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Anybody else using GTX 1660 card?

pctech4nypctech4ny Posts: 184
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I think I've upgraded my aging Windows 7 desktop as far as it will go. I ended up choosing a GTX 1660 for the GPU due to space limitations (and it BARELY fits).

So is anybody else using a GTX 1660?

One thing I've found is that the speed of the GPU must be pretty well matched to my i7-3770 3.40 GHz CPU (which was pretty hot stuff back when PC built in 2012).

I've tried rendering in Iray both with and without the CPU checked, and it really makes no difference in total time (for instance one was only 3 minutes difference in a 2+ hour render, and with the CPU was 3 minutes FASTER than GPU only).

Or is there some other setting I could change to see if anything might be faster with only the GPU doing the rendering?

(Right now I'm testing out the Muelsfell Modular Red Rock Canyon and boy does it look gorgeous, but takes a LONG TIME. Only got to 80% converged before hitting the default 5000 iterations after 1 hour 4 minutes. I see it says it's got lower-resolution textures included; maybe I should try those out before adding in any characters to my scene?)

 

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  • RayDAntRayDAnt Posts: 1,155
    pctech4ny said:

    I think I've upgraded my aging Windows 7 desktop as far as it will go. I ended up choosing a GTX 1660 for the GPU due to space limitations (and it BARELY fits).

    So is anybody else using a GTX 1660?

    Pretty sure you're the first! (at least in these parts.)

    Speaking of which - any chance you could donate some iterations to running a benchmark or two to help document how well it performs compared to its brethren?

  • BejaymacBejaymac Posts: 1,945

    Got an ASUS prebuilt last month, it has a GTX 1660 ti, tried SY's old Iray benchmark when I first got it, blew through it in just over a minute, even tried that RTX benchmark (same chipset as the RTX), but gave up after about 20 minutes with it at about 70%, as I had other things to do.

    All of the games I play can now be ran flat out and boy do they look good, so I'm happy as hell with minesmiley

  • 3WC3WC Posts: 1,142

    I've got one. Haven't done any official benchmarks, but it is much faster than CPU renders.

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