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Best cards to render with?

RemmerRemmer Posts: 15
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Hi guys not sure if this is the right category but basically I have a budget of £1,100 and looking into getting the best performance for IRAY rendering out of Daz, I previously had a 1080ti but gotten rid of that and wanted to know a few things..

1) is it better running 2 cards as opposed to one?

2) What would be the best for my budget to have the fastest times?

 

My current setup is an i7 8086k OC'ed to 5Ghz on all cores

16gb DDR4 Corsair Vengeance 3166Mhz

 

I am looking to render 1080p stills but unsure if 2 cards makes a difference as opposed to one..

 

 

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  • fred9803fred9803 Posts: 1,565

    Look through a few recent threads about GPUs and multi-card setups. There's been quite a lot of good info. regarding these two issues.

  • RemmerRemmer Posts: 15

    Okay I've currently got the idea of either 2x GTX 1070ti's or IF IT WOULD WORK 2x RTX 2070's?

  • kenshaw011267kenshaw011267 Posts: 3,805

    For pure speed the 2x2070's would be faster. The 1080ti that you got rid of would have held larger scenes though.

  • RemmerRemmer Posts: 15

    Cheers Kenshaw, I was just unsure of the 2x 2070's as they don't SLi but recently found out you don't need that to run two cards for rendering, just plug and play basically.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,044

    ....I keep wondering if paying double for just an uptick in rendering speed is worth it.  2070s are priced around 500$.  That means to reduce time by 80% it will cost 1,000$.  I'd put 200$ more into the idea and get a single 2080Ti. which is faster than the 1080Ti. and you still have 11 instead of 8 GB of VRAM.

  • kenshaw011267kenshaw011267 Posts: 3,805
    kyoto kid said:

    ....I keep wondering if paying double for just an uptick in rendering speed is worth it.  2070s are priced around 500$.  That means to reduce time by 80% it will cost 1,000$.  I'd put 200$ more into the idea and get a single 2080Ti. which is faster than the 1080Ti. and you still have 11 instead of 8 GB of VRAM.

    I would too tbh. for the time being I'm sticking with my 1080ti.

  • JVRendererJVRenderer Posts: 664

    I have a similar setup, but I didn't get rid of the 1080Ti card. I just added a RTX2080Ti card. They both work well with Iray n Octane.

    see specs on my sig. below.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,044

    ...that's quite the rig.  Between two systems I have I don't have that much memory (CPUs, memory, and GPUs are also older generation).  I'd need to hit tonights' Megabucks for something like that.

  • kenshaw011267kenshaw011267 Posts: 3,805

    That WD gold. You really wanted the helium sealed HDD I guess. 

    I stayed with the 6 Gb WD Black. It cost about half what the 8 Gb Gold costs. So I figure if I ever fill it up adding more won't be too painful.

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