1 Card for displaying and another for rendering

[l_jones]

This question was asked on 'Lumion' forums, which seems to be some kind of CAD program:

Hi,

Not sure if this question was asked, cuz i can't find it.
But is it possible to have your display on 1 card and another card do all the heavy lifting (eg. rendering & calculations). I have 2 X ATI R9 280x's and would like to use it fully.

I'm not talking about crossfire or sli.

Thanks

(They said it could be done btw)

I was just wondering if this could be applied to all programs or many games, as I am currently using a 1050ti with a 750 sitting in a box doing nothing.

I'll have to buy a new power supply to run both GPU's so was wondering if it would be worth the money.

I feel like it would be more worthwhile when I get a new monitor 100+hz and probably 2k.

Thanks,

(neither of them can run SLI)

 

[tennis2]

No.

Also, why would you want to? You're being very vague about WHAT you want to display and what you want to render. The task of literally displaying an image/frame on a screen is trivial. All the work is done on the render (aka, determining what that image should look like).