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Is there a process that allows the selection of any installed (or available) graphics card in any given PC to be switched on the fly without rebooting. POWERING DOWN the selected GPU?
For example, if you have an Nvidia Titan V Graphics Card that is used primarily for video games, flight simulators etc., but in actual daily use you only need this graphics power when playing those certain games or for certain CAD applications.
So 75% of the time, you could use far less video power for surfing the web ect or normal computer tasks.
The desired process would allow you to power down the Titan and simultaneously power up (or just switch to) a less expensive, lesser power hungry video card and allows this to be done hot, or on the fly. With only a brief blanking of the screen when this occurs.
I'm not talking about switching cables. I'm talking about completely powering down the Titan V when not actively using it and only powering the onboard or lesser GPU. This would involve programmatically turning of the power to the power supply pins to the GPU....same as when the computer is shut down.
When not in use, I simply don't need the power consumption or wear on the more expensive GPU.
Has anyone come up with a way to do this yet?
For example, if you have an Nvidia Titan V Graphics Card that is used primarily for video games, flight simulators etc., but in actual daily use you only need this graphics power when playing those certain games or for certain CAD applications.
So 75% of the time, you could use far less video power for surfing the web ect or normal computer tasks.
The desired process would allow you to power down the Titan and simultaneously power up (or just switch to) a less expensive, lesser power hungry video card and allows this to be done hot, or on the fly. With only a brief blanking of the screen when this occurs.
I'm not talking about switching cables. I'm talking about completely powering down the Titan V when not actively using it and only powering the onboard or lesser GPU. This would involve programmatically turning of the power to the power supply pins to the GPU....same as when the computer is shut down.
When not in use, I simply don't need the power consumption or wear on the more expensive GPU.
Has anyone come up with a way to do this yet?
