The Titan IS AWESOME!!! For all applications, buuuuuuut. you could get reasonably close with 2 high end NVidia gaming gpus. I used to do VFX for films and (on my own) I’ve used dual 680s for animation and rendering and they work just fine (this was back when they were new of course). Not quite as well as the Titan but unless you’re trying to make Star Wars or something you’re not going to need quite that much power. Right now I’m running a Lenovo laptop with dual 755s and it’s REALLY fast. I can run pretty much anything there is at a more than acceptable speed with no problems. It’s really all about what your goal is. If you’re actually working on a film then you might want a workstation gpu. If you’re working on your own stuff I’d go with a couple of high end gaming gpus as they are a little more versatile and still give you good solid speed. If you’re trying to get a gig somewhere don’t sweat the power of your system, worry about the quality of what you can do with what you have. For instance a character animator can make a reel with just animated skeletons and a studio won’t fuss so long as the animation is good. A modeler can just make stills, etc. Nobody expects you to have what they have in the big leagues anyway. A full fledged BOXX Technologies workstation costs like $50,000 and let’s not even get into render farms (although there are a few free ones floating around online I believe - but who wants to do that). ILM used in house designed graphics cards so you’ll never get the quality they had. In fact most use tons of stuff they make in house. If you look around the web for jobs you’ll find that they’re always hiring engineers and programmers for that very reason. Concentrate on being good not fancy. If you want to do game design you’ll need a gaming gpu - if only for testing. I don’t know about running two different gpus but for some reason I want to say it’s not a good idea.