Using multiple graphics cards NOT in SLI

[STEEZUSxCHRIST]

Just wondering if this is possible and what would be the benefit/need? Building a computer meant strictly for editing for a friend and read something about using one to drive the monitor and the other to do the processing. Is that really the only benefit, or would they still work together somehow? Is it something I need to configure? Sorry, having a ton of trouble finding any info on this, all my searches bring up SLI, which I am not interested in. Thanks.

[AkiraDaarkst]

1 minute ago, STEEZUSxCHRIST said:

Just wondering if this is possible and what would be the benefit/need? Building a computer meant strictly for editing for a friend and read something about using one to drive the monitor and the other to do the processing. Is that really the only benefit, or would they still work together somehow? Is it something I need to configure? Sorry, having a ton of trouble finding any info on this, all my searches bring up SLI, which I am not interested in. Thanks.

Without SLI connection (even with one), it would depend on the software being designed to leverage multiple GPUs.  What kind of configuration are you considering?

[STEEZUSxCHRIST]

What do you mean by configuration?

[AkiraDaarkst]

1 minute ago, STEEZUSxCHRIST said:

What do you mean by configuration?

Which GPUs are you going to use?  Also, which software do you want to run?

[STEEZUSxCHRIST]

Ah, will mostly be running photoshop, lightroom and maybe some premiere, but likely a couple 8k monitors. So far I have a p5000 quadro, but am looking to add something else if necessary, maybe like a m4000. 10-bit is essential.

[Electronics Wizardy]

No reason to have a seprate gpu for the monitor. Editing doesn't use that much gpu power and a singel 1060 or 1070 will be more than enough for almost all editors.

[STEEZUSxCHRIST]

This kid has a lot of money and wants me to build him the most high end editing PC possible. I have most of it done, including the quadro, but am just looking for ANY ways to make it even better. He's looking at buying multiple 8k 32" monitors.

[dragoon20005]

if 10 bit color is a must

 

both monitor and GPU must natively support 10 bit color

 

stick to the m4000

 

both P5000 and m4000 uses the same Quadro driver so no conflicts here

 

 

[AkiraDaarkst]

1 minute ago, STEEZUSxCHRIST said:

Ah, will mostly be running photoshop, lightroom and maybe some premiere, but likely a couple 8k monitors. So far I have a p5000 quadro, but am looking to add something else if necessary, maybe like a m4000. 10-bit is essential.

A Quadro P5000 already supports 10-bit output.  PS and LR won't leverage multiple GPUs, and Premiere doesn't make full use of the system having multiple GPUs either.  If you need a second GPU, get a second P5000.  You're already thinking about spending $10,000 on a couple of 8K monitors, another $2000 or so on a second P5000 shouldn't matter.

 

In Premiere, preview rendering is done by a single GPU, and output rendering only uses the GPU when GPU accelerated effects have been applied.  For encoding from one format to another without resolution scaling (e.g. 1080p ProRes to 1080p H.264) is a CPU task while the GPU will be used a bit if encoding to another format with resolution scaling (e.g. 4K ProRes to 1080p H.264).

[AkiraDaarkst]

1 minute ago, dragoon20005 said:

if 10 bit color is a must

 

both monitor and GPU must natively support 10 bit color

 

stick to the m4000

 

both P5000 and m4000 uses the same Quadro driver so no conflicts here

 

 

The M4000 is not capable of driving 8K resolution... if the OP or whoever actually needs such a high resolution monitor.

[STEEZUSxCHRIST]

Yeah, I know the p5000 can run 5k at each port, but would take up all of those running 2 8k monitors, if I wanted to add a 3rd (say 4k) could I just get away with running something like a m4000 for that specific monitor? Its that how it works?

[dragoon20005]

Just now, AkiraDaarkst said:

The M4000 is not capable of driving 8K resolution... if the OP or whoever actually needs such a high resolution monitor.

then he prob need to get the P6000 or GP100

[AkiraDaarkst]

5 minutes ago, STEEZUSxCHRIST said:

This kid has a lot of money and wants me to build him the most high end editing PC possible. I have most of it done, including the quadro, but am just looking for ANY ways to make it even better. He's looking at buying multiple 8k 32" monitors.

Tell him he's insane to even think about 8K monitors.  And if he really wants a high end editing PC, what you're configuring for him really isn't high end.

[dragoon20005]

Just now, STEEZUSxCHRIST said:

Yeah, I know the p5000 can run 5k at each port, but would take up all of those running 2 8k monitors, if I wanted to add a 3rd (say 4k) could I just get away with running something like a m4000 for that specific monitor? Its that how it works?

DP 1.4 can support up to 8K which the P5000 should have no issues

 

for 4K support at least you will need DP 1.2

[STEEZUSxCHRIST]

This isn't high end for photography? He doesn't do video....What could be more high end? I figured the p5000 was overkill in terms of running programs.

[AkiraDaarkst]

1 minute ago, STEEZUSxCHRIST said:

Yeah, I know the p5000 can run 5k at each port, but would take up all of those running 2 8k monitors, if I wanted to add a 3rd (say 4k) could I just get away with running something like a m4000 for that specific monitor? Its that how it works?

You said money isn't a problem for him, right?  Tell him a very high end editing workstation is going to be a Quad Xeon CPU system each with 22 or so cores each, with 512GB of memory, multiple 4TB SSDs in RAID and 4x Quadro GP100s.

Just now, dragoon20005 said:

then he prob need to get the P6000 or GP100

 

[AkiraDaarkst]

Just now, STEEZUSxCHRIST said:

This isn't high end for photography? He doesn't do video....What could be more high end? I figured the p5000 was overkill in terms of running programs.

If he doesn't work with any video editing, he doesn't need such power.  And he doesn't need multiple 8K monitors.

[STEEZUSxCHRIST]

But that's for video editing, right? This guy is just a photographer.

[STEEZUSxCHRIST]

Of course he doesn't NEED them, but he's rich and he wants them Lol

[STEEZUSxCHRIST]

Must be nice

[AkiraDaarkst]

1 minute ago, dragoon20005 said:

DP 1.4 can support up to 8K which the P5000 should have no issues

 

for 4K support at least you will need DP 1.2

Either the OP is trolling or the "kid with the money" he mentions is a complete idiot and I say let's help the OP rip that kid off.  Some people only learn after they get burned.

[AkiraDaarkst]

1 minute ago, STEEZUSxCHRIST said:

But that's for video editing, right? This guy is just a photographer.

Is he a professional photographer that has magazines like Vogue, Cosmo, ELLE for clients and he uses a $25,000 medium format digital camera?

 

If it's just for photography, get him a M4000 or P4000 Quadro and a nice Dell Premiere Color 4K monitor like a UP3216Q or an Eizo CG248-4K.  This is more than enough for most professional photographers.

 

[STEEZUSxCHRIST]

I'm not trolling at all. Just built him a watercooled machine with a binned 7700k OC'ed to 5.2ghz, 2tb raid 0 nvme, p5000, 8tb ssd, top end mobo, etc, etc (originally we had 2 1080ti's in SLI, but I realized they wouldn't do 10 bit at the last second....I added extra charges for all the parts. I'm not really looking to rip him off, but at the same time, I'm looking to add more parts to add to my profit, as everything I've been putting in has been marked up.

[STEEZUSxCHRIST]

He wants the dell UP3218K

I told him to go Eizo.

He is using Medium Format, though.

[STEEZUSxCHRIST]

Pretty sure he owns his own successful company (what, I don't know) and this is all a huge writeoff for him.