Ahhhhh........
tring01
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I've been learning Daz for about three years on my gaming laptop. 8G RAM and a Geforce 750M. Needless to say, I learned to be very efficient with my IRay scenes.
Today I built my monster system. 32G RAM, i7-6700k 4Ghz, dual GTX 980 Ti. I just rendered a scene I built on my laptop. It took my laptop two hours to get the scene to around 80% convergence. My new machine finished the render to 95% convergence in just under 6 minutes.
Ahhhh........
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Great!
Thanks. I'd been waiting and waiting for the drivers for the 1070 to come out - then saw a post with some tests and the 980 Ti was as fast or faster. I scored a pair of them brand new on eBay for $850. Great card for $425 each!
I've had one 980Ti for over a year, and it works well. You got a good price and will enjoy them.
...indeed good price on those 980s. I've seen single ones going for as much as 900$.
Looking at the 1070 myself, Yeah not as many cores but more importantly for me, an extra 2 GB of memory. The only 8 GB Maxwell card is the 2,500$ Quadro M5000. If I had that much to throw at a GPU I'd get a 16 GB P5000 instead.(interestingly, the same price).
Just remember that computer hardware has the same effect as money....the more you have, the more you spend. Sooner or later you'll be building scenes so big and full that even that nice card ya just got won't hold them. LOL. I should know...I have the same card (and here I am, waiting for a render...lol) ;).
Laurie
...I already do that yet my GPU has only 1 GB.and my sytem only 12 GB (well actually 10.7 after Widnows and system utilities). One scene I created is 8.9 GB in size when loaded. That one goes into swap mode when rendering. To contain my scenes in VRAM would require at least a Pascal Titan-X if not a Quadro P5000. If I had an extra 5,300$ burning a hole in my pockat I'd just say bugger it and get a Quadro P6000 with 24 GB.
Too true!! 8-)
Wow! Now that sounds like a monster!
Congrats on your new rig Tring, and way to score a killer deal on the graphics cards!
...if you are speaking of the scene (see attachment below), indeed. 8 Genesis/G2 figures, large set, a number of emissive lights, "voulumetic" cube to simulate a fine misty rain, and wet surfaces.
If you are referring to the Quadro P6000 yes that card is a total beast as it has as just as much VRAM as the physical memory that my MB supports.
I used to have a problem with the RDL7 scene (Preview, not render) then upgraded my computer and it worked great. Now I've fallen behind the curve again.
I should of went for the ti when I got the 980 oh well 1080's are cheaper then 980ti's were back then. I will prolly just build a new rig with one next spring summer see how it goes..
Are you using the latest Nvidia drivers? They appear to use GPU memory more efficiently (I don't know about RAM, I have 64Gigs). I had one scene that rendered in RAM until I updated my driver, now it fits on the card.
...1 GB would barely be enough for a single clothed figure with hair lights, a simple backdrop and maybe a prop like a chair or table. The average size of the scenes I create (when the're not "epic level" ones) is in the 5 - 6 GB range.
I think the 980 ti is a very good IRay render card for the price right now. You can get one for around $400 on eBay. That's a pretty good price for 2816 CUDA cores and 6G of VRAM. I was looking at them back when they were $650 to $750 and up. I just didn't feel like spending that much. Now look at me. $425 is so cheap I bought two. LOL!