RTX A6000 for Rendering
magog_a4eb71ab
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I might have the opportunity to get one of these instead of trying to get two RTX 3090 cards. Do the RTX A6000 cards work with Daz? If so, I might get one and also a much much lower end 3060 or 3070 to use as primary display.
Oh, forgot to mention, yes I render only in Iray, I do not use 3Delight.
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Yep, they work. There is a fella in the benchmark thread that has a couple of those in his rig.
...waiting for the "middle child" A5000, May actually be more affordable as well as available than a 3090 since the A6000 has a lower price than its predecessor, the Quadro RTX 6000. As the A6000 was also upgraded to 48 GB, the A5000 most likely will get 24 (though not as many cores as the 3090). Will mean I'll have to upgrade system memory again.
A couple? What kind of a rig do they have? One of my issues is finding a PCIe 4 motherboard that two 3 slot cards will fit on without blocking other slots. The A6000 is a 3-slot card. I want to be able to game on it as well, which means I don't want to go with a workstation. The most I'll ever use is 2 cards(non-SLI), one for rendering and the other for gaming.
https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/6642516/#Comment_6642516
They list their specs on that page. And a pic. It looks like a beast to me lol
...that's over 17,000$ just for the four A6000s
But only a 380 GB Asset drive, Optane as well (yes it may be fast but that isn't a lot of space for content, I'm already past half the cpacity my 2 TB drive and I don't have nearly as large a library/runtime as other "long timers" here do, nor have installed most of my Poser content and freebies [doing so as the need arises]).
OT: Crikey I'm getting a lot of Cloudflare gateway timeouts here lately. Anyone else experiencing the same?
Yep, timeouts here too past hour or so.
The A6000 is a dual slot card, NOT a 3 slot card. These are blower style cards made for workstation like purposes, so 3 slot cards make no sense. The blower style is also better when you use multiple cards because they eject air from the system rather than blowing on top of each other. A6000 (and many Quadros) are made to stack directly on top of each other, without hardly any gap between them. This is by design. They may not be using the name Quadro anymore, but the A6000 is a Quadro card.
The A6000 is actually slightly slower than the 3090 at Iray. We have found that VRAM speed does impact render speed by quite a bit, so the faster VRAM in the 3090 is likely the main difference between them. The 3090 is using GDDR6X while the A6000 is using standard GDDR6. There are several reasons for that. GDDR6X usues more power and also runs much hotter, not good in a multiGPU setup. But also GDDR6X is not available in larger the capacities needed to get 48GB worth of it on the A6000. As it is, the 3090 has 24 single GB chips on its board. That just wouldn't work for the A6000.