Dumb question, two monitors from one card

[Baggins_451]

I have a GTX 460 running two monitors from DVI connectors, the monitors have different resolutions.

How does the card allocate resources for each monitor ? Does it simply allocate half of the memory and processor cycles to driving each monitor ?

Hope that makes sense :-]

 

[Duff-Man]

In windows the load on the GPU is minimal, and the clockspeed is reduced dramatically from its maximum. The GPU will allocate sufficient clock cycles to handle whatever load is thrown at it, from either screen, but even at the reduced clockspeed the GPU will be idle for the majority of the time. Similarly, the GPU memory will be filled with whatever is required, by whichever screen. Again, only a very small percentage of the GPU memory will be filled.

In short, the GPU does not "allocate resources" to one screen or another, it dynamically alters its workload to match the required operations. Whether they come from one screen or the other (or both), it really does not care.

You can download Afterburner, or similar, to monitor your GPUs load and memory usage.

 

[Baggins_451]

Thank you Duff-Man