Havind 2 GPUs for the viewport and rendering

[hadi_mohammadi]

Hey guys, I have a GTX 1080 and I want to buy an RTX3060. I'm wondering if I can dedicate the 3060 to 3dsmax for the viewport and rendering with GPU and vantage, and use the 1080 for handling other stuff such as playing videos, watching youtube, and everything else to prevent lagging while I'm rendering with the GPU. This is important for me to use the RTX for both 3ds max viewport and rendering, I don't want to handle the viewport with the 1080 since it's not as powerful as the other one. Any suggestion and advice will be appreciated. Thank you.

[Muhammed_Hamed]

I'm wondering if I can dedicate the 3060 to 3dsmax for the viewport and rendering with GPU and vantage, and use the 1080 for handling other stuff such as playing videos, watching youtube, and everything else to prevent lagging while I'm rendering with the GPU

Hey hadi_mohammadi and welcome to the forums!

Yes, this is possible. In Nvidia's control panel, change OpenGL Rendering GPU to your 1080 .. by default it will be set to Auto, which is not great
This OpenGL card will be used for everything like viewport performance, gaming..etc and your 3060 is going to be used for rendering/Vantage

In my case I have 2x 3090s,



Having a separate card for viewport and displays is helpful, Windows and Max take a chunk of VRAM on this card, so your other GPU is going to be reserved for GPU rendering or Vantage and you get more available VRAM this way

Best,
Muhammed