Question Can the GTX 980 Ti handle 3 monitors (1080p, 1200p, 2K) ?

[egozi44]

So, I've still got my good old Asus GTX 980 Ti 6GB STRIX-GTX980TI-DC3OC-6GD5-GAMING DirectCU III GPU.

Till now I've used it with my AOC 24G2U/BK ('24 1ms 144hz 1080p)
And my Dell U2410 ('24 6ms 60hz 1200p)


Now I've got the AOC Q27G2S/EU ('27 1ms 165hz 2K)
And I was wondering if I could go for 3 monitor setup,
Needless to say I'm not going to use 3 monitors for gaming and mostly for multi tasking since they all got different spec anyway, and for the most part only one monitor is being used and the other two are on standby (not powered Off but not set up to show anything till I change it in the display settings each time)

I wonder if it will cause the card to overwork to the point it can't handle it , or if having two monitors using DP cables, and one using HDMI (since I only got 2 DP ports) will cause some issues.

I do plan to upgrade my card at some point, but with the current prices I would rather wait to see what the 500 series will be like.


Thx for the help o/

Edit:
Seems like my card does have 3 Display Ports, for some reason I was sure it only had 2.

 

[Lutfij]

Your GPU will run hotter when compared to a dual or singe monitor setup though your triple panel setup will work with the GPU you have at hand but you will struggle with 1440p at 144Hz. 60Hz, would be more the window you'd need to look into.

 

[egozi44]

Even if 98% of the times I use only 1 monitor?
I'm not using triple or dual setup for games, just one,

The other two monitors are powered (i.e. not turned Off) but not set to show anything till I need something for mutitasking (coding, discord chat, etc.),
By not set up to show anything, as I've stated in my former comment, I mean that the OS is set to not use them in the display settings, I change the setting on the fly when I need a 2nd monitor, but used one nearly all the time.

Afaik even if the monitor connected to the GPU, as long as it's powered Off, the GPU won't use its bandwidth on it,
Not sure if it's the case for when they're On but not set to be used in the display settings though.

From some other post I've seen here the 960 could handle the same monitor just fine (though was limited to 8 bit colors thx to 900 series not support DP1.4 which I don't care),
So I bet that mine could handle the res and hz just fine if it was set to use only one monitor,

Either way, my former dual setup used 144hz for the main monitor and it worked fine, so I don't plan to go back to 60hz after years of being used to much higher hz (and think any sane gamer will do the same unless they were really forced into a corner), though with 3 monitors I may need to turn one of them Off unless you know if keeping them On but not used achieve the same effect.

Btw does it matter to which DP slot you connect the monitor?
Like will the GPU prioritize one slot over the other which will be good for a main monitor?

 

[egozi44]

So far, using it for the uses I've said above, I will carefully say that it's seem to work fine.