Nvidia Titan X

sarge74

Looking to invest in one. I'm fairly new to Iray and a bit impatient with my Nvidia 1060. I need to render multiple G3's and that usually kicks over to CPU and takes too long. I know the Titan would be able to hold more with its 12 GB, but would it also speed up Iray render times? Any advice would be helpful before I spend the cash. Thanks

Padone

The truth is, you will always have to fit the PA's content yourself. Actually there's not a big enough card on the market for the DS content as is. But of course the bigger the better.

https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/158961/11-gb-vram-insufficient-for-5-characters-for-iray-rendering

 

Richard Haseltine

There wil always be a limit to how much you can have in a single scene and still use the GPU, but it's a bit over-stated to say that it will always be necessary to tweak.

fastbike1

You probably can't find a Titan X to buy. You will get better performance and almost as much Vram, plus less cost with a GTX1080Ti.

sarge74

fastbike1 said:

You probably can't find a Titan X to buy. You will get better performance and almost as much Vram, plus less cost with a GTX1080Ti.

Amazon has 'em

https://www.amazon.com/EVGA-GeForce-GAMING-Graphics-12G-P4-2990-KR/dp/B00UVN21RQ

and Nvidia is selling them limit two per customer.

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/products/10series/titan-xp/

sarge74

fastbike1 said:

You probably can't find a Titan X to buy. You will get better performance and almost as much Vram, plus less cost with a GTX1080Ti.

Amazon has 'em

https://www.amazon.com/EVGA-GeForce-GAMING-Graphics-12G-P4-2990-KR/dp/B00UVN21RQ

and Nvidia is selling them limit two per customer.

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/products/10series/titan-xp/

Padone said:

The truth is, you will always have to fit the PA's content yourself. Actually there's not a big enough card on the market for the DS content as is. But of course the bigger the better.

https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/158961/11-gb-vram-insufficient-for-5-characters-for-iray-rendering

 

Yeah, I read that post the other day. I guess that's why I was asking for advice about the Titan before I spent the money. Wanted to make sure it would do what I wanted.

sarge74

So a big scene with several figures may not fit on even a Titan X. I understand that. But how about speed? So if I keep the scene not too big for the GPU, will the Titan X render at a faster speed than my 1060 when I've kept the scene size limited to my 3GB GPU? Just want to know it will render faster before I decide to commit. Thanks

KindredArts

sarge74 said:

So a big scene with several figures may not fit on even a Titan X. I understand that. But how about speed? So if I keep the scene not too big for the GPU, will the Titan X render at a faster speed than my 1060 when I've kept the scene size limited to my 3GB GPU? Just want to know it will render faster before I decide to commit. Thanks

You can find the maxwell Titan x's quite cheap second hand. My first one was full price last year but i purchased another a few months back for around £600 ($750) on amazon. They are in the Goldilocks zone for gpu's at the moment - not new enough to be full price, not old enough to become expensive legacy equipment. If you're serious about rendering, it's the best option before moving on to a quadro. The pascal variants look slightly better but it's not a significant upgrade. 

Padone

As for speed Quadro P6000, Titan X and 1080 TI have about the same 13000 score on passmark, followed by the 1070 with a 11000 score. While your 1060 gets a 8700. So you can do your choice yourself.

http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/high_end_gpus.html

But speed is not all about it. If your goal is a clean final rendering there are tips and limits you must be aware of that gpu brute force simply can't break itself. As always of course the bigger gpu the better.

https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/160336/grainy-lighting-is-there-a-way-to-remedy-this

sarge74

Padone said:

As for speed Quadro P6000, Titan X and 1080 TI have about the same 13000 score on passmark, followed by the 1070 with a 11000 score. While your 1060 gets a 8700. So you can do your choice yourself.

http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/high_end_gpus.html

But speed is not all about it. If your goal is a clean final rendering there are tips and limits you must be aware of that gpu brute force simply can't break itself. As always of course the bigger gpu the better.

https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/160336/grainy-lighting-is-there-a-way-to-remedy-this

Thank you so much for that information! That is very helpful!