Will NVIDIA Quadro P1000 Work with DS and Iray?

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• Leana Posts: 12,748

  October 6

  From what I can see, NVIDIA Quadro P1000 is a Pascal GPU with 4GB VRAM.
  AFAIK Pascal cards are still supported (though deprecated in the recent versions of Iray DS2025 uses), but 4GB is really quite small, especially for a non-RTX card.
• Richard Haseltine Posts: 107,945

  October 6

  As Leana says, memory is the main issue - even my 1650 Super, with 6GB, drops out doing a single, nude, bald Genesis 9 - your card, with 2GB less, probably wouldn't handle more than a collection of primitives.
• Brian&Alicia Posts: 246

  October 6

  miladyderyni_173d399f47 said:

  As some of you may have read my 10 year old laptop suddenly died and we are looking for a very inexpensive replacement until we can afford to splurge, hopefully next year. Right now we have a minimal budget after we had to replace our totaled car.)

  I've found a Dell Precision (refurbished with guarantee) that seems like it will suit my needs but I wanted to check in here to make sure this laptop, especially the graphics card, really does play well with Daz & Iray. Specs are i7-8850H CPU (hexa-core 2.6 GHz), NVIDIA Quadro P1000 GPU, 16GB DDR4 RAM, 512 GB SSD, Win10 Pro 64.

  This is a step up, at least, from my crochety but faithful ASUS, with i7-6500U CPU & NVIDIA GeForce 940M GPU. 

  Should we go for it?

  I use my CPU and system ram for rendering. Even though I have a rtx 3090 with 24gb vram. My scenes easily exceed that. And I end up using CPU and system ram anyhow. It take a little longer to render. But I personally don't think it's too bad. Typically less then an hour to render most images With a ryzen 7900x 12c,24t CPU.
• butterflyfish Posts: 1,482

  October 6

  I used to have a GTX 1050ti 4GB. DS never used it. 
• miladyderyni_173d399f47 Posts: 2,404

  October 6

  Richard Haseltine said:

  As Leana says, memory is the main issue - even my 1650 Super, with 6GB, drops out doing a single, nude, bald Genesis 9 - your card, with 2GB less, probably wouldn't handle more than a collection of primitives.

  Wow, thanks for all the responses. The forum users here are the best.

  My old laptop usually rendered with CPU, so that's not much of an issue for me. Which might keep the Dell in the running.

  Remember, this is an interim solution, so I don't have to put a hobby on hold for 6+ months while we save & pay down some bills. We'll also use it for gaming. (There's several titles my husband's laptop won't run well/at all.) There is a 30 day return/replacement guarantee.

  If anyone has more suggestions of chips or models, please tell me.
• ed3D Posts: 2,470

  October 7 edited October 7

  .. is  this  from  Dell  ??

  Dell Outlet: Certified Refurbished Laptops, Desktops & Monitors

  https://www.dell.com/en-us/dfh/lp/outlet

  Post edited by ed3D on October 7
• miladyderyni_173d399f47 Posts: 2,404

  October 9

  ed3D said:

  .. is  this  from  Dell  ??

  Dell Outlet: Certified Refurbished Laptops, Desktops & Monitors

  https://www.dell.com/en-us/dfh/lp/outlet

  The ones I am looking at are on Amazon, due to budget. 
• ed3D Posts: 2,470

  October 9 edited October 9

  miladyderyni_173d399f47 said:

  ed3D said:

  .. is  this  from  Dell  ??

  Dell Outlet: Certified Refurbished Laptops, Desktops & Monitors

  https://www.dell.com/en-us/dfh/lp/outlet

  The ones I am looking at are on Amazon, due to budget. 

  alrite  then -  Thought  the  Dell  worth  mentioning  + 

  Post edited by ed3D on October 9
• Cam Fox Posts: 254

  October 9

  miladyderyni_173d399f47 said:

  As some of you may have read my 10 year old laptop suddenly died and we are looking for a very inexpensive replacement until we can afford to splurge, hopefully next year. Right now we have a minimal budget after we had to replace our totaled car.)

  I've found a Dell Precision (refurbished with guarantee) that seems like it will suit my needs but I wanted to check in here to make sure this laptop, especially the graphics card, really does play well with Daz & Iray. Specs are i7-8850H CPU (hexa-core 2.6 GHz), NVIDIA Quadro P1000 GPU, 16GB DDR4 RAM, 512 GB SSD, Win10 Pro 64.

  This is a step up, at least, from my crochety but faithful ASUS, with i7-6500U CPU & NVIDIA GeForce 940M GPU. 

  Should we go for it?

  You need an NVidia card to use GPU for Iray renders, otherwise Daz will fall back to CPU, which rules out AMD offerings which are otherwise quite competitive. If you have access to an NVidia graphics card from somewhere, I would suggest exploring a Beelink mini PC with EX Dock as an alternative to a refurbished non-gaming desktop or laptop. (search "Beelink GTi12 + EX Dock Review" on Youtube to see what that's about)

  From specs I found:

  • GeForce 940M:
    • A mobile graphics chip (soldered to the motherboard) that provides 2GB of 900 MHz DDR3 on a PCI-Express 3.0 x8 interface, 384 cuda cores.
    • Shader Model 6.7, OpenGL 4.6, DirectX 12, Vulkan 1.3, OpenCL 3.0
  • Quadro P1000
    • A dedicated GPU (on its own removable graphics card) that provides 4GB of 1266 MHz GDDR5 on a PCI Express 3.0 x16 interface, 640 cuda cores.
    • Shader Model 5.1, OpenGL 4.54, DirectX 12, Vulkan 1.0

  I can't speak to the Shader Model / API support, (I think it matters for performance optimizations and compatibility?) but from the rest of the specs the Quadro P1000 is close to double the memory size (2GB vs 4GB), 40% faster memory clockspeed (900 MHz vs 1266 MHz), 67% more cuda cores (384 vs 640, these increase Iray render speed if the scene fits in memory), double the PCI-E 3.0 bandwidth (x8 vs x16, IF the motherboard supports the full 16x bandwidth that means apps can push data onto the GPU faster), so it would be a solid graphical upgrade from your prior system. The rest of the specs look on-par.
• NylonGirl Posts: 2,203

  October 10

  My laptop, that I still use now, has a mobile GTX 1050. Or maybe 1060, I don't know. But it has 4 GB of video RAM and I'm able to fit three Genesis 8 characters with hair and an HDRI.