- Joined
- Jun 2, 2012
- Messages
- 35
- Motherboard
- Asus Maximus XI Extreme
- CPU
- i9-9900KS
- Graphics
- Radeon VII
- Mac
- Classic Mac
- Mobile Phone
Recently I have wanted more monitors for productivity purposes so I decided on 6 monitors for my setup. To drive these additional displays, I bought a cheap Gigabyte 1060 6GB card and used my EVGA 780 as secondary for 2 of them.
1060 = 4 displays
780 = 2 displays
Mission Control and other misc. UI elements are perfectly smooth when I only have monitors plugged into my 1060. But as soon as I even have 1 monitor plugged into my 780 alongside my 1060, it causes some pretty severe performance issues; lag, stuttering, delays, etc. Eg. having a single monitor plugged into each (so 2 in total) still causes the lag, even when 4x monitors on either card individually does not cause lag. Lag is also caused when moving windows between monitors across two GPUs.
Really it just comes down to having monitors plugged into both cards is causing lag, but each individual card performs fine. I have the latest Nvidia Web Drivers installed for both Sierra 10.12.6 and High Sierra 10.13, and I experience the lag in both.
I have been unable to find anything on the web detailing this dual-GPU lag, as I imagine it's fairly edge-case. I was holding out that High Sierra would fix this issue, but from what I can tell it has not. I'm also considering switching to Vega for native support, but not entirely sure that would resolve it. Last resort would be to cut down to 4x monitors, buy Vega64 and buy some higher-res monitors to replace the old ones so I at least have similar working area that I did with 6 monitors.
Any ideas?
Thanks!
1060 = 4 displays
780 = 2 displays
Mission Control and other misc. UI elements are perfectly smooth when I only have monitors plugged into my 1060. But as soon as I even have 1 monitor plugged into my 780 alongside my 1060, it causes some pretty severe performance issues; lag, stuttering, delays, etc. Eg. having a single monitor plugged into each (so 2 in total) still causes the lag, even when 4x monitors on either card individually does not cause lag. Lag is also caused when moving windows between monitors across two GPUs.
Really it just comes down to having monitors plugged into both cards is causing lag, but each individual card performs fine. I have the latest Nvidia Web Drivers installed for both Sierra 10.12.6 and High Sierra 10.13, and I experience the lag in both.
I have been unable to find anything on the web detailing this dual-GPU lag, as I imagine it's fairly edge-case. I was holding out that High Sierra would fix this issue, but from what I can tell it has not. I'm also considering switching to Vega for native support, but not entirely sure that would resolve it. Last resort would be to cut down to 4x monitors, buy Vega64 and buy some higher-res monitors to replace the old ones so I at least have similar working area that I did with 6 monitors.
Any ideas?
Thanks!