Why is AMD better than NVIDIA at supporting multi-monitor setups?
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- Опубликовано: 5 апр 2023
- Today Tim and Steve get into why NVIDIA has so many issues with supporting multiple monitors compared to AMD
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Because Nvidia doesn't give us what we want. They tell us what we want.
Shut up you. When Nvidia want your opinion, they'll give it to you.
The worst was them telling a load of us our GeForce cards were for Win8 and refusing to fix their driver install or Experience, so had to fall back to WHQL within 3 years of purchase.
They also tell people you need CUDA and AI back in 2006. That's why Nvidia worth more than the combination of intel and AMD now. Back in 2006 AMD told people they need to separate the floating point from the CPU to GPU and almost bankrupted.
Right, the 1070 was and is my last card from Ngreedia for a long time I guess...switched 2 AMD in 2021 and got a huge boost for my system and its runnin very fine since then...plan 2 go with a 8800 or 8800xt for rock-solid native 1440p Ultra-Gaming in 2026, we will see
@@simon6658 Intel were bribing OEMs and had an illegal rebate scheme to stymie AMD sales.
CUDA was originally about using the GPU for doing fp calculation, so your point is a total fail.
AMD/ATI had the a multi monitor marketing campaign for a long time, before ultra wide monitors were available. A lot of work was put into “eyefinity”or whatever the branding was.
I run multi-monitor setups with up to 4 monitors using both AMD and NVidia (3060). I haven't seen greater problems with one vs the other. Yes, I've had some monitors not wake up from time to time, but not more on one brand or the other. I'm wondering about the interplay of certain monitors with the GPU.
Very encouraging to hear that you say that AMD performs just as well with Premiere, I think that solves it then for my next graphics card
It doesn’t watch the tech guy, he is a creator based channel
@@ARedditor397 you have to enable it - and configure it for premiere etc. which is default on if you have a cuda capable card. for amd you have to specifically enable hw acceleration per feature - then it runs very well. just compare on last gen Masc pros with full amd gpus.
I had to get an AVI plugin to make my files work because Im going to be using the AV1 encoder. Dont listen to these negative nancy's its not even the GPU technically.. its the encoder. NVIDIA NVENC is topdog, but AMD has caught up a lot in the past 1.5 years and there not too far behind. (Other than Export speeds)
@@ARedditor397 No offense, but that youtuber is the last guy I'll trust with AMD info. Dude just comes off as an Intel and Nvidia shill, which I don't like to say, but he does give that energy.
@@NipahAllDay Just like these creators here aren't well known "AMD fanboys" lol Dude everyone have their biases and AMD's least issues is multi monitors configs... But If you're happy with once in a while black screens and weird restarts (coz of drivers) and will blame some other part on your machine other than AMD cards, sure.. to hell with NVidia ;)
I've had the opposite experience with AMD being a pain in the butt with multiple monitors where my games get horrible frametimes and slowness while still having decently high FPS as soon as I fire up RUclips on my 2nd monitor and I've never had the same issue with NVidia. At work I swapped from a 1070 to a 6600 and ever since my main monitor won't wake up unless I turn it off and back on first, didn't happen with the NVidia GPU.
AMD GPU's definately have better drivers for multimonitors and I think the main issue is than Nvidia card will just push out the frames ASAP, not caring if the monitor can cope with it, while AMD asks the monitor for what IT would prefer.
The effects showing is that on Nvidia cards, turning on my second monitor, makes the 1st monitor go black for a couple of seconds. Regarding sound, I have speakers on both my monitors, so when turning off the monitor who's speakers that are currently active, Nvidia still tries to use the speakers of the turned off monitor, while AMD senses that the monitor is off, and jumps to the 1st monitors speakers (or headphones) which ever was the previous speaker used.
My 2nd monitor also has an issue with pixels hidden in the fram so I prefer scaling down a couple from 1920x1080 to 1824x1024 or something like that, AMD does this much smoother by useing percentage, while Nvidia only has rough stepping, albeit Nvidia allows for not linking the X & Y axis.
This is based on comparring a 980Ti against a 6600, so maybe the 980Ti is just outdated, but a friend of mine seems to have the same issues with a 2060.
Can confirm, had those problems with both a 2060 S and a 3080ti, I just assumed it was normal until I bought my 7900 xtx and never had problems again.
@@cmgm6027 just out of curiosity how is ur experience with the 7900 xtx? I'm considering getting one and was just wondering (also if u have a VR headset does it work well since I've heard AMD struggles with VR)?
@@saudqawam9835 I know I'm 10 months to late on this question, but I run VR with the an ASRock 7900xtx Taichi and I play ACC daily VR high settings at 90hz locked. And if you know anything about ACC it runs like shit in VR, so the fact that it runs this good is all you need to know. Every other game runs flawlessly btw.
I have issues with multi monitors but I partly blame the different resolution/refresh rates. But still feel like that could be fixed with optimizations. I was playing a game the other day and watching RUclips on the other monitor. RUclips dropped frames like crazy and this is on high end gear which is stupid. Enabling "media foundation" in chrome://flags seemed to have fixed the dropped frames though. Not even sure why it was an issue.
Are you using the nvidia Super Resolution to upscale web browser video? If so, the gpu doesn't like running games while upscaling and you'll have to uncheck it in nvidia settings.
I find disabling hardware acceleration in general in any apps used while gaming can help with things like this. I've had youtube tank performance in Forza Horizon 5 until narrowing it down to that setting helped.
@@noahbirdrevolution I don't use that but thanks for the suggestion. I might double check to see if somehow something like that was enabled. But I generally don't use that kinda stuff.
@@Bianks84 That didn't help and I kinda was getting annoying when I was googling and seeing that being suggested and it not working. I wish it was just that. But what worked for me was the thing I mentioned in my main comment. I seem to always get the weird obscure problems that are a lot harder to find a quick fix for.
@@JoshM7 I use Firefox so didn't have that issue but forgot to mention I have other weirdness as well for different resolution & refresh rate. Definitely made worse when going from AMD (5600XT) to Nvidia (3080).
The card vendor is definitely the key here, I encountered problems with AMD and hardware acceleration while my old NVIDIA card was fine. Yet, I also had the multiple monitor not waking up/not showing up, black screen with sleep with NVIDIA. I think these little bumps have to have a systematic testing bench for them when a card is reviewed. As it is now, there’s no way to tell if the card will play nice until you have it on the system.
vendor shouldnt matter as they need to meet minimum nvidia specs and use nvidia bios
@@Alex-zi1nb Sry, what are you talking about? 😂
What you're saying has nothing to do with each other. Implementations can and will vary, even if they meet specs. You clearly don't work in this industry, do you
prtoblem is theres so many dif configurations. as with ones default the other might not cope. such as 59.59 hz vs 60hz and such wierd shit.
Yeah my 3090 was flickering on my 4k monitor but my 1080p was fine.
I have 3x 4k 60hz monitor that I am setting up for sim racing. These monitors only run 4k 60hz on the Display Port. I'm looking at an 7900xtx (as they have dropped in price in my region and NVIDIA have lost the plot). The two cards I am looking at are the Sapphire Nitro+ and ASROCK gaming OC. The Sapphire cards have 2 x DP and 2 x HDMI 2.1 ports vs the ASROCK with 3x DP and 1 x HDMI 2.1 ports. I prefer the Sapphire card as I read too many user complaints about the ASROCK but I will have to run 1 monitor using a HDMI to DP cable/adaptor (Trying to find a cable that can do 4K 60hz at a decent price). Do you think I'd be better off with a card with 3xDP ports or with the right cable/adaptor it should be trouble free? Thanks.
Would go for 3 dp ports I do simracing as well on triples 32inch msi curved 1440p 165hz on a 4060 ti not the best card bud it works
Steve, I know you said you tried all kinds of different cables, but I remember back in the early days of AMD Eyefinity, at least one of the three monitors had to use an active cable rather than a passive cable.
i had issues with AMD 6900xt with DP connected zowei monitor along with the valve VR headset - also on DP ... had all sorts of issues with blank screen and no signal on boot and VR not working etc. its drivers related all of it for sure. Also had degraded FPS issue with the VR connected... i simply ended up just disconnecting the VR when i dont use it...
My GTX 970 has been having a similar issue where my primary monitor connected via displayport just doesn't wake up, while the two over HDMI do. They each have different resolutions and refresh rates though. I wonder how AMD/Intel would fair with that setup.
i ran a 7900 xt 4 monitors g9 neo and 3 27-inch msi 1440p.
The amd card would jump to 60c while idle but when I switched it back to single monitor it ran at 39c.
My 4090 runs at 35c single or the four monitors while idle. As for not waking up from sleep mode I have had triple monitor setups running for 10 years all nvidia never any problems. Power draw on nvidia was always lower as well. So, from my point of view AMD has the problem. I was going to get the 7900xtx for my new build. But when the 7900xt did what it did. I went back to Nvidia for my multi-monitor setup.
Refresh rates were 120 on g9 and 165 on msi monitors. as low as 60 on all and.
I've had issues with both my previous RX 5600 XT and on my current RX 6750 XT running two Gigabyte M27Q 1440p 170hz monitors (both on DP) I was often getting a black screen crash. Sometimes if one screen went black I could get into task manager on the other monitor and kill the AMD drivers and it would recover but sometimes I'd have to reset the PC. I fixed the issue by downloading a registry hack from an NVidia forum of all places that disables any web browser acceleration and it hasn't happened since. I guess my CPU usage is probably a little higher now playing RUclips videos but seems okay. The black screen crash would often happen when browsing facebook marketplace that was the easiest way to replicate the issue. 5-10 minutes on there and it would very likely happen.
does the problem happen on laptops with a 29" momitors?
My 3080 flickers on and off and has weird color issues for almost a minute when I turn on a second or third monitor. It also doesn't wake them up. I have to turn them on manually. My AMD mini PC with a 5500u APU runs the same displays with absolutely no issues. Just another reason this is my last Nvidia GPU.
Can some give me an answer to my question about the fact in my screen resolution that it has 3840 x 2160 shown but it has 1920 x 1080 (recommended) but my 32" Sanyo LCD TV 60hz (13 years old) is only FULL HD 1080p. Does that mean I can run 3840 x 2160 on my TV because people was saying to increase my resolution to 2k to fully utilise my 1080ti?
No need to answer Someone on Reddit said no and that I'm better off buying a monitor (IPS or OLED) or 4K OLED TV 120mhz +
Never had an issue with my 1080ti. Is this only for 30+ series?
Not sure why, I had issues running 2 displays on my 6000 series gpu. When I upgraded cpu made sure to get iGPU and just run 2nd display off that.
ive never had that problem with my GTX 1080 cards. im running 2 120hz lg 32 inch monitors and 2 Samsung G9 49 inch ultra wides at 240 htz. for a total of 4 monitors in one system. I could show you how well they run. so im not sure whats going on, but it sounds like a configuration issue and the cards themselves.
So that is my problem with my 1 monitor not waking up until I pull the HDMI cable out and out it back in? But I am on a 1080...
I have 3 monitors. 1 4k in portrait, 1 4k in landscape, and 1 ultra wide on a 4080. I have not had these experiences. Maybe it's because I have set prefer max performance in the Nvidia control panel?
don't you need Nvidia's Cuda and mercury engine for Adobe apps? even Illustrator 3D needs RTX for lighting..... im confused... should I not get 3070 and instead go for 6800XT?
Since launch, my 7900xtx pulls 120 watts at the windows log in screen. One monitor or two. No matter no care. No driver update has helped. (Samsung g7 27” and 32” both 1440/240fps). It’s on their “know issues board” but man, I wish it would get resolved. (7900xtx/7950x)
Edit- and im not going to turn my 240hz monitor down. Like I said. It does it with one or two connected.
I've been using the 7900xtx on dual monitors and I've been experiencing issues with this AMD card too. If I run my bluestacks android game emulator on my 2nd monitor and start another game (Apex Legends or Overwatch 2) on my main monitor. The graphics drivers will crash and restart, crashing my games along with it. However I didn't have this issue with my older Radeon 6800 nor RTX 3080 cards.
how do you know it’s a crash caused by your graphics driver?
@@matthias6933 cuz the graphics driver crashes?
I have a lot of problems with my multi monitor setup. waking them up isnt a part of it gladly. One is an msi wqhd 165hz and the second is an LG 4k 60fps. When hovering above the task bar (dark mode) the bar creates artifacts in form of clouding and if im using the search bar on the second monitor instead of the main one the whole setup starts flickering and showing content from minimised windows.
On the 79xx it seems to pull more power than previous gens on AMD by 60-70watts. Sleep mode on AMD GPUs then the issue you described here also was on the 5700xt and since then I just have run sleep mode off on AMD and never bothered with seeing if it was ever fixed.
With eyefinity vs surround I like to run extended when on desktop
With AMD gpu's if all monitor say same resolution you can set what games you want in eyefinity and when you open the game it will go from extended to eyefinity and then when you exit the game it goes back to extended. On Nvidia you have to set surround and when exit you have to turn it off. In doing so it would shut off two of the monitors that you would have to go in and re-enable them. Since this aspect I have not tested beyond the 10 series on multi monitor. Today I run 2 1080p monitors and a 1440p monitor on AMD I have to use eyefinity pro to do eyefinity and use the fill options in eyefinity pro to get a proper display to play my sim games and when you discard eyefinity pro settings it goes back to extended monitors. Everything has always been better with AMD gpu's in this use case at 5760x1080 it usually benchmark close to 4k settings but in my use with the three different resolution monitors I would be worried if I got a 4090 it would not work correctly. With a half ton of issues getting set up working on it ultimately my goal is 3 4k monitors for sim based games at 120 fps at least for the sim games but looking at the 6900xt at this resolution some sim games only hit about 30fps and it looks like the Benchmarks it would basically be a 8k res and a few of my games might push 120 on a 4090 but not all Forza horizon 5 runs 30 with out RT on and a 70ish % upgrade to a 4090 would only be 60 ish fps so upgrade monitors or GPU would not reach this goal with out turning the settings way down for 3k cost I figured skip this gen and look at next gen numbers and make the call from there and ride on current monitors. I was pissed when I got Nvidia and had all these issues with just 3 1080 monitors back when and when the EVGA 1070 went out for RMA as it had the fire issue the 10 series hard. I used my r290 on it's place and the ease of use led me to keep my r290 and sell the 1070, and when the last mining boom ended I picked up a Vega 64 to replace the 1070. Then no Nvidia on my multi monitor gaming rig since . Not long after I swapped back some Nvidia users told me of a software that can be used to let it snap like extended with Nvidia but it comes with a water mark unless you pay $100 for it. In windows 11 it has the snapping options as well however because no one ever tests this aspect on different resolution monitors for surround or eyefinity I am in the dark about whether it will work or not on Nvidia with how my monitors are set up currently. It not worth the gamble to buy a 4090 to test this myself . And pissed at AMD for what they did on mpt tools on the 79xx and don't want to buy a 7900xtx to get 60 fps for 1300 or more . With how they blocked more power tool, then I have not seen any information on arc here have not looked for it either as arc is less then what I have currently with GPU. So this information would be useful when they come out with something competitive but not now. Lol
I run a 1440p 144hz monitor and a 1080p 144hz monitor and I have never experienced this issue with either my 980ti or 3060ti
So I got this Alienware dwf monitor and it's the best monitor I ever had, but the issue is that HDR doesn't work right on amd cards for some reason, so unless that gets fixed I can't even switch. Also odd that the DW with the gsync module, does HDR fine on amd cards but the freesync premium dwf does not. It's all sorts of messed up. Would like the option to switch to amd.
I have a minor issue with my 6800XT. It doesn't recognize both of my monitors right away. I had to swap connectors around 1 or 2 times, after that it's flawless.
With my previous GPU, 1070ti, one of my monitors did flicker after waking up.
I'm looking forward to getting a few DP MST hubs to arrive so that I can get my 8 30 inch 2K monitor wall to be a lot less janky.
I acquired a cheap top spec rx580 8GB card and there are conflicting information regarding whether they support 6 monitors or not.
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Strangely I have had the opposite situation. My LG OLED would not wake up correctly with an AMD video card
I run 4x 1080p monitors on a GTX 1080 and it's always pulling more than 40W because it never drops to 2D clocks (currently running at 1190MHz). I had the same thing with my previous GTX 960, and probably with my GTX 660 but that was too long ago to remember.
This is working as intended. The higher power draw doesn't really come from a higher gpu clock but a higher memory clock as with multiple monitors the memory clock always runs at its highest frequency. This is because the memory clock can only be changed between frames as you would get artifacts otherwise. The problem is, these timings don't align if you have 2 monitors with different refresh rates so there is no opportunity for memory clocks to adjust to the current workload in that case. Also keep in mind that even 2 monitors with the same refresh rate often don't have the exact same timings so even in this scenario the memory clocks don't adjust like they would when using only one monitor.
thats 5W per Monitor
Pretty sure AMD had far worse issues with power draw specifically and very recently as well.
It can also be the monitors. Someone I know and I have just ONE of the exact same ASUS 28” 4K 60Hz monitor and he has an Nvidia GPU i have an AMD GPU and we both have to power cycle the monitor, sometimes multiple times. Bizarrely this does not happen on iGPU with an intel CPU because we tried that.
I'm running (3) 1440p monitors - LG 27GP83B's on a 6700 XT. I really need to upgrade to a new GPU b/c I initially was only running one panel on that GPU. Now with all the extra pixels, it's time for a bigger GPU. For the past month I have been going back and forth on a 7900 XTX vs a 4090. I'd rather not buy a 4090, and I really like the AMD software, but is there a reason to go with the 4090 over the XTX? I am only gaming. DLSS3 is an irrelevant point with FSR3 around the corner, and I'm not doing any productivity work. I have a 1000 watt PSU with the 12V high power plug that I bought in anticipation of possibly an NVIDIA GPU. Do I go for the 4090, or will the XTX carry me for the next 5 or so years? I'm only considering the Nitro XTX or the MSI Gaming Trio X 4090.
I have an XT and am very happy with it, and you can see a pretty solid improvement with an undervolt, and overclock. My card will easily drop from 1100mv to 1020 while pushing target clocks from 2750mhz to 3500mhz seeing actual clock speeds hitting highs of around 3200mhz on and optimized games, and that's all on a reference card with a gimped power limit.
I haven’t had any issues with my 3080Ti’s in my Multi-Monitor Setup
Love the content. Have always had AMD GPUs and a predominately Intel CPUs, but just went straight AMD this build. I have no regrets as the new drivers fixed my issues with game crashes.
I don't know if this is the same thing, but occasionally this seems to happen with my laptop. But I suppose a laptop connected to an external monitor sort of is multi monitor. I know that sometimes I have to unplug and reconnect it to wake up the monitor.
When I tested a game crash with a driver that would happen, the monitor had no physical on/off so I used a power strip to cut electricity.
AMD driver talks direct to the hardware, making it harder to recover from some issues down to cabling or software faults.
When it's working I like knowing it's not fallen back to some degraded mode or is stealth restarting a virtual display, but you need a proper power switch for convenience, for when you do hit trouble.
I've got a 3080 12gb with 4 monitors, 1 for desktop gaming and 3 for sim racing, I guess I'm lucky I've had no problems
@HUB Clips
maybe its not only the gpu to blame and also motherboard vendors.
i rellay never had any of the problems youre talking about but iam also not running 4k displays
i had 970 with triple screens and currently run a 2080 with triple screen and the only single problem i ever had was that at some point one of the secondary screens i was unalbe to change bit-depth and dynamic output in nvidia color settings.
but yeah i noticed that clocks in general seem to increase compared to 1 screen and my gpus for some reason do not downclock as much as i was used to on a single screen.
RX 6600 user here - I also have wake up issues - my main 165hz monitor won't turn on.
Monitor frequency issue has been a problem when I used multiple display settings on nvidia.
I've got a 4 display setup with an RTX 3070.
900p 60hz
1080p 60hz
1440p 240hz
4k 60hz (TV)
I do have problems every now with detection issues, but most of my problems seem to stem from windows itself. My displays will randomly and unprompted, try to reformat themselves. It causes unwanted flickering, and lag whenever it happens. I think it's the TVs fault. I turn it off when I'm not using it, and that is when the issue is the worst.
Disable MPO, fixes 90% of the time the multimonitor problem, fixed my AMD 6700XT Red Devil tho :)
I have a 6700XT, the only problem I have is when I play games and the game is in a different resolution than my 2nd monitor and when I alt+tab it glitches a little bit.
use borderless windows mode
I had the exact opposite problem. Amd 7900xt 3rd monitor would not wake up. Sent back and got 4080, never have an issue since. All 3 monitors are same too
Also had a 3070 before the 7900xt ans it never has issues. Almost made me never want to try again, but I think im going to get a cpu that has integrated graphics to run monitors 2 and 3 and run main with gpu.
Another great Q&A.
Not sure how anyone can claim that, when RX 7900 consumes 100W in idle...
I personally use 2 monitor setup in the last 10+ years and had no major problems with either AMD and NVIDIA. Aside from high idle power which I think happens from time to time to both NVIDIA and AMD, now with Intel too...
I have a dual monitor set-up (1 - 27” 2K 240HZ 1- 27” 2K 165HZ) both are ViewSonic; my primary 2K / 240HZ is set to run max 240HZ as I use it for gaming but I run my 2nd monitor at 60HZ because I don’t use it for gaming, don’t see the point in using more power to run my 2nd display at over 60HZ.
My RTX 4090 hasn’t had any issues here nor my GTX 1080Ti prior.
I've never had a dual monitor issue with the 1060, 2070 or 4070ti. I've ran different resolutions & refresh rates on them as well.
I had this problem with my old 2060 Super and 3080ti, from time to time one of my 2 the monitors wouldn't wake from sleep, had to restart the pc or unplug the cables to fix it. Also had problems with both cards sometimes turning on the wrong monitor(turning on the secondary instead of the main one and vice versa).
I'm now using a 7900 xtx and never happened again.
Triple monitor setup, msi rx 6950 xt for 4 months, previously msi rx 6600 xt for 9 months, never once did i have a problem with monitors
I have two monitors with different resolutions and refresh rates and my 2070s idles at 50-60W instead of 15/20W, it's infuriating. I've tried everything, with custom resolutions and refresh rates and trying to sync them etc. Only think that works is to run my high refresh rate monitor at 60Hz... terrible solution.. It makes me so mad.
There's an issue with AMD and multi-monitor too. While playing a ame on main screen and YT video on another screen, the performance in game drops heavily. Quite often the framerate fixes at 30fps until video is paused. Disabling hardware acceleration has no impact.
never had that issue on my 6700 XT
Can confirm. If there's any motion or screen updates on my 2nd or 3rd monitor, performance on the main drops significantly, to around 30 fps from 300. It is possible due to the fact that my main runs on 144Hz and the rest are 60Hz, not sure. It also causes some glitch-like artifact for a couple of frames on main screen.
Happened on both 5500 XT and 6800.
@@Sorrocasharked i have a 6700xt to hold me while i get a 4k card, running 2 4K displays, it runs fine, but i do get random hard freezes (every other day: like the display driver just chokes and i got to restart my rig via power button) i dont do work so its whatever, reboot takes 20s max, so its not a bother. It happens mostly when i have an active game client running on my secondary screen while playing content on my main screen.
Never had that issue with my 6900xt and I run 3 screens of different resolutions lol.
This was an issue with windows and was fixed in Windows 10 2004 20H1. I've never had any issues since on both AMD and NVidia. The only problem I had was the grey screen after waking the computer from sleep but disabling MPO fixed that.
Tbh I haven't experienced any brand specific multi monitor issues. Every GPU I've owned and my brother has owned on his PC experienced multi monitor issues so I think it's at least in part a windows issue
It is a windows issue for sure. When i was running ubuntu on wayland everything rand perfect with some unrelated issues and bugs. Multi monitor on windows can be a nightmare sometimes
Tbh I've never had issues with mine running a 2080 and igpu for 5 monitors, the only problem I encountered was when I changed refresh rates on my main monitor in the nvidia control panel it disabled my two screens connected via cpu which was a little strange but i just had to go into intel graphics command centre and enable them again.
why In hell would you run 5 Monitors? D: is there any production benefit beyond 2 or 3?
@@HCMORGI stock traders tend to have anywhere between 4-8 monitors
@@ElSkeppo that doesnt Sound like a fun job :(
@@HCMORGI Im not a stock trader but I have 3 monitors used as 1 display for racing simulator, Main monitor and secondary monitor for playing games whilst watching streams or youtube and a tv by the sofa for movies or playing games with friends!
After switching to amd I was pleasantly surprised when it defaulted to 144hz with freesync active. I had to set all of that up on nvidia. I did not know I was running 60hz for the first little bit when I got my first high refresh rate monitor a few years ago.
I had a 1070 until a few months ago, switched to a 6700xt. I have been running dual monitors since 2010.
My 1070 never had the monitor wake issue or any of the other common problems. I did suffer heavily from microstutter when playing games if I had ANYTHING that had animations on the second monitor. This was with every driver.
My 6700xt "and at work I have a rx560 in my work computer" I rarely "1-2x a month" get just static on a monitor. This happens with both 1 monitor and dual monitor setups. But only happens on Non DP monitors. The 6700xt does get some microstutter on main monitor but its much less than my 1070 had.
I looked for a video like this but to me is the contrary. I have a PC with amd 580 8gb and 3 monitors 24 in, and another PC with 1060 6gb with 2 24 in. monitors and one 21.5. Everytime I change from some screen to another in AMD I get a flicker and screen reconstruction which does not happens with Nvidia. Latest drivers, Win 11, 32 RAM and Nvidia works better. Strange.
I wonder if the same issue spreads over to g-sync ready monitors as well. Or does nvidia have a reason to not address this known issue because they want you to buy their approved branded monitors.
No issues running a 1080p 180hz monitor and 55 4k120 OLED tv together on my Nvidia gpu
I just built my first pc and noticed this with my build. I hope there is a fix for this. 3070ti
This happend to me with one monitor. One! It was with dell laptop. Laptop monitor always used integrated intel GPU, but when I plugged one of the monitors using HDMI, it just doesn't start. Had to use type-c to DP adapter to enable use of this monitor with this laptop. HDMI in this monitor directly connected to Nvidia GPU
My experience is the opposite and I've built like 5+ systems over the 30 series lifespan. AMD is the with the issues with different resolutions and frame rates with multiple monitors while with Nvidia i didnt have any. 6800xt, 6700, 6700xt, 6600xt, 3060, 3080 and 3090
Same. 6900xt was far worse with multiple monitors than any of the Nvidia cards I've tried. I tried two different models of that card because I wanted it but it couldn't do two monitors while on a zoom call without infinite driver crashing.
I do have one small Issue with my Nvidia card. I use a Monitor and a TV. It runs fine, but when I turn off the TV the PC still recognizes the TV as ON. Might be a TV Problem and not a Nvidia Problem. In that case I use the shortcut Win+P to switch to a single Monitor.
Its not non of them as a long a ur tv is connected on your Graphics card it will always identify your tv as the second monitor .So by turning off your tv that doesn't mean that you gonna switch back to single monitor. It practically still plugged in is just your tv display is off and u cannot see it
thats not realy a problem. TV´s are build in a way, so that they can controle or beeing controled over HDMI/DP, but a GPU ( doesnt matter wich brand) doesnt support this features. for a TV it is normal to still send a signal over HDMI to show a conected device its presents , so when you turn on sayed device, it can turn on your TV and ajust the signal input and maybe the sound output too ( depending on wich devices are conected) and accept the remote inputs of a other device. gpu´s just see a conected HDMI device and pretend, that it is a display and try to use it as such.
To think I stopped multi-monitor because on AMD with multi and current drivers the VRAM frequency cannot drop to save power, so it uses more power for something that was a bit naff with W10 anyway and caused confusion for Steam so games would grab the wrong display.
A reason to try W11 is it is supposed to save the multi-monitor window layouts you setup.
Running 4090 with (1)Acer 4K60 and (2)Asus 4K144. Sometimes monitor 2 (Asus) doesn't wake. Not an issue all the time, but enough to irritate at times. The big issue when this happens is that my settings/control panel is on the sleeping monitor, that can be a pita.
Yup same, happens with my 3070Ti and 3080 too. I always lmao when people cry about AMD drivers and things like this happen on Nvidia for years now. If only AMD had better RT support i would jump ship in a heartbeat I wouldn't even care about DLSS anymore as almost all new games come with both DLSS and FSR.
I have 4k 144hz as main, 2k 144hz as second and 4k 60hz tv as my 3rd. Had both the 3070ti and 3080 act weird whenever I have 3 monitors plugged in. Random flickering, monitors turning on and off, and mose importantly, made my mouse stutter like crazy to the point that it was unusable. Unplugging the 4k 60hz tv was the only solution. Disabling the monitors in windows didn't do anything.
Vega was the only exception. If I had multiple monitors connected things like "grub" (bootloader) won't show up.
Woah I thought it was my monitor. I found changing cables or switching from using HDMI to DisplayPort sometimes helped. I have a 4 monitor setup with a 3070. 1 4K with 3 1080p
That 3070 really is screaming for help 😂
My 3090 rarely wants to wake up with just ONE monitor!
Once in a while, not even a reboot will get it to display!
Been that way over many driver updates.
My 6900xt couldn’t handle multi monitors with different refresh rates for some reason. It would not allow my OLED tv to be my third monitor. I swapped in my 4090 with the same monitor setup and i have no issues. The 4090 had issues with waking up monitors though, had to flash the bios on the card.
5700xt - main LCD is 16:9 at 120Hz HDR Dell and secondary one is 60Hz 16:10 Dell... different resolutions, without a single problem, at GOOD CABLES. At standard cables, got sometimes a black screen
Same here have good cables as well, from Micro Center rated for 8k 60hz. With the 6900xt the 2 monitors ran fine (Samsung 4k 240hz and LG 4k 144hz) Once I hooked up the LG OLED Tv 4k 60hz it was just a black screen. It identified it just no picture. Swapped cables, no luck. Did some digging seemed to be a known issue. Anyway, sold that card and scooped a 4090 at launch runs everything no issues.
3080 + neo g9 and second 1440p minitor I can’t resume from sleep state without having to shut down monitors 2/3 times
My rx 7900 XT has a weird issue where the screen lags after the pc sleeps. But this only happens if the pc sleeps on it’s own. If I make it sleep and wake it there is no issue
I actually have the same problem with my 2nd monitor on a sapphire RX 5700 XT nitro+ when I turn it on. I'm using 2 1440 curved monitors currently but I have another 1440 curved monitor and 12.3" stretch bar display to add using the 2 display ports, and I am undecided on whether to fit the 7" display either in the motherboards hdmi port or usb. As far as I know there is current issue opening with amd' adrenaline software not opening and has been doing this since their last update. I believe it is problem plaguing many people across a wide range of amd gpu's. I'm hoping it won't affect what I'm about to add, but I'm contemplating an upgrade from the ryzen 5 3600x to the 7 7800x3d and possibly the powercolour 7900 xt hellhound. My budget cannot quite stretch to the sapphire rx 9700 xtx nitro+.
I have a single 1440p ultrawide monitor paired with a GTX 1060 6GB (soon to be upgraded) and every 100 or so wake ups I have to unplug and plug again my display port cable in order to get video. It’s rare, but it happens.
Hear me out: AMD doesn’t have issues with multimonitor setups because it uses 120W on idle. :)
-A 7900XTX owner
Maybe you should update your drivers, mine idles at ~15w
I had issues with multi monitor on both RX580 and RX6600
On RX580 it'll keep the memory clock at full steam all the time if I plug more than 1 monitor into it, making idle power draw 4 times higher than normal.
On RX6600 when I game the second monitor will flicker like crazy if I alt tab out of game. That was fixed on later drivers tho.
Definitely not issue free for AMD.
I've had the Nvidia multi monitor issue and I found it so bad, the default windows VGA driver worked better...
Ok for me going from 60 to 165 it was incredibly noticeable in the desktop and Minecraft noticeable in seige and then certain other games not at all though they all were running at 165 FPS but they were all slow motion games or very little motion such as astroneer
The problem with Radeon cards is that often ram goes to 3D clocks as soon as you use more than 1 monitor. Throw in any secondary and if it's not the same frequency/resolution, 3D vram clocks go there fixed all the time. Especially if you throw into the mix the HDMI connector. It has been like so since Radeon HD 5000, i don't know what is needed to AMD to be like Nvidia that generally won't move from idle clocks on both vram and GPU core, unless you hook 3 or 4 entirely different resolution/refresh or again, you add an HDMI monitor.
IME even many 2 monitor configs can settle at a low P state but still above the lowest. There are a lot of potential factors and but Nvidia have had problems in the past. Pascal had big issues with DP 1.3/1.4 which was still finnicky even after a firmware patch.
@@JJFX- Had some DP fw bios for a Gigabyte 1080 G1 Gaming but that was for DP wake up and to fix the fact that it defaulted to another monitor for bios boot. Other than that multi monitor is fine on Nvidia Gpus since at least 500 series, haven't tried with previous ones or it's too long ago. :)
@@JMatrx Yeah the issue affected most Maxwell/Pascal based cards and I believe some older SKUs that were probably Maxwell rebrands. I've still seen intermittent issues with some Pascal monitor setups but overall it doesn't seem to be a big problem. I have a 1200p:60hz/1440p:265hz GTX1080 work system with occasional flicker at idle on the 1440 and it definitely doesn't idle in the lowest P-State but for the most part it works perfectly fine.
Watching this on a triple Gigabyte M32U 144Hz IPS 4k setup connected to a RX 7900XTX, OS is Linux Fedora 38 beta release, can confirm it just works.
Both have there share of driver issues it's good to hear someone actually saying this stuff rather than just saying amd driver bad lol
I've ran multiple PCs in my house for many years now using both amd and Nvidia from as far back as 770 from Nvidia and hd 7970 from amd right up to modern cards and issues have always been pretty evenly split.
On windows
On Linux it's totally different story Nvidia always been absolute nightmare
Not Really although the following issues happens with both AMD and Nvidia. High memory usage at idle with multi high refresh monitors has been an problem for ages . Its not cool having your vram fully loaded when your not doing anything. Workarounds include reducing 165hz to 120haz and 144 to 60hz then it drops to 7w from 40w originally on 32" 1440p 165hz & 1080p 144hz monitor.
I have been running 8 monitors with 2 750ti cards for many years. Very few issues.
Personally I have never used any kind of sleep status for my monitors and being a sim racer, NVIDIA has been the way to go for triple screen racing with iRacing. NVIDIA SMP is a great feature with more performance and AMD simply can't match it there.
imo that issue is so small to notice on nvidia but yeah I agree, That amd is better on everything right now especially on value. You wouldn't need to upgrade after just upgrading again on amd, mean while on ngreedia your8 or 10 gb vrams is not enough
I have bought nvidia rtx 4070 ti only because AMD rx 7900 xt has issues with multi monitor setup. I have 2x 1440p 165 hz monitor and 1x 1080 144 hz monitor. And on AMD i had power consumption on idle 100W, when on nvidia i have 30-35W on idle. AMD has not fixed this issue to this day.
If possible can you guys keep HUB Clips vids to under 5 minutes or less, I mean do whatever you want with your channel I'll probably watch anyway but I would love this to be a short (not shorts) videos channel
I have a rx 6600.
It ramps up vram clocks when playing any video.
Ridiculous.
I run 6 x 2k monitors with 2 Nvidia Quadro T600. First T600 died in less than 18 months and the 2nd T600 died 2 months later. Crazy failure rate for a Quadro card. Previously i run 4 full HD monitors with AMD Firepro card. No issue!
Might be a more happened over the Nvida but personal experience it never happen at all. Running Triple since 2022 Summer
I have 1 32" ultrawide 3440x1440 monitor and a 27" 2560x1440p wide monitor and if I had a game running on the ultrawide (even a low requirement game like Rocket League) my 3060 would struggle to also display a 2k yt video on the 27" without stutters. Hope I won't have this issue on a new RX 7800 XT
I hav the 7900 xtx and I can’t say I’ve had any blue screens or anything but I run a 360hz monitor and when I run a dual monitor setup my frame stutters are terrible. Even with only one monitor I’ve realized that the 1% lows in some games are terrible on my card.
maybe bad CPU, RAM or SSD
@@rayanvrfr I can rule out the cpu and ssd as I’ve used them with both a 3060 12g and a 3080 10g with no issues. The ram probably does have a slight performance impact as I’m running 4 dimms at expo speed and zen 4s memory controller is not that great. However judging by the fact that the other two gpus ran smoothly I am pretty confident in saying the 7900 xtx is the problem.
Multi monitor king but 100w in idle with it
My 7900xtx cant run my 240 hz monitor with 60 hz monitor without massive performance hit, it sucks so much I just run 1 monitor. My 1080 could do it just fine
I have two 1080p monitors, one 144hz and one 75hz... if I set it to 144hz, the gpu is sitting at stable 1560mhz on core sitting at 60°C and using good chunk of vram. If I lower the refreshrate to 120hz, it drops to 130mhz and no usage on vram whatsoever nice and cool 42°C. I tried possibly everything and just resorted to capping it to 120hz and when I boot up game I let the game use the 144hz framerate. GPU is 1080Ti and I've seen good chunk of people complaining about this and Nvidia is just playing ""LA LA LA I don't hear you game"".
Meanwhile my Asrock 7900xtx taichi has no issues with my multi monitor setup. So, who knows?
Reading the comments, this seems to be all over the place, both with Nvidia and AMD tbh
I’m running a gtx1080 with 3 1080p monitors…. It’s fucken pain fuk only get 60 fps on fortnite dx 11 custom settings not even maxed.. FORTNITE I’m thinking of going to the RX 7800XT and running the G12 kraken aio water cooled