I need a system upgrade...

nicstt

LeatherGryphon said:

Quick answer is: IRay rendering is helped most by a good modern NVidea video card with as much onboard video memory as you can afford.  6GB at least.  

Caveat: If your current system has a relatively modern motherboard and has enough space, power, and cooling for a good video card you might get away with just a video card upgrade.  HOWEVER,  the motherboard's CPU type should have at least 4-cores, preferaby more, should be clocked at at least 3.0Gb/sec and using enough  medium to high speed DDR4 RAM to avoid causing the system to substitute temporary disk storage for inadequate program RAM when running DAZ Studio or other graphic heavy applications.

Long answer: is probably avalanching into this thread from more knowlegeble people now.

 

 

I was rendering a scene yesterday - just a test as I was moving it to Blender.

It fit on my 980ti (which was a surprise), but Studio itself was using 28GB of system RAM - I have 64; I've know Studio use over 32GB.

nicstt

kenshaw011267 said:

I can see no benefit at the high end. However two 2070 Supers plus the NVLink is around $1100.

Even if you only get 14Gb of VRAM you also get 5120 CUDA which is very impressive for roughly the price of 1 2080ti.

Two very impressive paperweights when they don't fit on the cards

kenshaw011267

nicstt said:

kenshaw011267 said:

I can see no benefit at the high end. However two 2070 Supers plus the NVLink is around $1100.

Even if you only get 14Gb of VRAM you also get 5120 CUDA which is very impressive for roughly the price of 1 2080ti.

Two very impressive paperweights when they don't fit on the cards

$1100 is not very expensive. It may be out of your price range but I'm sitting on an order to provision 20 2U racks with dual Quadro 8000's for rendering. That's expensive.