GPU for everything except obs, second GPU for encoding support? Question/Discussion

[DrAGoni_Penguin]

Hi, so I was wondering if you can record with a worse gpu (1650 super) and play games with a more powerful one to reduce load.
Based on previous posts, I gather this is not possible?
This is because it's not an integrated gpu, so I'm assuming that the gpu feature in advanced settings will not work?


Simply wanting to use NVENC encoding because of wider support and multi usage with small games, while I am aware of AMD's update to their encoder a few months ago and OBS's recent update to patch support further.

I am also aware of crossfire/sli support and implementation being dropped a while back.
Also assuming
I keep seeing posts of how it's not possible due to bottleneck and other problems, but can I get some further elaboration if not feasible?



TL;DR: Can you run a second gpu for encoding on OBS to reduce load and use NVENC?

Thanks!
Have a nice day!

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[rockbottom]

Better to just use (1) but offloading encoding to an iGPU works fantastic. I use it to encode all my streams, while the GPU is doing all the rendering & encoding the recording.