Graphics Card question

[Cory_plays_games]

Ok, So soon I am going to get a r9 380 from gigabyte and it says it supports 4 displays. I am planning on having 3 displays an my desk and one for my tv. What I wanted to know was does the amount of displays effect the performance. 

                                                                                                                                                                             

                                                                                                                                                                                                Thanks, Cory!

[RollinLower]

in playing games, it will heavily affect performance, since you will be increasing the resolution a lot. depending on what kind of monitors they are, maybe get a second 380 and crossfire them?

in video playback and stuff like that it should be fine. still a tiny performance hit tough but nothing noticable.

[KenLeeJL]

definitely 

[Xenift]

Well if only one screen is running the game at a time there should be no issue.

But i doubt that you want to use the 3 screens just for multimedia.

[Cory_plays_games]

in playing games, it will heavily affect performance, since you will be increasing the resolution a lot. depending on what kind of monitors they are, maybe get a second 380 and crossfire them?

in video playback and stuff like that it should be fine. still a tiny performance hit tough but nothing noticable.

Ok thanks so what i could do is just disconnect the displays in the control panel when I am gaming would that work?

[JebKerman]

I'd imagine it could almost go as far as thirding your FPS (highely game dependant) as it now has to render enough for 3 times the screen. though if you're only actually gaming on one of the 3, there should be minimal impact.

[GlassBomb]

Ok, So soon I am going to get a r9 380 from gigabyte and it says it supports 4 displays. I am planning on having 3 displays an my desk and one for my tv. What I wanted to know was does the amount of displays effect the performance.

 Thanks, Cory!

 

It will only really hinder your performance if you are using more than one monitor to game on at once. I.E. If you span the game over all three monitors. But if you are just using one to game on, and two of the monitors as additional ones, then you are fine.

[Guest]

It will only really hinder your performance if you are using more than one monitor to game on at once. I.E. If you span the game over all three monitors. But if you are just using one to game on, and two of the monitors as additional ones, then you are fine.

 

Yes, I have two monitors and the performance is unaffacted, but my graphics card does run hotter when idling.

[Numeno]

It depends on what you are doing on those other monitors.  Just display a web page isn't going to affect performance much.  The card still needs to render the frames on the other monitor while gaming.  Something like a twitch stream is obviously more extra load than a static web page.

 

You also didn't mention monitor resolution.  I think the 380 is enough for triple 1080p.  Triple 1440p I think is too much for 1 of those cards.   Not that things won't run, performance is simply lacking in my mind.

[thekeemo]

It will have I would say a 10-20% impact

You could plug the secondary monitors into your iGPU