OT: What is, not worrying about price the BEST GPU for Iray?
FWIW
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Trying to settle something. If money were no issue at all, you had just infinite resources, what would be the BEST GPU for iray?
(Secondary what would be the BEST GPU for gaming?)
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Hmmm...
I've been giving the Quadro P6000 some serious thought, due to the fact that it has 24 GB of VRAM (this card is in the $5k range). I'm running dual 1080s now (8 GB VRAM ea, 6.4 available in Windows 10 due to the rest being 'reserved'), and max out the memory fairly regularly, dropping renders to CPU only. I do fairly complex scenes with multiple characters though, for more simple stuff a 1080 is plenty.
Best Bang for the Buck used to be the 1080 Ti (with 11 GB of VRAM), but prices have been a little insane lately. Great gaming card too.
Not sure what the fastest card is these days for rendering (Titan V?), but keep in mind that NVidia will be releasing new cards in the next few months, so it might pay to wait to see the new offerings before picking one...
Here's a Titan V review:
As for the 'next gen cards', April 12th was rumored for the first Ampere card from NVidia, but that's just a rumor. Mid/late-Mid year seems to be the more reasonable estimate for the new lineups.
The limiting factor is VRAM, so yea, go for something with 24gb.. might not be the fastest, but the most versatile. Then if money truly wasn't an object, get more of them for speeed.
And yea, I think the Titan V is the 'fastest' for gaming, certainly in a single card config.. maybe get 2 just to be super sure ;)
...that's why if ever get the funds, I would build or purchase a refurbished duo high core CPU workstation with a boatload of memory. May not be as lightning fast as GPU rendering, but I'd have little worry about running out of memory. A couple slightly older 10 or 12 core Xeons and 128 - 256 GB of 4 channel DDR3 would be very sufficient. As I mentioned on another thread I don't need to render something in under 5 min as I don't do animation, but such a system would still reduce those big Iray render jobs to a much more manageable time frame.
Of course once that mega shader system for 3DL is released, it may be a game changer and make this whole GPU pricing fiasco moot.
I have made the first step towards buying my dream render box - dual 10-core Xenons + 2 x Titan V . . . and that is, buy a lotto ticket. Next week, having discovered I bought the wrong lotto ticket, I shall start again . . .
Yeah probably stick in a few P6000
I was thinking Titan V for gaming and two P6000's for rendering. Since I keep seeing people with three GPU's that don't match and I know you can configure specific applications to use specific GPU's. (Thanks to various threads on the forum for that) and possibly a dual CPU system just to be sure. I used one of those design your dream system kind of things (combining PC Parts Picker to be sure the parts were compatible) and ended up with a $15,000 PC lol.
A Titan V uses a new archatecture called Volta... Is that supported by DAZ studio? I remember it took a long time before Pascal was supported.
...not sure. Geez if I had 13,000$ to build a workstation? I'd just go for higher core count Xeons and more memory. Big scenes at ultra high quality and large resolution eat memory for brekkie and even a P6000 could sweat bullets.
...I'm just looking at dual 10 - 12 core Xeons and a boatload of memory. Still need that winning Megabucks ticket but don't have to match all 6 numbers to get it.
I'm looking into buying an eGPU for my iMac Pro, but from what I've seen so far, the best I can get is a 1080 Ti in one of those. More research needed.
I keep forgetting to ask them to push the "winning" key when they punch in the ticket request....
But yeah, dual Titans would be amazing, if IRAY supports it of course. The new (newer than IRAY) NVIDIA real-time render technology they just announced is written for VOLTA GPUs.
However, the improvements in denoising, render times, etc. in the upcoming OCTANE 4.0 may make this kind of power much less necessary.
...hehheh, same here
I've been hoping to find someone I could ask - Do you see a meaningful increase in rendering speed going from one 1080 to two?
There is a benchmark thread with results. There is a clear speed increase with two cards of almost any type.