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Just spent days re-installing Studio and Poser onto a new machine. (Still not finished!)
It's a RTX3060 with a 5800X CPU. Incidentally the CPU contributes around 8 to 9 percent of the iterations, I'll have to calculate how that translates to rendering time saved.
Ordering an 'off the shelf', 'next day' machine was the only way I could get hold of a new graphics card!
Nvidia Tesla M2090
tesla K20
Tesla M40
P106-100
Maybe i'll eventually get some volta's, turing and amperes.
I'm still on a 2070 (vanilla, not Super). I'm really not inclined to pay the over-inflated prices of this next generation, assuming I could find one. The 2070 was about £100 over-priced imho. Wanting to try out RTX was the only reason I bought one.
just a 980ti
I think it is more a case of everyone is using what they can afford/get after the cryptominers have cleared the stocks
Just a quick update...
I did some quick and dirty testing on some of the ready-to-render scenes, without optimising for Iray.
In this CPU/GPU combination (5800X/3060), the CPU contributes more as the resolution goes up!
percentage improvement in render times with CPU:
500x500px -2%
720HD +2%
FHD +3%
4K +5%
8K +8%
Hey, guys. I'm wondering if anyone has tried the AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X?
Or a similar CPU with more cores in rendering?
Just wondering how it will cope against the GPU background
As I recall Threadrippers, not sure if it was this generation or the oen before, were similar to a 10x0 generation GPU.
In the original question there is a clear sense of seeking, at least to me.
Find the best/best-affordable/best-doable solution is different for each, yet in many ways not.
I have been pondering external video solutions via USB C or Thunderbolt or both.
Thunderbolt 3 and 4 is out. USB 3.2 and USB 4 is out.
One thought is to spend the money on an external solution that can move from machine to machine or be upgraded without needed a new machine with all that entails.
Any thoughts on external for a solution for 3D?
One Idea (that might have been done in the past) is for the community to create an agreed upon "test file" that each can download and render.
They would each post the time it took to render and the specs of the machine used.
Costs could be added too, which of course would change over time.
This in turn gives real numbers to what cards, ram, cpu, OS, or the like make the difference.
Hardware like having enough ram to not have a swap file or ram vs GPU vs CPU vs number of cores could be weighed out.
Over time the test file might need to be updated to become more of a challenge as technology changes.
There are dedicated websites that test stuff like that but not likely any that test Daz.
TITAN RTX (outgoing for Founders 3090 any day now).
https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/341041/daz-studio-iray-rendering-hardware-benchmarking/p1 ;
PerttiA, Awesome!
I use 2 RTX 2080 with a Nvlink : 8 Gb is limited for my use : 1 to 3 G8 peoples with the excellent Ultrascenery bundles from Howie Farkes,
since Vue is not Daz friendly at all, alas ....
I have a 3090 and I spend most of my time gaming and playing with Blender and Evee. Daz just takes too long to get things done in Iray. I do like Daz filament and Opengl renders and mostly use these renders to make my comics. My 3090 gets too hot in iray so I run the fans at 100%, so when gaming I run fans at 70% using MSI afterburner. If you have one of these new cards they are fast but run too hot. Unless you have the means to get a 3000 series card I would suggest waiting till the mining craze blows over to get one.
Did you get the AIB or FE? My FE hasn't yet hit the 70c mark as of yet, via gaming or rendering...
Right. My understanding is the FEs are cooler and quieter (distinctly why I'm getting that one).
Sorry I have the PNY XLR8 EPIC-X RGB 3090. https://www.pny.com/geforce-rtx-3090-xlr8-gaming-epic-x-rgb-triple-fan-p
I have the same PNY 3090 GPU and I checked with GPU-Z while running a render in IRay - max temp I saw was 75 deg C with the fans just touching 50%. I can feel warm air coming from the case but it doesn't seem too hot. My case has several fans and the room temperature here is about 22 deg C/ 72 deg F.
By the way, the GPU is almost silent. I am sitting right over it and it is a slight drone during a render.
Need to verify if its possible to use 2 different nvidia gpu's together and does iray rendering support 2 different gpu for renderings? currently only have 1 video card : ( thanks.
The short answer is: Yes, no and maybe.
In my experience, as long as the drivers are compatible and the card is, currently, useable by DS, you can mix and match.
Is how hot and loud a GPU gets also dependent on the case itself -- the native cooling and airflow, etc.? If one goes for one of the high end 3000 series cards, what kind of system set up would you guys recommend?
I'm not sure I can recommend one. My case is 5 years old (I upgraded most of my PC recently but not the case). It does have good ventilation though - a large, silent fan at the rear and two fans in the top panel. Lots of air holes in the side panel too. That said, it is under my desk and the air flow is a little restricted but all tests show that the components are well within spec.
I recently upgraded from my ancient geforce 740. Managed to get a decently priced bottom of the range RTX 3060 12GB. I'm sure better ones are even faster, but I'm more than happy with it so far. It did all I asked it to in a blink of an eye (compared to my old one at least) and I just made a test. It can handle 8 fully clothed genesis 8 figures and a simple scene. By the looks of it dedicated GPU memory topped at 11.6 GB.