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Graphics card?

DMackeyDMackey Posts: 46
in Technical Help (nuts n bolts)
I'm sure this is posted some place but I'm not finding it. I'm wanting to set up a external graphics card for my laptop. What is the best nvidia card to use. What would be the best bang for a buck in other words.

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  • ImagoImago Posts: 5,155

    Depends on what exactly you could need... There are no "Perfect choice"...
    If you need a good card for DAZ and gaming, go for a GTX 1080 (about 700 - 900 $)
    If you need a good card only for DAZ, go for a professional workstation card like the Quadro series (you can find a Quadro card for WAY less than the previous example!)

    Before buy, anyway, check if your laptop is supported by the external adaptor!

    Last tip: Sometimes is better buy a whole new system instead of expanding the one you have! With 800-1000$ you can grab a better workstation with more RAM, powerful CPU and a good GPU, the same price of a single GPU card!

  • MistaD2047MistaD2047 Posts: 335

    I'm sure any of the Nvidia 10 cards would work.  I just recently bought a 1070 and it renders way faster by itself, unfortunately it was C$600.  but I was able to toss it into my desktop system without issues. Even with a Radeon Fury 9 in it as well. The bonus is that I can set the card to render just by itself and then I can also game and do other stuff using the cpu and my other card.

    So for renders and possibly gaming go for the series 10 Nvidia.

  • hphoenixhphoenix Posts: 1,335
    edited February 2017
    Imago said:

    Depends on what exactly you could need... There are no "Perfect choice"...
    If you need a good card for DAZ and gaming, go for a GTX 1080 (about 700 - 900 $)
    If you need a good card only for DAZ, go for a professional workstation card like the Quadro series (you can find a Quadro card for WAY less than the previous example!)

    Before buy, anyway, check if your laptop is supported by the external adaptor!

    Last tip: Sometimes is better buy a whole new system instead of expanding the one you have! With 800-1000$ you can grab a better workstation with more RAM, powerful CPU and a good GPU, the same price of a single GPU card!

    Quadro cards of comparable speed are WAY more expensive.  The Quadro line is the "Professional" cards, while the GeForce line is the "Consumer" grade cards.  While they will be more stable for long rendering sessions, the GeForce cards are still quite usable.  A GeForce 1080 GTX runs about $700 USD, whereas the Quadro P5000 starts at around $1800 USD.  They have the same number of Pascal architecture CUDA cores (2560), the 1080 runs at a higher clock speed (1.4GHz vs 1.6GHz), but the Quadro has twice the GDDR5X memory (16GB vs 8GB).

    Unless you are doing rendering professionally, buying the Quadro line is most likely a waste of money.  Even if you are, it may be an unnecessary expense.

     

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  • Geminii23Geminii23 Posts: 1,327

    I was also curious about upgrading my GPU.  Currently I am running dual GTX 760 4Gb cards and each has 1152 Cuda cores I believe.  Can anyone tell me how much of a performance gain I would get by replacing even one with a GTX 980 Ti 6Gb card?  It looks like they have 2816 Cuda cores.  Would this speed up the live iRay as well or just rending times of final scene?

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