Mulitple GPU not utilized

[Francisco]

Hey guys noob here, just ugpraded to 2x 980ti's but it doesn't seem they are being utilized. They are being recognized but i definitely deson't seem to be rendering twice as fast. I'm running a single apple monitor on one card, in this screenshot in Octane

Shouldn't i see somewhere around ~8-12gb? Looks like only 1 card is being used


Preferences:


This is what C4d Looks like:


maybe i'm missing the point and this is accurate but it just doesn't feel like twice as fast. I'm currently doing a render logging the time, then enabling the second one and checking the speed there. Problem is i'm at work and can only control my computer from work. Can't restart at the moment. Any ideas?

Thanks in advance!

[Lewis]

RAM is not added, you have as much RAM as lowest GPU has it available. Each GPU get's same data/file so RAM is not additive.
So RAM usage/free is not gonna show you are both GPUs used or not. By the screengrab they should be used both. Try to test scene with just 1 GPU active and then with both active iin OctaneBench.

[Francisco]

RAM is not added, you have as much RAM as lowest GPU has it available. Each GPU get's same data/file so RAM is not additive.
So RAM usage/free is not gonna show you are both GPUs used or not. By the screengrab they should be used both. Try to test scene with just 1 GPU active and then with both active iin OctaneBench.

aaaah ok i really thought it changed the values but the octaneBench explained it! thanks for chiming in!