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bryanll1bryanll1 Posts: 141
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Will a switch to a dedicated graphics card increase iray render speeds significantly?

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  • Matt_CastleMatt_Castle Posts: 3,010

    With the provisos that it's an Nvidia graphics card and it has enough VRAM for the scene in question, GPU rendering is a huge leap over CPU rendering.

  • ebergerlyebergerly Posts: 3,255

    Here's a chart showing relative render times for different models of NVIDIA cards rendering an Iray benchmark scene in Studio, with some recent prices

    BenchmarkNewestRTXCost.jpg
    540 x 576 - 69K
  • bryanll1bryanll1 Posts: 141
    I was thinking....NVIDIA - GeForce RTX 2080 Founders Edition 8GB GDDR6 PCI Express 3.0 Graphics Card
  • bryanll1bryanll1 Posts: 141
    I don't want to spend $800 on a card if it has little to no impact on times.
  • ebergerlyebergerly Posts: 3,255

    If you're thinking about a 2080 you might want to poke around this thread and see what people are finding for render results. Although it's a bit confusing since the RTX series isn't really ready for prime time right now as far as Iray goes. And to add to the complication there are now a few render benchmark scenes in the mix, so you have to do some detective work:

    https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/53771/iray-starter-scene-post-your-benchmarks#latest

  • Takeo.KenseiTakeo.Kensei Posts: 1,303

    I think you'll see something like 10x speedup with the actual state of software/drivers if you compare to CPU render

    That may become 20-100x in the future with RTX cards but there is nothing certain for DAZ Studio. RTX tech is still in heavy development

    Note that with RTX cards, you'll need to use the beta 4.11 of DS

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