RAM/Processor Question

inspired_art_86a3f09735

Kitsumo said:

inspired_art_86a3f09735 said:

Just out of curiousity, does a Tesla K40 12GB GDDR5 GPU Graphics Accelerator Card speed up DS render time in a i7?
I'm only running 16GB on the motherboard itself.

Support for Kepler GPUs was removed back in 2020 https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/6105227/#Comment_6105227

I suppose you could get it working if you're willing to use an older version of DS and Nvidia drivers to match. I have a GTX 770 (Kepler) that still renders, but that's only because it's on a Window 7 machine that I rarely use and isn't connected to the internet.

If you're using CUDA (which Iray does), Nvidia cards have a lifespan of about 6 years or so before they're removed from support. Those old Teslas/Quadros/Titans on Ebay are cheap for a reason, they're no longer supported, or about to lose support.

Also, the K40 has rendering performance somewhere between the GTX 970 and GTX 1060. There are current gen CPUs that are faster.

My recommendation; Increase your RAM and just buy a 3060 12Gb. I know it'll hurt, price-wise, a 3060 (new) is roughly 8 times the price of a K40 on Ebay, but you'd get nearly 10 times the performance. It's probably the best price/performance/VRAM card ever for Iray (even better than the 1080ti) and I don't think we'll see anything similar until the 5000 series.

It's either that or wait for the 4060 to release, but given the 40 series pricing so far, I don't think it will be that great of a deal.
 

[Bother]!
Are the older DS builds still available? Used to love 3++
Truthfully I'm not even sure the Kepler will work with this Dell i7 with its measly 300 watts or whatever.
I just saw that they have it listed as compatible with DS studio... But of course, it didn't say which version :P 

Kitsumo

@inspired_art_86a3f09735, As far as I know, Daz doesn't make old versions available, and they don't want people sharing versions with others. But I've heard you can contact tech support and ask for a previous version if you need it for a reason. I tried, got no response and my support ticket was closed after several months, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

inspired_art_86a3f09735 said:

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I just saw that they have it listed as compatible with DS studio... But of course, it didn't say which version :P 

What?! A hardware seller on the internet being unscrupulous?  Unheard of!

Cheers. And good luck whatever you decide on.

inspired_art_86a3f09735

Kitsumo said:

@inspired_art_86a3f09735, As far as I know, Daz doesn't make old versions available, and they don't want people sharing versions with others. But I've heard you can contact tech support and ask for a previous version if you need it for a reason. I tried, got no response and my support ticket was closed after several months, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

inspired_art_86a3f09735 said:

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I just saw that they have it listed as compatible with DS studio... But of course, it didn't say which version :P 

What?! A hardware seller on the internet being unscrupulous?  Unheard of!

Cheers. And good luck whatever you decide on.

Ah! A joker! I like you already!!!!

radego01

anaximanes_2000 said:

Hello, I want to say that I am not at all knowledgable in anything regarding computers.  I have been using a computer and I have:

Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8700 CPU @ 3.20GHz (12 CPUs), ~3.2GHz

Memory: 65536MB RAM

and two NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti

 

I do not know much, but I was talking to someone at PC Laptops here in Utah and he said that I could get a 30 something core processor and 256 gigs of RAM (instead of the current 64) and we'd just use the same two NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti graphic cards and that it would speed up my Daz work. As I understand the RAM is what is used while I am editing the models and moving them and such and the graphics cards and the 30+ core things are used when I render.  Before I pull the trigger on this and upgrade with all this RAM and the new processor, I wanted to make sure all this is true, and thank you!

Iray requires a good graphics card, not a processor. The priority is enough VRAM (graphics card memory). Personally, I would go for the RTX 3090 or RTX 4090, but you have to take into account that you will have to upgrade the entire PC, not just the GPU. 64GB of RAM is fine.