Can a cuda GPU card be helped by a card that is not cuda?

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gabeartist
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I have a geforce gtx 970, if I drop a Diamond AMD Radeon R9 290X 4GB DDR5 PCIe 3.0 Video Card, will it render faster?
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philliplakis
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No,

the card must be an nvidia with cuda.
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MaTtY631990
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For a limited time that is.
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gabeartist
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Whoa, plans to be compatible with non-Nvidia Cuda cards? Really?
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If the non-CUDA card is the display card, then the CUDA card can spend more of its time and memory rendering, and the output will be more responsive, so yes, it's possible.
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comments are right. but some extra info is for you. I have remembered some compatibility issues to run a Nvidia card with Ati 7970. You may have similar issues. Also I don't think that Cuda and Opencl rendering can work together. Best is to wait for details from Octane developers.
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