Multi-GPU`s ?

[kuksy]

Hello!

Greetings from Romania

I am new to the forum.

My rig is:

CPU:I5 4690K

Cooler:Stock

Motherboard:Asus Z87-A

RAM:12 GB Hyperx 1867 Mhz DDR3

SSD:2X Kingston UV400 120 GB Raid 0

HDD:HGST 7K6000 2 TB 7200 RPM 128 Mb Buffer

GPU:Gygabyte GTX 1060 G1 Gaming 3GB + Gainward GTX 560

CASE:Zalman Z3

PSU:Cooler Master GX 750W

 

I know i am way behind the curve regarding PC Gaming.

My questions are the following:

Am i bottlenecking my GPU`s?Should i stick with only 1 GPU or should dedicate one to PhysX?Are my GPU`s running at PCIE - X16 speeds or both at X8?

I know these maybe  stupid questions but i haven`t found answers anywhere.

I am quite a noob regarding these things...so any help would be gladly appreciated.

 

PS:sorry for the bad english

 

 

[Guest]

How do you even run these gpus in sli?

[Shreyas1]

I think Linus did a video on physx cards

[kuksy]

[kuksy]

I am running them in JBOG (Just a Bunch Of GPU`s) 

[TheGlenlivet]

I'd be willing to bet that if you removed the 560 you wouldn't see a reduction in performance.  

[MYX]

4 minutes ago, kuksy said:

This may take a while, but I think the best way to see if youre getting any extra preformance is to benchmark them with and without the 580, Games and tests like cinibench (GPU) should work well

[kuksy]

10 minutes ago, MaxCraft said:

This may take a while, but I think the best way to see if youre getting any extra preformance is to benchmark them with and without the 580, Games and tests like cinibench (GPU) should work well

I will test them and see with what we end up with 

[Frankenburger]

The 560 won't interact with the 1060. Removing the 560 won't cause any reduction in gaming performance. Though if you use programs that utilize Cuda or GPGPU acceleration, removing the 560 might cause a reduction in performance if the program can even utilize multiple GPGPUs.

[Princess Luna]

20 minutes ago, Almostbauws said:

How do you even run these gpus in sli?

You do not, SLI is make 2 identical processing chips say like GTX 1070 + GTX 1070 and have them act as one individual card.

 

What he did here is as the title suggest simple Multi GPU, it has its uses but for gaming not really, the best thing he could try here is PhysX which is a waste of time:

 

[DildorTheDecent]

Just ditch the 560.

 

It's not going to help gaming perf or help benchmarks/games. Waste of power.

[dfsdfgfkjsefoiqzemnd]

Your GPUs would both be running PCIe 3.0 x8.  But that's not a problem.  Modern graphics cards still can't even saturate PCIe 2.0 x8, so I wouldn't be too worried about running a 1060 in 3.0 x8.

 

That being said, the 560 is useless.  It isn't even strong enough to act as a PhysX card for the 1060.  Just sell it or keep it as a spare card in case your 1060 dies.