What is the best GPU i can buy now for Daz ?
adam.mark20007
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I have 3060ti .I want to upgrade to at least to a 16GB .Does daz support 50 series ? if not what is the best value for the money?
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The DS6 Alpha does support the RTX 50 Series, but the Alpha is not yet feature complete and there is no published timeline for when it will be.
Personally, my recommendation is that the only one of the 50 series cards that provides a significant bonus over the equivalent 40 Super card is the 5090. Most of the others seem to provide only a modest boost to Iray, maybe as much as 20%, and do so at the cost of more power consumption. (Most of the 50 series's claimed gains for gaming are achieved with AI frame generation, not of relevance to Iray).
If you're not going for the 5090 (and that's exorbitantly expensive), then unless gaming performance is a considerable concern, then right now I'd recommend looking at the 40 Super series if you can get your hands on it.
The GPU market is incredibly unfavorable currently. If you must however, the only reasonable priced 16GB GPUs are 5060Ti series at $450-$600. The cheapest 16GB 4000 series on pcpartpicker.com is a 4060Ti at $736.90, that is massively over-priced IMHO.
If I had to upgrade/replace a GPU now I would go with an MSI 5060Ti and commit to using Daz Studio Alpha that supports 5000 series GPUs.
Take this idea wiht a hefty number of grains of salt. But buying "fast" computer with a 3060 or even two of them and having them remotely render while you use your current computer to make scene files might be the "best" and "cheapest" option. Assuming you need to get many renders per day completed.
Have you looked at RTX 4000 Ada Generation? It's not for gamers, but with 20 GB VRAM, single slot, 130 W TDP, you don't have to buy a small power plant to run it. And, yes, it renders Iray in DS 4.24 and DS 6 2025, no problem. It was a big step up from my old GTX 1080...
If you are planning to get into generative AI, the 5000 series may be a better choice. You will just have to deal with many existing scripts not working with DS 2025
Do scene creation in DS 4, using CPU rendering to preview, then send it over to DS 6 for rendering - the only thing that won't transfer, unless you are a Premier member with Geometry Sculptor installed, is Mesh grabber Modifiers: those will have to be baked down to morphs in DS 4.