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RTX 3080/90 vs shared memory/Cuda cores - the 1000 dollar difference question

kgrosserkgrosser Posts: 141
edited November 2020 in Daz Studio Discussion

Now, availability out of the equation, but wiht the 20Gig 3080 cancelled (unless a 7nm respin, so my guess) I have been wondering of how 2 or 3 3070/Ti (with 3060Ti being rumoured as well) with sharing memory and Cuda cores would presumably stack up against a 3080 or 3090  GDDR6X card. While still being cheaper (and presumanbly available with out scalpers markup), offering roughly the same GPU horsepower when teamed up for iray.....

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  • cajhincajhin Posts: 154

    The 3070/3080 no longer support memory pooling. You'll be limited to 8GB VRAM, no matter if you have 1 or 4 cards. Which, for me, is the tightest bottleneck currently.

  • nonesuch00nonesuch00 Posts: 18,284
    edited November 2020

    The 3060 TI with 8GB RAM is going to be going for about $400 supposedly. I've read the details on the Big Navi & the Ampere cards and nVidia DLSS & Omniverse win it for me. Personally $1500 is 8 months of saving every extra penny I have while I can save for a 3060 TI in 2 months. 

    To be clear the 3060s & 3070s will not be sharing memory but will be a little faster than 2080s. They'll only be about 3/4s or 4/5s as fast as 3080s or 3090s but now that these cards are doing in less than 3 minutes what used to take hours that's not a concern for me compared to saving $1100.

    I will buy a Big Navi card next year when their software is ready.

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  • kgrosserkgrosser Posts: 141
    edited November 2020
    cajhin said:

    The 3070/3080 no longer support memory pooling.

    Ah, why is that? Do you have a source explaining? If so, cancelling the 3080/20 was the worst decision ever made as they are giving up on the only advantage they  had over BigNavi being a marvellous iray render machine....

    I will buy a Big Navi card next year

    Hm... what do you expect for DAZ? It still wouldn't suppose to support iray, no?

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  • nonesuch00nonesuch00 Posts: 18,284
    kgrosser said:
    cajhin said:

    The 3070/3080 no longer support memory pooling.

    Ah, why is that? Do you have a source explaining? If so, cancelling the 3080/20 was the worst decision ever made as they are giving up on the only advantage they  had over BigNavi being a marvellous iray render machine....

    I will buy a Big Navi card next year

    Hm... what do you expect for DAZ? It still wouldn't suppose to support iray, no?

    No, I will be buying Big Navi because I am a programmer & Big Navi has a renderer available in Blender. It's just my tech nerd curiosity more than a need to have a 2nd current GPU from another GPU manufacturer.

    I've heard nothing regards AMD support for it's GPUs in DAZ Studio.

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