Second dedicated graphics card; mixing Nvidia and AMD

Bhibb

Hey all!
I have been doing more rendering in Blender which is a fantastic piece of FOSS, but one of the issues I’m hitting is that my GeForce GTX TITAN X alone is not doing the job quick enough. I’ve always wanted a graphics card from AMD, and I have heard that people who render 3d objects often have two graphics cards. My question is whether I could get a new AMD card, hook it up to be my secondary card, and still be able to utilize both the Nvida and the AMD cards at the same time for my Solus system?

Thanks!

Khrona

I have both an AMD (primary) and Nvidia (secondary) graphics card on my system and the only 2 problems I face is that I can't render any 3D stuff on my Nvidia card, because apparently Nvidia needs xorg-server 1.21 (which is not released yet) to support PRIME Render Offload with the proprietary drivers, and that the NVIDIA X Server Settings application crashes if I don't have this line in my GPU .conf file inside /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/: Option "AllowEmptyInitialConfiguration" inside Section "Device"

The only thing that seems to work in my Nvidia card for now is NVENC, which I use on OBS-Studio. But it may work fine for you if you use Nvidia as your primary card, I'm not sure.

Bhibb

Khrona Thank you for this info, I really appreciate it. I can't decide if it will be enough of a gain to purchase a newer AMD card and set up this configuration.
Thanks again!