What would be an ultimate video card setup?

Question

Hi

Does anyone have advice on a video card that would be super good for xplane?

I have a bunch of RX 580 8gb cards.  What is the deal with using 2 cards, is that SLI?

What is the maximum number of monitors I can run?

Answer 1

Hi N958DC,

I am not with Laminar Research or Laminar Research; just a flight simmer from down under.

Considering your login name, you have an association with an aircraft with the same registration and most likely living in the USA.

Have a look at the videos in the following link found at https://www.youtube.com/user/col2mab/videos produced by Michael Brown.  Michael owns and operates a PC supplier company called XForcePC and Laminar Research recommends this company to supply PCs capable of running X-Plane.

In particular have a look at a video created about 3 weeks ago whereby Michael performs comparison tests with the RX580 card.  

I understand this is an AMD card.  AMD GPUs and CPUs haven't performed as well as NVidia GPUs and Intel CPUs.  

Unless changes are made in the planned 11.30 release, X-Plane does not work in SLI mode.

How many monitors.  Consider the advice in the videos from Michael.  If you live in the USA contact Michael for confirmation.

Good luck

Glenn

Comments

SLI is a function of the NVidia drivers .

My understanding is that Nvidia are reluctant to develop bespoke drivers unless the market makes it worthwhile.

So you will see SLI support for the major mass market shoot-em-up games but XP has ,so far , not been supported for this purpose by NV.

There is a wikipedia article on SLI which is worth a quick 2 minute scan to understand the history and how its implemented.