xFluing said:

"Pushed by nvidia"

 

Bro has never heard of 3dfx

Certainly have, although I'm a late gen-z.

 

But it wasn't quite the same "SLI" - 3Dfx's SLI was Scan-Line Interleave, while Nvidia's is Scalable Link Interface

[xFluing]

20 hours ago, thekingofmonks said:

Certainly have, although I'm a late gen-z.

 

But it wasn't quite the same "SLI" - 3Dfx's SLI was Scan-Line Interleave, while Nvidia's is Scalable Link Interface

It's the same thing just backronymed to match nvidia's marketing

[V3CTORIZ3R]

On 5/20/2023 at 1:31 PM, Gefen gamer said:

sli is not avilbole on the 3060

...Neither is it on the GTX 1060 either (By default) // GTX 1060's (no matter what version) are the only ones that do not support SLI from the get-go.  

FYI - Even if you had 2 x GTX 1060's you wouldn't be able to hook them up in SLI together, it doesn't have the connectivity for it.