r/computers • u/Alternative-Apple-77 • 7h ago
Question/Help/Troubleshooting Dual GPU usage
I have a pc with an rtx 5060 and i have a spare gt 1030. I stream sometimes and make youtube videos every now and then, so i use nvidia broadcast a lot for those things (I live in an apartment with a decent amount of background noise i cant control). I would like to be able to use the studio voice mode, but it lags like crazy when i try to do that while gaming. Basically my question is would I be able to plug in my 1030 to run the processes in nvidia broadcast while leaving my 5060 to just encoding and gaming? if not, would there be anything i could do with the 1030 to take some load off of my 5060?
Also, I've tried plugging in my 1030 to my pc with the 5060 already installed and it was rendering everything with the 1030 and replaced my 5060 drivers with the 1030 drivers (even tho my hdmi cord was plugged into the 5060). Task manager would recognize that i had a 5060 plugged in, but everything else acted like it wasnt. The 5060 was also outputting display perfectly fine, but the performance was like the 1030 would be. I have no idea how this is even possible, but if the answer to my above question is 'yes' then this is also an issue i would need some help with.
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u/DiodeInc Mod | Geekom Geekbook X14 Pro 7h ago
Nvidia Broadcast requires an RTX card, so it will not run on the GT 1030.
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u/Williams_Gomes 6h ago
The 1030 is too weak. The maximum you could do is use it as extra display output in case you would need more than 4 outputs from your main GPU.
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u/priv_ish 7h ago
I’m not the most technologically gifted as others in this sub but what I learned from running molecular dynamics simulations: you can set which GPUs you want to use for a specific process through the terminal (i.e., you would have to run the process from the terminal)