Video card options for 4k/5k monitor setup, not a gamer.

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DaPayne

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I have went back and fourth and back and fourth with my display. I have had the Dell 32" 4k monitor and the 27" 5k monitor and while the displays look gorgeous they bring my system to its knees as far as video goes. I have a Titan X and GTX 980 and neither one have the snap that I would like to have for speed on the system. The Titan is good in Windows, but when I am using OSX it is a flake. For someone that isn't a gamer what would you recommend? It has been years since I have done dual video cards(3DFX Voodoo2) and it was sketchy at best then. How well does the SLI work these days? I primarily use OSX and the Titan X doesn't run so well with the web drivers. And the MacPro(Dual D700 graphics) is just plain doggy with the 5k display, so what does everyone recommend? I also would really like to do dual or triple displays as my favorite setup was 3xZR30w's. Options? What are some proven combinations that people have done? That really works, and hopefully will allow decent performance with 3x5K displays. I did try two recently and it was PAINFULLY slow. TIA I would also consider stepping down to 3x4K display's but the 5K's I really like just because of how much you fit on the desktop, it seems that the 32" monitor is just a bit too large to be effective for me. I think that a 5k 30" display would be perfect.
 
Sorry if I missed it, at 1 in the morning a wall of text is hard to read.

What do you need to do with the monitors? Surf? Excel? Page Layout? Porn?

That will help us help you.

For 2d ether card should be fine in Windows. IMO. Done know about Apple side drivers though.

What are the rest of your specs?

For pure 2d (light 3d) and multi monitors, I have heard Matrox is really good.
 
Surf, light 3d engineering, development/scripting photo editing, and yeah some porn lol I work from home and these are my primary systems.

I have two systems that I use one is i7-4790k and i7-4770, I also have an older i5-3570. 32GB of ram Samsung and Vortex SSD's. Everything other than OS is on an iSCSI mount to ZFS that I have hard wired in. I don't OC anything usually. Gigabyte boards. I do have one Xeon system here with 64GB of ram but I use it for spooling up VM's to do testing with.
 
Jimmy, I already have one and 3d still brings it to its knees when @5k. Also it doesn't run well under OSX.
 
I don't know what you mean by slow.
Certainly 3d rendering at 5k is probably a killer but other than that it should be plenty fast.

I recently had the chance to try a pc with a titan x driving 3 4k displays running a simulation and monitoring for an oil company and it seemed to work fine. The guy in charge certainly had a smile on his face.
 
Ok, I have done 3x4k on UP3214k's and it "felt" faster than what the 5k does. The reason that it felt that way I believe was the fact that I was using a single reference 980 GTX on the center monitor and on the outboards I had a 980GTX driving those. The card's were not configured in SLI. I might try a Quadro, I have used them years ago and they were great back then. One problem is that you have to have two display port 1.2's to run the monitor at 5k. I wish my phone handn't fried on Friday, to give you an idea with VLC playing a 1080P video I get window lag when it is playing video and re-sizing it at the same time. I am really not hip on spending 5k for a video card. I am a little more hip on paying almost 2k for the K5000 so my credit card just got a work out with that one. I would like to try the M6000 but it is 5k for the card and I don't know where to even get one to try.
 
Quatro is not a good choice unless you really need it (light 3D/CAD probably won't be it) as its mainly just using different drivers.

I doubt you'll get SLI working in OSX. I had 970 SLI and there are no settings to enable SLI in the web drivers. I suppose using different cards to drive different monitors should work. Is the system a real Mac or a Hackintosh?
 
kasakka: I have real Mac's and Hackintosh both. Under OSX I haven't gotten SLI to work. I use different cards for different monitors. My highest performance system is a E5-2680, I do have it where I can boot Hackintosh on it, but most of the time it is running Linux with 5-10 machines spooled up on it. I have had a "trash can" MacPro on demo but can't justify the 9k in cost when I can have more performance at a lower cost. I do have real macbook's and iMac's though.

I know that Quatro is a business card I hadn't thought about looking into those and what I call light just means I am not in it 24x7 but when I fire ProE or Designer up I want performance. Just right now I am having problems with the 5K setup and Mac. The other 3 machines are i7-4770k's or i7-4790k's I have GTX 980's and they all three are HTPC and useful PC's that are hooked to Vizio 4k display's, then in the Kitchen I have a UP3214K with a GTX970 with a 3570K. The biggest thing around the house is that I have at least three boot methods for every machine. Stand alone Windows 7 Ultimate, Windows 7 Ultimate that is connected to my work domain and then either real Mac or Hackintosh. Couple of the machines have Win 10 as test or the servers are running Solaris or Win 2012 server(only because I must have exchange).
 
I am not familiar with your productivity apps.

I have had VLC get touchy and quirky (slow) at 1080p.

When you say resize video are increasing the window size on the desktop or running a program to change the native resolution? Sorry I dont know much about your line of work. If your doing file manipulation/processing it might be the CPU holding you up (unless you can offload the work to the GPU?)
 
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