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RTX 2070 Advice

ebergerlyebergerly Posts: 3,255
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I've been out of the 3D scene for a couple years, and haven't kept up with all the RTX-related activities. When the RTX cards came out a couple years ago I got an RTX 2070 Super, pretty much just to mess with it doing some Iray/C++ programming. But when the pros came out with their findings that the RTX cards' performance was amost entirely a function of "scene complexity", and could vary drastically based on some nebulous variables they couldn't describe, I soon lost interest and the RTX 2070 Super has been sitting in a closet ever since. 

At this point I'm trying to decide what to do with it. The GPU market looks pretty much insane right now, with a lot of cards out of stock and prices all over the place. And I rarely do "complex" scenes (whatever that means...). I much prefer to spend time doing scene management to get simple, 5-10 minute renders that get composited together in post, rather than 2 hour renders filled with every object I can find. So I'm not too excited about pulling out my GTX 1070 and replacing with the RTX 2070 Super, especially since I also have a GTX 1080ti that does fine. Getting 5 minute renders vs. 10 minute renders really isn't important to me.

So has anything changed with Studio versions/Iray versions/RTX/drivers/etc. that would make it worthwhile to keep the RTX 2070 Super, or is now a good time to unload it on eBay or something?

Thanks   

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  • ebergerlyebergerly Posts: 3,255
    edited February 2021

    Hey, I just noticed that the Iray preview is, like, real time now. It wasn't like that before was it? Wow, nice. Maybe the RTX cards would even improve the response? Now THAT would be worth it. My big wish has always been an improved Iray preview response. 

    Heck, if I can preview what my render will actually look like in real time and adjust lights, views, etc., on the fly, the ultimate render time is, for me at least, somewhat irrelevant. The worst thing is not knowing, waiting for a 15 minute render, and realizing, darn, the lights need tweaking. 

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  • FSMCDesignsFSMCDesigns Posts: 12,782

    yep, the preview was real time before RTX support. I'd be lost wiihout the preview option

  • richardandtracyrichardandtracy Posts: 5,930
    edited February 2021

    To be honest the best thing for you to do is plug it in & try it. The 2060 is a pretty capable card compared to mine and the GTX1060 I plugged into my machine (after CPU only rendering) made it seem like a totally new machine with DS. DS is incredibly GPU hungry, the more, faster & bigger the better.

    Regards,

    Richard

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  • ebergerlyebergerly Posts: 3,255

    Ah, okay. The fog is starting to lift...

    I'm recalling that performance of the Iray preview as very much dependent upon a few things, such as not doing the preview from a Camera View but rather from the Perspective view, because there were a lot more calculations for the Camera View (like if you had it Pointing To something, etc.) which could make the Iray preview response much slower. Or something like that...

    Maybe the RTX's will speed up the Iray preview in Camera View? 

  • PerttiAPerttiA Posts: 10,024

    ebergerly said:

    Ah, okay. The fog is starting to lift...

    I'm recalling that performance of the Iray preview as very much dependent upon a few things, such as not doing the preview from a Camera View but rather from the Perspective view, because there were a lot more calculations for the Camera View (like if you had it Pointing To something, etc.) which could make the Iray preview response much slower. Or something like that...

    Maybe the RTX's will speed up the Iray preview in Camera View? 

    No harm in trying what happens and how it performs, I have a RTX 2070 Super and I'm happy with it, even though everybody was saying that the end of June last year was a bad time to buy one since the RTX 30xx ones were just around the corner... laugh

  • ebergerlyebergerly Posts: 3,255

    There's ALWAYS a better one "just around the corner".  What was "the mostest awesomest new technology EVER" last year is somehow junk this year. 

    Go figure. laugh

     

  • jd641jd641 Posts: 459

    If you're not sure you want the 2070s, how much would you want for it?

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