Need advice for equipment upgrade
blaskure2
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Zotac rtx 2060 6gb gpu
Ryzen 5 2600 3.4 ghz
16 gb ram
this is my setup
not bad ofc but still too slow for me.
I have 500 dolar right now
which part i should upgrade ?
my opinon 2nd rtx 2060 but i'm not expert pls help me with ur ideas
thank you :)
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If you're into Iray then I would advise a bigger GPU with a wee bit more memory. 6GB cards are not to be sniffed at but 8GB is better. If you do add a second GPU, make sure your power supply is up to the job - an overloaded PSU is not your friend..
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More RAM. You'll never experience the full potential of your processor unless you max out on RAM. I have an i7 with 32 GB of RAM which seems to be near optimal. Don't have any experience with Ryzen cores but if I were to upgrade to an i9 I would get at least get 128 GB. 3d industry professionals have twice that amount.
If you're not into games or GPU rendering I can't see a reason to why upgrade your GPU.
16Gb of RAM is fine.
Adding a GPU is your best option for improving render speed in iRay. I'd lean heavily towards something between a 2060 Super and 2070 Super (which is priced right at $500).
thanks for comments guys
firstly i'll change my motherboard to this ; MSI B450 Tomahawk Max AMD B450 4133MHz DDR4 Soket AM4 ATX
and i'll add 2 pieces 8 gb ram
2nd gpu is unnecessary i guess i understand that
but ram and motherboard is enough? what about my cpu , should i upgrade it ?
now i'm confused....
more ram or 2nd gpu ....
It is interconnected if you add a new gpu you will need more ram and a more powerfull powersupply. Daz studio will not go faster with a more powerfull setup it still has alot of bottlenecks. If you have not already upgrade to ssd do so, and I would install content on secondary hd. Honestly, you have a strong enough system for rendering iray or 3delight. I would just stop renders at 2 min and denoise. I would do background render in 3delight and main charcter in iray and composit in photoshop. You would need alot of vram to fit whole scene in vram and using tools to do this is a pain so I just composit. Win10 is a memory hog and a resource hog so more memory and a ssd if you don't have one and you should be set.
I've been using a 980ti (6GB) since it was new; it isn't enough.
And now Windows steals so much RAM from consumer cards, it is event less than it used to be.
NO! 16 Gb is fine for an 8Gb card. The only reason to increase the RAM is if the op gets an 11GB or larger card.
His setup is fine for running DS. Improving render speed is about the only possible performance bump he can get.
Agree that 16 Gb is fine for an 8 Gb card, however, there may be other, valid, non-DS performance related reasons to increase RAM.
the DS4.12 beta has made drastic improvements to my 1660ti (6gb) card in previewing but the work I do far exceeds 6gb when I start to render so the CPU is doing the heavy lifting at that point.
if you plan to do small projects, portraits a 1600 or 2000 series is very impressive. the price jump from 6 to 8 gb at the time was not worth it to me but if it's not a cost factor I'd go with 8 GB GPU RAM. Crazy thing is the price of my card went up and has stayed up in the past 6 months so watch what you're paying for.
having 8GB of system RAM (what the CPU uses) would be bottleneck. I'd do 16 at the very least.
I was using an 980ti 6g when I started with iray... didn't have the bucks for the 12 g at that point in time
but just last fall I was looking at the 1180 and 2080 etc. and at the prices
And found a titanx 12g for $440 on ebay... t he 1180 and 2080 or 2180 seem to have 11g
does that make a difference only if your scene uses 11800m of gram.
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I would guess it's half as fast as the newer top of the line but has close to the same number of cudas
and the price made it a worthwhile trade off... my machine is smart enough that I can start a render and then go FB or online game while it's rendering.