What would be the best upgrade to speed up renders?

MikeAW2010_294cdd98f5

From what I am reading so far, 3dlight and iray use two different methods of rendering.. ..3dlight seems to be more CPU dependent, and iray seems to be more GPU dependent. Daz3d seems to be a single thread application, but rendering in both 3dlight and iray seems to use multiple threads from what I am understanding.

My current hardware:

Intel Core i5-7500 3.40GHz (4 CPU's)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB

48GB RAM @ 2400 MHz

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What would be more important for faster renderings? A better CPU or better Graphics card?

 

frank0314

You should try and replace the GPU to an RTX 30 series (example RTX 3060) with at least 8GB of VRAM. 

Willy2

You mention two possibilities.
You can do the test yourself very easily, in a few minutes, with the rendering of your choice.

The GPU allows to accelerate the graphic calculations and also to parallelize them.
However, with a very powerful CPU and a very old and poor quality graphics card, the calculations will be done faster by the CPU (however this type of configuration is very unlikely, because it is difficult to imagine someone who would buy a very powerful CPU and take a graphics card from a trash to create his computer).

 

StratDragon

if you top out your VRAM then it's left to the CPU and system RAM. depending on what you render and the size of the final product. 

Padone

You can upgrade to a 2060 or a 3060, both get 12G vram. But it is also very important to optimize the scene to get the best speed with the minimum vram. The scene optimizer is essential to work with daz studio, without it there's no card that's enough.

https://www.daz3d.com/scene-optimizer

Gordig

Your characterization of the render engines is a bit off. 3Delight is entirely CPU-based, and no GPU will make it any faster. Iray is GPU-accelerated, meaning that you can render on CPU, but an adequate GPU will greatly speed up the render. Even a 20 or 30 series GPU would th the same amount of VRAM as your 1060 will render much faster, but you should really aim for more VRAM, since Iray will only use a GPU to render if the entire scene fits into the available VRAM. 

Silver Dolphin

You could just render in Blender. There is a bridge.

alan bard newcomer

I noticed a comment in another thread about the 30xxs getting cheaper. 
Well yes and no...  the 3060 12g is down to 400/500 
But I stopped to look and basically except for the new stuff it has the same specs 3584 cuda and 12 g as my Titan X. 
A 3060 ti jumps the cores to 4864 byt drops the vram to 8g 
3070 jump the cores but keep the ram at 8g"
so have to go to the 3080s to keep the ram 
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so upgrade choices will be very individual 
plus that 1060 probably doesn't need nearly as much power.. so remember a 1200 watt power supply and possible cooling issues will play a part. 
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asus server board 2x xeon 2630, 64g ddr 4 and titan X and if I bother I have it doubled with the 980ti which  the program uses even if the scene is all on the 12 card. In a very large case sidways behind the monitor with the side off and never any heating problems.. 
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hmm, you know the 3d delight renders will use all available ram as well as iray...  may check and see if the 16g chips have dropped ... I have room for 12 more of them. 
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In the case above.. if mike isn't blowing out the ram ... jud doubling another 1060 might speed things up and be a cheap alternative. 

prixat

alan bard newcomer said:

I noticed a comment in another thread about the 30xxs getting cheaper. 
Well yes and no...  the 3060 12g is down to 400/500 
But I stopped to look and basically except for the new stuff it has the same specs 3584 cuda and 12 g as my Titan X. 

...but the 'new stuff' (and newer CUDA cores) lets the 3060 do Iray renders 3 to 6 times faster than the Titan X.