How do we know if a graphic card is Iray capable?

Kevin Sanderson

Newegg has been selling a bunch of refurbished EVGA GTX 780 6GB cards for $399 the past few weeks. That's a possible solution you may be able to handle. Plenty of CUDA cores, decent amount of memory, and not too far behind yet. It is not hard to install a video card if you have the space on your mobo (takes up 2 slots) and space in your PC case - front to back, a good power supply with the proper voltages/amps (at least 600 watts) and connectors that come with most modern power supplies.

SixDs

Since I pulled together some info for my last post, I figured I may as well go a little farther. So I put together another comparison table with a few more cards added and more info. This one is not in order of benchmark scores, although the cards at the top will be faster, generally, than cards further down the list. The list doesn't include every card over the last three generations or so, but a fair representative sample. If interested in a card not there, you can get the specs from Nvidia or elsewhere and compare to those that are there.

Ideally there would be a standout that represented the perfect match of 4 GB or more of memory, fast performance and reasonable cost, but inevitably there is at least one piece missing. And that's not a coincidence.

Anyway, hopefully someone will find it useful, and maybe make the connection between the various specifications that affect usability. C'mon, jump down the rabbit hole! :)

gilraen

I have an Asus G750 notebook PC (yes a laptop :-) ) that was designed for gaming, but works great for 3D. it has the NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX860 video card, and an i7 processor. I paid base $1300 for it ( a bit more to add additional memory and the service plan). I am Extremely happy with this considering it was relatively inexpensive.