Graphics card only for rendering

WendyLuvsCatz

I am buying a cheap Ryzen 3 3200g to stick my 980ti in for rendering because I damaged my motherboard on my better intel i7 CPU Win7 rendering machine,

it works but I cannot mount a graphics card anymore, will be my modeling and music workstation PC.

Also the cheap Ryzen is Windows 10 which I shall need in future,

Now it comes with a nice Vega inbuilt graphics I was thinking I could use for my monitors and what games I play and save my 980ti for rendering only, less wear on my 5 year old card I am porting over to it.

I know with a monitor on the motherboard enabled in the BIOS DAZ studio and Octane sees both if one plugged into it and most my software still uses it even though not my main monitor but what if I don't plug any monitors into it (except to update GeForce Experience obviously) will they still detect it?

I really want to dedicate as much VRAM as I can to rendering and not waste any driving my monitors.

WendyLuvsCatz

I guess I will find out once I get the computer then I can tell everyone else considering it 

I have a feeling it will depend on what my software allows, iClone for example will only use the GPU the active monitor is plugged into, DAZ studio and Octane render may have a dropdown menu if they see the other card

kenshaw011267

Consumer cards, like the 980ti, will always have a certain amount of VRAM reserved. This cannot be changed for those cards.

Padone

You may try reserving the gtx for physx only in the driver panel. Anyway if you don't plug the monitor to the card the vram allocated by windows is minimal.

I also have a vega for the viewport and a gtx for rendering and it works fine. You have to install the gtx last for it to be used as opencl device, since amd and nvidia overwrite each other. Or you can fix the registry to use both of them.

https://community.amd.com/message/2909519

WendyLuvsCatz

Padone said:

You may try reserving the gtx for physx only in the driver panel. Anyway if you don't plug the monitor to the card the vram allocated by windows is minimal.

I also have a vega for the viewport and a gtx for rendering and it works fine. You have to install the gtx last for it to be used as opencl device, since amd and nvidia overwrite each other. Or you can fix the registry to use both of them.

https://community.amd.com/message/2909519

thanks for that useful information, when I collect my PC I will ask the shop too but as long as I back up everything I might try the registry key thing too if I find I need the PhysX and opencl options

rrward

When you get the Nvidia drives go for the Studio Driver version as this is aimed at content creators ans doesn't came with all the game-related bells and whistles. And yes, Windows will detect the video card even if there isn't anything plugged into it (unlike Mac OS which won't initialize CUDA if you monitor is plugged only into an AMD card).