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DAZ 4.12 And older video cards

jp1851jp1851 Posts: 30
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Will DAZ 4.12 show improved rendering time with older graphic cards or just with the newer RTX cards. I have a 3yr old GTX TITAN, 6 GIG card , will my render time benifit from this version ?

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  • SevrinSevrin Posts: 6,313

    Yeah, even older cards are benefitting.

  • kenshaw011267kenshaw011267 Posts: 3,805

    Just keep in mind the version of Iray in 4.12 doesn't support Kepler or older microarchitectures.

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 108,149

    ...as long as they meet the minimum requirements, of course - my 750Ti still works (slowly).

  • LinwellyLinwelly Posts: 6,055
    kenshaw011267 said:

    Just keep in mind the version of Iray in 4.12 doesn't support Kepler or older microarchitectures.

    can you elaborate?

  • Noah LGPNoah LGP Posts: 2,617
    edited September 2019

    After the 4.11 issues with my old GeForce GTX 960, I doubt 4.12 will do it better.

    I keep 4.10 until I buy a new computer.

    Post edited by Noah LGP on
  • kenshaw011267kenshaw011267 Posts: 3,805
    Linwelly said:
    kenshaw011267 said:

    Just keep in mind the version of Iray in 4.12 doesn't support Kepler or older microarchitectures.

    can you elaborate?

    My bad, support for Kepler and older cards is deprecated and expected to be removed in the next major iRay release. No idea when that will happen.

  • JamesJABJamesJAB Posts: 1,766

    Iray no longer supports Fermi cards. (GTX 4XX, GTX 5XX and some of the lower end 600 and 700 cards)

    Kepler cards are still supported, Nvidia has not announced any end of Iray support.  They have howerver stopped publishing new drivers for them.

  • kenshaw011267kenshaw011267 Posts: 3,805
    JamesJAB said:

    Iray no longer supports Fermi cards. (GTX 4XX, GTX 5XX and some of the lower end 600 and 700 cards)

    Kepler cards are still supported, Nvidia has not announced any end of Iray support.  They have howerver stopped publishing new drivers for them.

    From:

    https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/335016/daz-studio-pro-4-12-nvidia-iray#latest

    Iray RTX 2019.1 Beta, build 317500.683

    Known Issues and Restrictions

    Support for SM 3.X/Kepler generation GPUs is marked as deprecated, and it will most likely be removed with the next major release.

  • outrider42outrider42 Posts: 3,679
    edited September 2019
    kenshaw011267 said:
    JamesJAB said:

    Iray no longer supports Fermi cards. (GTX 4XX, GTX 5XX and some of the lower end 600 and 700 cards)

    Kepler cards are still supported, Nvidia has not announced any end of Iray support.  They have howerver stopped publishing new drivers for them.

    From:

    https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/335016/daz-studio-pro-4-12-nvidia-iray#latest

    Iray RTX 2019.1 Beta, build 317500.683

    Known Issues and Restrictions

    Support for SM 3.X/Kepler generation GPUs is marked as deprecated, and it will most likely be removed with the next major release.

    This is straight from Iray's own dev log, so it is quite likely true. This is very bad news because there are still plenty of Kepler based cards out there. IMO this way different from when Fermi support ended. Fermi had long been discarded from primary use when the hammer fell. They were barely adequate for Iray or anything, and it wasn't a big deal.

    But Kepler is different. Kepler was a massive success and extremely popular. Kepler was when Nvidia began to really pull ahead of AMD in the GPU race. Kepler also introduced the first Titans and the concept of a x80ti, so there are Kepler GTX cards that have 6GB of VRAM, which isn't half bad. That doesn't even count the Quadro lineup, which featured cards with up to 12GB of VRAM. Kepler also hung around for a second product line, covering not just the 600 series, but most of the 700 series as well. So by killing support Nvidia is killing off 2 whole generations of cards.

    Fortunately for Richard the 750ti is actually a Maxwell based card. It was in fact the very first Maxwell based card to be released. So the 750ti is still safe for a while even after Iray kills off Kepler. However the 750ti is an exception to the rest of 700 series.
    Post edited by outrider42 on
  • fastbike1fastbike1 Posts: 4,078

    FWIW, I get about a 20% improvement in render speed with my 980TI, compared to 4.11.

  • PadonePadone Posts: 4,017
    edited September 2019
    fastbike1 said:

    FWIW, I get about a 20% improvement in render speed with my 980TI, compared to 4.11.

    I get a 20% speed bonus when I activate optix in 4.11, so it's probably that 4.12 just always use optix.

    Post edited by Padone on
  • ScoopeyScoopey Posts: 190

    I have a laptop with twin GT755M's - Daz Studio 4.12 is abysmal compared to 4.11 - I get a 50% slower render time as NVidia no longer go past 425.xx.
    I guess we are in the realms of Daz3d/NVidea rubbing each others backs and waiting for the cash to roll in.
    Sorry can't afford to buy another laptop for another 2 years...or if I did I can't buy anything from Daz!

  • Ich_2114687Ich_2114687 Posts: 6

    That sounds really cool for my 230GT ... YAY

    DAZ? Please send me a Special Gift Code for a new Computer!
    Don´t need a super-mega-ultra-high-end PC, an ultra high-end is enough.
    Thanks! angel

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