Hardware Requirements for a PC to run only DAZ3d
roshand13
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Hello Guys i am looking to replace my old dell workstation. Could you guys sujjest pc that would make quick work at rendering in DAZ.
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For Daz Studio the ideal part is a good (lots of memory) nVidia RTX graphics card, plus enough system memory to handle both the scene in Daz Srtudio and the data to be sent to Iray. CPU is less important using Iray, as long as your scenes don't exceed the available memory, and dForce but is used if the graphics card runs out of memory or for 3Delight. Content wil potentially eat up a lot of disc space - I think it's fair to say that most people find a high-capacity mechanical HD best. Without more detail on your budget and the sort of scenes you render it's hard to be more precise.
If you have atleast 16 gigs of RAM and a Nvidia RTX 3060 card you can have decent completed renders in about 2 minutes. More RAM (say 32 gigs) and a faster card (3070-3090) the render times would be shorter.
The concensus is that there should be three times more RAM than VRAM, 16GB's of RAM is not much.
What's the difference between Nvidia RTX 3060 and Nvidia RTX 3060 Ti?
The RTX 3060 Ti has just 8GB's of VRAM as the RTX 3060 has 12GB's
at least two pci express slots with enough room for double wide cards.
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I built my machine before (just) iray arrived so I got dual xeons and 64g of ram. (and at that point a 980 ti 6g.. should have gotten the 12
Daz doesn't use the cpus (unless it's a 3dl render) and the only time the ram has been stressed was when I forgot to reset the speed setting for using ultra
but I can have both my titanX and the 980 in the machine at the same time and if the spacing had been right a third video card ... could do it but have to use riser cables etc.
but when I get the money for a 3080 or better the card will drop right in.
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even if you don't feel positive about building your own... check to see if a friend does.
when I did mine (this is not a mac bash but that was my comparison at the time)
the mac pro tower was $2000 for a e1630v2 16g ddr3 and 4g of vram memory was 4 x 4 in 4 slots so you had to dump ram to upgrade
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my machine asus server board $500 est cost of one 2630v3 $800* 64 g ddr4 4x16 in 4 of available 16 slots $450 and $500 for the 980ti
*I ended up getting two of the 2630v3 for $650 on ebay (i figured that one ... I'd never had an intel processor die and two if I lost one I'd still be equal to just having one (6 years and both are still chugging along)
If you're anywhere with used computer places I got my thermaltake server case used for $25
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with dell and some others you used to get issues with upgrading systems or restores because they tend to put a proprietary file on the hard disk
Hi!
Which matters most during rendering? The number of cuda cores or the size of VRAM?
For example:
3584 cuda cores with 12 GB VRAM vs. 4864 cuda cores with 8GB VRAM?
Thank you!
Amount of VRAM is pretty important as if your scene doesn't fit in the card VRAM then the card can't be used at all.
If the scene fits and you can use the GPU to render, more CUDA cores (when comparing cards of the same generation) means it will render faster.
If you tend to create memory heavy scenes which use lots of elements / textures for example, go for more VRAM.
With the newest versions of DS, using assets released within the last 2 years, 8GB's of VRAM is very limiting. The speed difference is negligible, so why pay more for less?
Do not go to the gaming community for advice on this, as DS is nothing like a game.