2 gpus not in sli

[Flowroro]

hey guys, i have an old gtx 680 lying around, so i was wondering if i could hook up my gtx 680 and 1060 at the same time connected to the same monitor using 2 cables, and have one gpu run one program separately? is that a thing? so for example ill have a 1060 for gaming and then 680 for rendering or something of the sort simultaneously? good or stupid idea?

[Daniel Z.]

I think that is possible. You can select which GPU you want in most rendering programs or whatever that I have used.

[r2724r16]

You can do that.

[Totalschaden1997]

You don't even need the 2nd cable to do compute on a secondary card. There's usually a setting in the specific software where you can select the specific card(s) to be used for rendering, GPUacc., etc.

[Theguywhobea]

You can have two GPU's, you cant split up one task to run on both GPU's unless you're using SLI/Crossfire. You could however have one card running a game, and other doing some BOINC tasks or mining or something.

[panther420]

Just now, Rasbir Singh said:

No you can't do that. For SLI, you need the same two gpus.

He specifically said not SLI.

[Flowroro]

2 hours ago, Totalschaden1997 said:

You don't even need the 2nd cable to do compute on a secondary card. There's usually a setting in the specific software where you can select the specific card(s) to be used for rendering, GPUacc., etc.

what if i ran two games at once, but one on each gpu? would i need 2 cables or is one perfectly fine? 1 to the main gpu and 1 with nothing?

 

may sound strange but what if i wanted to switch up the gpu's when playing games, for x game i want to use the 1060 and then the 680 for other tasks because the game is more intensive, then switch to using the 680 for y game and using the 1060 for other tasks? if possible what kind of cable setups would i need? thanks for all the replies

[Totalschaden1997]

2 hours ago, Flowroro said:

what if i ran two games at once, but one on each gpu? would i need 2 cables or is one perfectly fine? 1 to the main gpu and 1 with nothing?

Then you'd need two ofc  but why would you want to run two games in Fullscreen side by side and not just run one windowed in the background?

 

1 hour ago, Flowroro said:

may sound strange but what if i wanted to switch up the gpu's when playing games, for x game i want to use the 1060 and then the 680 for other tasks because the game is more intensive, then switch to using the 680 for y game and using the 1060 for other tasks? if possible what kind of cable setups would i need? thanks for all the replies

One cable per card