Question about nvidia 3060 vs 2060

dream-weaver

I am currently using a 2060 for rendering and was thinking about an upgrade to 3060.
To be more specific, the TUF 3060 V2 OC.

I was going through the forum and found this chart:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1wkuVTjE9LDrq_YHstg_iJy6HUO5eQTNlXGMB25mfk44/edit#gid=0

So, does that mean a 3060 renders the same image in about half the time compared a 2060 (iray)?
I mean, does it only count for that benchmark, or let's say a scene which currently takes about an hour for my 2060, would take half an hour for the same scene with the 3060?

PerttiA

https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/341041/daz-studio-iray-rendering-hardware-benchmarking/p1

RTX 3060 results start on pg 23

nonesuch00

dream-weaver said:

I am currently using a 2060 for rendering and was thinking about an upgrade to 3060.
To be more specific, the TUF 3060 V2 OC.

I was going through the forum and found this chart:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1wkuVTjE9LDrq_YHstg_iJy6HUO5eQTNlXGMB25mfk44/edit#gid=0

So, does that mean a 3060 renders the same image in about half the time compared a 2060 (iray)?
I mean, does it only count for that benchmark, or let's say a scene which currently takes about an hour for my 2060, would take half an hour for the same scene with the 3060?

I checked that about 3 months ago and you are correct. 3060 does renders in about 1/2 the time of 2060s.

outrider42

The 3000 series really turns on the ray tracing compared to the 2000 series. But it is important to note that the Iray benchmark thread we have is just one scene. The exact speed you experience in another scene might be different depending on what your scene has in it. With CUDA cores the performance differences were very predictable, if card A was twice as fast as card B in one scene, it was pretty much twice as fast in every scene. Of course Ampere has CUDA cores. But the newer ray tracing cores are a bit of different beast. The performance can scale differently from scene to scene depending on the geometry in that scene.

Basically the more geometrically complex a scene is, the more impact the ray tracing cores have. If you use fiber mesh hairs, which have lots of geometry, then the performance differences will get larger than say a bald character. So a 3060 is always faster than a 2060, certainly, but exactly how much faster can vary a little bit because of this. However, like I said Ampere's ray tracing cores are much faster, and I believe you would feel the difference most of the time.

Another consideration is VRAM. The 3060 has 12GB, and that is a very nice upgrade over the 2060 and 2060 Super. For many people the VRAM is a bigger upgrade than the speed. And one last option is to use both cards if possible. A 2060 plus a 3060 would be a massive leap over a 2060 alone, if this is an option for you. You can never throw too many GPUs at Iray.

Matt_Brown

I render with a 3060 and find it fantastic. It is the 12GB VRAM for me. Most of my scenes have a lot of characters in them so my memory usage is high.