Is it possible to both GPU and CPU render in the same Blender instance? I have a Quad core CPU, that renders 4 chunks at a time. I also have a GTX 1060, which renders one chunk at a time, but renders chunks about 4x faster than the CPU. Can I use these both in the same instance of Blender for rendering? So I would be rendering 5 Chunks at a time. Or maybe the GPU would assist CPU somehow? I know you can just open blender twice and do skip framing, but I want something more convenient.

Note that I want to use this for rendering with Cycles.
It is now possible.

In the latest versions of 2.79 (check for the daily builds) you can use Hybrid mode: GPU and CPU as compute devices simultaneously.



Tile sizes have also been optimized for smaller tiles in GPU.

As always... test before you commit...