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Just got a GEFORCE GTX 780 ti graphics card...wow! What a difference!!!

blkswmpblkswmp Posts: 0
edited July 2016 in Technical Help (nuts n bolts)

I spent a few weeks researching the best low budget graphics card to use with DAZ 4.9 as I am just a hobbyist at best and need no professional rendering capabilities (yet).  I had a junk card that would take 3+ hours to get to about 25% on an iRay scene (nature scene, water, etc) and it was eating up all my cpu resources for little gain.  I just installed the GTX 780 ti today (along with an upgraded 1000w power source) and holy crap what a difference.  That same scene...renders now in 13 to 15 minutes.  Insane.  I love it.  Very happy and can't wait to do some sweet scenes now that I don't have to skimp on sets and props.  I got the card and power supply together for $550 on Amazon.  From the research I did, the 780 ti outperforms the 980 ti for less cost.  Here is a good comparison. http://www.migenius.com/products/nvidia-iray/iray-benchmarks-2015

For newbies the CUDA cores are what you need for fast DAZ rendering.  The onboard 3mb memory is plenty for what I need to do.  I saw lots of posts whining about it not being 4mb or 6 or 8.  This things screams with 3...and unless you are doing high end movie production I'd say go order one of these immediately!

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  • nicsttnicstt Posts: 11,715

    Grats, but trust me; give it a couple of weeks or so, and fifteen minutes will be soooooooo long. :)

  • franktuttlefranktuttle Posts: 67

    Congrats on the new card! I hope to get one myself soon. Good to know it makes such a huge difference.

     

  • blkswmpblkswmp Posts: 0
    nicstt said:

    Grats, but trust me; give it a couple of weeks or so, and fifteen minutes will be soooooooo long. :)

    I'm sure you are right!  LOL.  For now I will bask in the glory of getting full iRay renderings in a fraction of the time that I did yesterday! 

  • barbultbarbult Posts: 24,240

    Yes, enjoy your new treasure. There will always be something newer and something better, so just ignore tha, and have fun with what you just got.

  • nicsttnicstt Posts: 11,715

    Hmm, btw, that link of commarisons doesn't show the 980ti, only the 980. The 980ti is significantly ahead of the 980 in all the tests I've seen.

    http://gpuboss.com/gpus/GeForce-GTX-980-Ti-vs-GeForce-GTX-780-Ti

    http://www.gamersnexus.net/hwreviews/1964-nvidia-gtx-980-ti-benchmark-vs-780ti-980-titanx-290x?showall=1

    http://www.anandtech.com/show/9306/the-nvidia-geforce-gtx-980-ti-review/15

    I've seen folks say it has more cores: true.

    ... But comparing cores between different generations is not an effective way of extrapolating results.

  • fastbike1fastbike1 Posts: 4,077
    edited July 2016

    @nicstt  "I've seen folks say it has more cores: true. But comparing cores between different generations is not an effective way of extrapolating results.

    All true. There;s only about 70 cores difference between the 780ti and the 980ti, but the 980ti runs at a much higher clockspeed. I have the MSI 6GD5T OC which has a 1102/1190 base/boost clock, but in Studio it runs up to 1320 clock at the thermal limit of 79C and 79% TDP. Stats from GPUz.

    My 780 (same clock as the 780Ti) would only run to 920 under the same conditions.

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