AMD 9060 XT and just general rendering question
Thomaslazz_8c99518003
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I have an older pc and it usually takes me bvetween 20 minutes and ahour and a half to render. My current applicable specs are as follows: 16MB Ram, Nvidia Geforce GTX 1070 TI with 4gig ram, Intel i7-6700K CPU with 4 cores and 8 threads.
I am looking to upgrade to 32 gig of ram (Minimum) and a AMD 9060 XT GPU with 16 gig of ram, and probably an AMD RYzen 7 7700X 8 core computer (At least).
What kind of improvement can I expect? IS anyone else using the 9060 XT 16 Gig of ram GPU? My computer is literally like 12 years old. I upgraded to the 1070 TI years ago.
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An AMD GPU will not be used at all for Iray rendering, only Nvidia GPU can be used by Iray.
The rest of it would work for rendering right? Or are you saying I wont be able to use Daz Studio at all if I choose AMD?
You'll be able to still use Studio, but as leana points out, you'll be limited to cpu only rendering if the AMD gpu is the only one in the system.
If you put the 1070 as a secondary gpu in your system you can use it for rendering with Iray.
Mixing gpus like this can cause issues, but as long as you don't connect a monitor to the 1070 you should be ok.
Without a nvidia card iray will render with the CPU, it is slower but it has the advantage that you use the system ram instead of the gpu vram, so it can handle larger scenes. However the iray denoiser doesn't work with the CPU so you will have to denoise in post processing, or use a high convergence when rendering so the denoiser is not needed.
Compared to what you are currently using you'll definitely see some improvement -- espcially in terms of the complexity of the scenes you'll be able to manage.
As pointed out, however, if you really want to get performance in rendering speed, you'll probably be better off going with a nVIDIA GPU, which will still work fine with the Ryzen CPU. Looking at prices today (9/4/2025), it about $100 difference between the AMD 9060 XT and an nVIDIA equivalent, the GeForce RTX 5060 Ti. If you can swing it, might be worth the $100 for GPU rendering speed as the complexity of scenes that your upgraded PC can handle goes up.
CPU rendering is much, much slower than even your current GPU
As others have put, to do iRay on a GPU it must be an Nvidia
The series you use (30x / 40x / 50x) doesn't matter so much (you will get somewhat better render times the newer series you use) HOWEVER Daz 4.2x won't do iRay on a 50x series... Daz 2025 will but most plugins/scripts don't yet wortk with it (there's a workaround = use 4.2x to build scenes and 2025 to render).
For "complex scenes" - lots of figures, or heavy sets or fantastical costumes etc etc - what matters is your VRAM (the ram on your GPU). Big Memory GPUs are expensive, so getting good with https://www.daz3d.com/scene-optimizer and/or doing similar things manually, will save you some $/£
eBay for 2nd hand cards (your mileage may vary) if you want the older series... but you're better futureproofed with a 40x or even more so a 50x (with the Daz workaround) especially if Nvidia decides to start adding new functionality only to newer cards.
Use diffeormatic Daz to Blender bridge and render in Blender. Follow this install instructions>>
Interesting! Thanks for the help everyone! I ight have to go Nvidia then
Also, remember that the only version of DS you'll be able to use for rendering with an RTX5060 at the moment is the DAZ Studio 6.2025 alpha. The DAZ Studio 4.xx series is incompatible with the nVidia 50xx series drivers on a binary level. You can use either DS4.xx or DS6.2025 to create the scene, but you'll only be able to get the 5060 to work with DS 6.2025. It's hoped that the DS6.2025 will move out of the alpha stage soon. There are a number of things you can't do yet in the Alpha and plugins don't yet work with it (will have to be re-compiled anyway).
It feels like an unfortunate time to be having to change a PC, TBH.
Regards,
Richard
Indeed. I'm holding off on a new machine (Fast Ryzen 9 CPU, nVidia GPU with 32GB VRAM) until DS supports that hardware. Meanwhile reasonably happy with my current AMD CPU (12 core/24 thread) for still renders, even though DS does not use my couple of generations old nVidia GPU (2GB VRAM I think). Renders average maybe 30 minutes for a large scene, so I use another machine to surf while it renders.