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RTX Cards?

DekeDeke Posts: 1,631
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Is there any advantage to the new RTX cards over a GTX 980 Ti for Iray rendering?  I'm not even sure the new RTX would work with an older mac tower.

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  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 100,833

    They are faster, and have more memory. At the moment the specific RTX features are not supported by DS, however, though someone posted in the DS reelase thread that the version of iray added in the Private Builds change log does have support for the new features (DS will work with RTX cards, however). I can't say anything about Mac compatibility, however.

  • rrwardrrward Posts: 556

    I ran into this a few years ago with my GTX 1080Ti card. In order to get it to work I ended up having install a supplimental PSU in one of my optical drive bays and do some horrrible cable management to get the power down to the card. Those supplimental PSUs seem to have vanished off the market in the last few years.

    I don't know how Apple and Nvidia are getting along now, but I waited a year for Apple to allow the release of 1080 drivers for Mac OS. By then I'd given up and moved to Windows.

    My reccomendation is to stick with the 980ti, or get a used 10x0 generation card that has the same power needs as the 980ti as you know that your machine will support it. The power plugs on the motherboard are really limited and overloading them will burn out your PSU. (Something I learned the hard way.)

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