Is it possible to use an NVidia 1050 graphics card for video rendering without connecting a monitor to it?

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OS - Linux Mint. At present, all the necessary drivers are installed on the computer, the video quality is determined and configured, but in the video editor the "use GPU" setting is inactive, and the download to/from is about 90 MB out of 2 GB, with the minimum frequency of the video core, i.e. in fact, it is not involved in / to. It is not possible to connect a monitor directly to the V/C either now or in the near future (a monitor with a VGA connector, I see no reason to change just for the sake of switching to HDMI). In this regard, the question arose: is it possible to use the NVidia 1050 H/C as a kind of "computer", without outputting video through it? It is planned to use V / C in the future for video processing (suddenly!) And, possibly, neural networks (again, image processing).

Answer 1

Yes, it is possible to use, but make sure it's worth it:
https://developer.nvidia.com/nvidia-video-codec-sdk
https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-toolkit
Too little slow memory for neural networks, but enough to play if cuDNN is worth it.