New Question For y'all, Best Graphics Card ??
jubie
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So, just thinking of spending more money to speed things up, lol lol lol ....just bought at new Desktop, its got a Nvidia GTX 2070 Graphics card,
What do you all think is "THE BEST" Graphics Card out there in 2020 for the fastest 3d rendering for stills and animation, people are telling me a Titan, but which Titan...? , but I am also reading for the money a Nvidia RTX 2080 TI is pretty dam good as well and half the money.
I will take everyones thoughts on this,
Thank You
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In consumer cards the RTX Titan and 2080ti are pretty close for rendering performance. The RTX Titan simply has more than double the VRAM which will give you the ability to render really big scenes (as would the RTX Quadro 8000 which doubles the VRAM of the Titan).
A 2070 is a pretty good card and isnt anything to dismiss. The 2080i series is the best, but still your 2070 is darn good too.
If you're only going to use one consumer GPU, right now it's the RTX Titan. I had some compatibility issues and ultimately returned them, but my man they were stupid fast and once I had 4 subdivided figures, with hair, complicated architecture, and the Titans just didn't seem to notice at all...
I've come to value VRAM capacity over speed, and so I'm really waiting with interest to see what the 3080ti looks like, which might come with 20 gigs.
I would not hold off on any purchases waiting for Ampere. With the production delays due to Covid-19 it is very unlikely that we'll see any Ampere cards before Xmas or next year.
Nvidia seemed poised to finally announce them at GTC but have now said they will wait to announce whatever they had planned for GTC.
Also VRAM is just too expensive, and games just don't need that sort of quantity, so putting 20Gb on the flagship would probably cause it to have a higher price than the 2080ti which has sold badly due to its price.
Hmmm
so , For Rendering 3D Stills and Rendering 3D Animations would you go Nvidia Titan RTX or Nvidia Geforce RTX 2080 TI ...?
That depends on the content used (both what and how much), the resolution of the render, and (possibly ifluenced by the resolution) how much you are prepared to shrink the texture maps
For stills I'd go for the 2080ti unless your scenes are flipping huge.
For animation you'd probably be more productive with two cheaper cards. The 2070 Super is $500 so 2 of them is cheaper than a single 2080ti. A 2080ti has 4352 CUDA. 2x 2070 Supers have 5120.
You'd have less usable VRAM, until VRAM pooling is available in the next release (if it works), but animation can get by with muchlower res textures.
The absolute beast for single card solution, Quadro GV100.
32GB HBM2 memory, 5120 cuda@1132/1627ghz, 250w tdp.
Supports NVlink as well(gen2), with a dual link capability for almost double the speed of the current gen rtx cards.
$10k on ebay, used.
Okay Dumb question, are my ASUS GTX 1080 TI cards able to keep up with renders now? Or is it time to buy new cards?
They're fine. I'm running a 1080ti and a 2070 and I have no problems.
For that money you can get 2 Quadro 8000's. You got to have some perspective.
Aware of the delays. Still not going to buy anything before I fully understand Ampere vis a vis Navi 2x.
I'm not going to pretend to have any way to foresee what NVidia is going to do, but that is what the rumor mill came up with. But this time around, hopefully we will have more competition from AMD at the high end to force NVidia's hand, just like they forced Intel's. No one outside of NVidia strategy sessions could possibly have any idea, so we'll have to wait and see.
To be honest, 1080tis are not all that much slower than 2080tis, even with Optix. Unless there is something for which a bit more speed would provide a disproportionate difference, like you've got two hours per day to work on scenes but it takes two hours and ten minutes to render, your 1080tis are fine. The speedup between those two generations was kind of underwhelming for me.