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wich grafic card?

R25SR25S Posts: 595
edited December 1969 in New Users

I think this is a question for a Pro...
I'm going to buy a new notebook and I'm not sure wich grafic card is best for rendering in DAZ with Luxus and/or Reality.
What would you choose... (and why) or is there anything better?

1) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 880M

2) NVIDIA Quadro K5100M

3) Dual NVIDIA GeForce GTX 880M mit 8GB GDDR5 - NVIDIA SLI Enabled

4) AMD FirePro M6000 Mobility Pro

5) Dual AMD Radeon R9 M290X mit 4GB GDDR5 - AMD Crossfir Technology

Comments

  • prixatprixat Posts: 1,590
    edited December 1969

    For Luxrender the Radeon R9 would be the best choice. You'll get almost twice the OpenCL performance of an nVidia 780ti for about the same price.
    (That's why the Bitcoin miners have emptied the shelves, grabbing any they can get hold of.)

    BUT,
    luxrender is still in early days on the GPU side of things. You won't get as much of a speed gain as you'd expect.

    If you want to change to Octane later you'll have to change the cards to nVidia models (with CUDA)

    The 8GB of memory on an 880M may be the deciding factor.
    nVidia have focused on low-power and low-heat, the performance of the 880M is about 75% of the 780ti
    nVidia cards are CUDA based but they still do OpenCL, there's just a small overhead.
    You could use the 880M for Luxrender now and still have the option for Octane later.

  • R25SR25S Posts: 595
    edited December 1969

    these are important informations.

    so I have to think about something more before buying a new Notebook...

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