I wanna use 2 grafics cards need help please

[Panda966]

Hey I would like help using 2 grafics cards the first grafics card is a 2080 ti and the second is a 3060 ti and I wanna use both of them at the same time I have 2 monitors 

[igormp]

What do you want to use them for?

 

If it's for games, then you can't.

[Mr Technician]

This seems pointless you me. You would be better off using one and connecting both monitors to it. Off the top of my head I believe the 2080 ti is more powerful than the 3060 ti (one generation older but two tiers higher).

[dizmo]

It doesn't really work like that.

[matt0725]

respectfully, based on your other posts, you dont have enough experience to start messing around with your system. Enjoy it in the state it is in. Running both monitors on one gpu does not impact gaming performance unless you are gaming or doing something graphically intense on the 2nd monitor. if you are just on youtube or on the desktop, your games will play exactly the same

[Birblover12]

I don't think you'll get much benefit from running one GPU per monitor. Many GPUs have many ports on them because they're designed to be able to handle multiple displays on a single card. Also, if you're trying to play games, then I'm pretty sure that won't even work properly (games will only use 1x gpu at a time).

 

Just use your 2080 Ti and run both monitors on it, and keep the 3060 Ti in a box for troubleshooting purposes or something. 

[SorryBella]

4 hours ago, Mr Technician said:

This seems pointless you me. You would be better off using one and connecting both monitors to it. Off the top of my head I believe the 2080 ti is more powerful than the 3060 ti (one generation older but two tiers higher).

Or OP can sell both. Both cards wont survive the 12GB requirement of modern titles at 1440p but both cards still hold value at $250-350. At the upper end, OP could buy a 7900XT for 100$ extra or see what 7800XT bring (there's also 4070Ti at the wing if OP needs nvidia features rather than wanting it)

[WallacEngineering]

@Panda966

 

In agreement with @SorryClaire

 

Your best option here is to sell both cards in order to move to current gen.

 

SLI is completely dead, so you CANNOT hook the processing power of 2 graphics cards together anymore, and there is a reason for that...

 

Studies were done and shown that modern GPUs process so much data so quickly that the SLI connection CANNOT keep up. With each card waiting for the other to complete a frame, you end up with pretty bad frame times and micro studders which add up to an overall WORSE experience than just going with a single card.

 

Multi-GPU was great up until the early 2000's because hardware was slow enough to actually benefit from SLI. Nowdays, the opposite is reality.

 

The AMD RX 7900-XT is one hell of a card. Trust me, I have the XTX (see signature) and the XT isn't too far off.

 

In my opinion its a better option than the RTX 4070-Ti because its actually a hair faster overall, has 20GB of VRAM VS 12GB, all while costing a bit less.

 

you see, the RTX 4070-Ti and RX 7900-XT are both 1440p Ultra + Huge Frame Rate cards with some ability to play at 4K resolution (although they aren't quite enough to be considered TRUE 4K cards). 4K can eat up to 16GB of VRAM depending on the game and settings, and so while the non-Ti 4070 might have just enough VRAM for its capabilities, the Ti certainly DOES NOT.

 

But if you don't want to add in a bit of budget after selling the cards, then you could go for the non-Ti 4070. Its a pretty decent card overall, we all just wish modern GPUs costed less in general but with the transistor node shrinking to incomprehensible scale, the trend from now on WILL ALWAYS be that prices go up each generation, so buy now, and don't look back.