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Looking for Video Card guidance

3DSublimeProductions3DSublimeProductions Posts: 16
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Hey yall!

I am in the market for a new video card for my rig - something more powerful than what I have now that will render quicker etc.

This is my current rig stats:

Windows 10 64-bit

Intel Core i7-6700 CPU @ 3.40GHz

32.0 GB Ram SSD

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

Any guidance is VERY much appreciated :)

Hugs

T

 

Comments

  • PerttiAPerttiA Posts: 10,024

    RTX 3060 with 12GB VRAM unless you are loaded with money, in which case RTX 3090 with 24GB VRAM

  • TimberWolfTimberWolf Posts: 288

    By far the best value for money at the moment is the RTX 3060 in my opinion. 12GB of VRAM is the main selling point of this one as it is slower than the top end of the 20xx series for rendering but it's faster than the CPU when those cards have run out of memory! I can't see the GTX series being supported by iRay for much longer and they take a memory hit due to the emulation code that's loaded onto them during rendering. I'm honestly suprised you can get anything out of that 970 as there can only be about 1 to 1.5Gb left for the actual scene.

    You don't say what your budget is but the 3060s are almost down to MSRP at this point, having gone for silly money a year or so ago. If money is no object, then the RTX 3090 is the obvious choice (with a corresponding upgrade to your system RAM). Blisteringly quick with 24GB of VRAM. If you can't quite stretch to the 3060, then the 3050 will give you 8Gb of VRAM  for a little less cash but, quite honestly, I'd find the extra for the 3060. The RTX 3080Ti also has 12GB of VRAM and is *very* quick but sits in that odd zone of 'a speed increase but no scene capability increase for a pallet load extra of money'.

    The RTX 3060 will work well with your existing 32GB of system RAM (you won't need to do anything else to your system) and is a massive, massive upgrade from your GTX 970. I'm trying to think of a counter-argument to say why you shouldn't get the 3060 for balance, but I honestly can't. Hope this helps.

  • PreirinPreirin Posts: 6

    Hey there.  I have te GTX 1650 and it seems ot handle things fine.  Good performance for an affordable price, depending on your budget.

    https://www.nvidia.com/en-au/geforce/graphics-cards/gtx-1650/

    Hope this helps. 

  • PerttiAPerttiA Posts: 10,024

    Preirin said:

    Hey there.  I have te GTX 1650 and it seems ot handle things fine.  Good performance for an affordable price, depending on your budget.

    https://www.nvidia.com/en-au/geforce/graphics-cards/gtx-1650/

    Hope this helps. 

    A 4GB GTX card in DS doing "fine"?

    Are you sure you are not rendering Iray on CPU instead?

    In general 8GB's of VRAM is the minimum and even then an 8GB RTX card gives 1 more gigabyte of VRAM for Iray rendering, due to not having to emulate the RTX functions in software.
    The base VRAM load for an RTX card is about 3GB's and 4GB's for an GTX card, whats left is how much is available for Iray rendering.

  • GordigGordig Posts: 10,053

    What's your budget?

  • 3DSublimeProductions3DSublimeProductions Posts: 16

    Thank yall so much for the comments. I think I am gonna go with this one:

    GIGABYTE - NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GB GDDR6 PCI Express 4.0 Graphics Card

    at the crisp price of $440.00 wink

    It has to be better than what I have now LOL

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