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Is my gtx 260 graphic card useful for Iray rendering?

drinformationdrinformation Posts: 115
in Technical Help (nuts n bolts)

I have a releatively old graphic card, a GeForce GTX 260, it appears in render devices but when I try to render without CPU the render is aborted before the first iteration and I'm left with an empty canvas, I wonder if I can use it for rendering at all? something like a driver update or spcefic program to install perhaps?

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  • ArtIsHardArtIsHard Posts: 7
    edited June 2016

    To be honest with you, you won't have much fun using Iray with that card. 

    If you are really wanna use Iray you should get yourself a newer Nvidia card - something like a 660ti or higher.

    I do have a 970 and my render times are pretty good.

    And a AMD card won't work right - Iray is developed by Nvidia.

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  • drinformationdrinformation Posts: 115

    it's true that my card is a very old model but the thing I'm wondering about is: would it be able to render since it appeard on the list of devices? or any card will appear there even if it's not capable of rendering.

  • ArtIsHardArtIsHard Posts: 7

    I guess any card appears in the list. Not sure about AMD cards tho.

    Your card can render things in Iray, but I guess it will reach its limits very fast.

  • kaotkblisskaotkbliss Posts: 2,914

    It looks like it's only a 1 GB card with only 192 cuda cores.

    If you do manage to get a scene to fit within 1 GB, then the 192 cores will take forever to process and render the scene anyway.

  • drinformationdrinformation Posts: 115

    it has less than 1GB, around 800mb, but I'm rendering only one figure is that more than 800MB? the fact that the render don't start leaves me wondering how slow is it comparing to my core 2 duo E7400. only if I could have a test to compare...

  • ArtIsHardArtIsHard Posts: 7

    A CPU is in Iray always slower than a Nvidia GPU, at least one of the newer Nvidia cards.

    To make a long story short - if you really want to do renderings in Iray you should consider upgrading your graphics card. 

  • mjc1016mjc1016 Posts: 15,001

    A 260 shouldn't just 'drop' at the start of a render...look in the log file and see what it is saying aobut the card and the reasons it's dropping (Help > Troubleshooting > View Log...).

  • drinformationdrinformation Posts: 115

    here is what I get in the log

    2016-39-11 00:39:09.480 Rendering image2016-39-11 00:39:09.500 Iray INFO - module:category(IMAGE:IO):   1.0   IMAGE  io   info : Loading image "D:/Program Files/DAZ 3D/DAZStudio4/shaders/iray/resources/DTHDR-RuinsB-500.hdr", pixel type "Rgb_fp", 512x256x1 pixels, 1 miplevel.2016-39-11 00:39:09.530 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Updating geometry.2016-39-11 00:39:09.530 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Using built-in ray tracing.2016-39-11 00:39:09.530 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Geometry import (1 object with 1k triangles, 1 instance yielding 1k triangles) took 0.0005902016-39-11 00:39:09.530 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Updating materials.2016-39-11 00:39:09.530 Iray INFO - module:category(MATCNV:RENDER):   1.0   MATCNV rend info : found 1 textures, 0 lambdas (0 unique)2016-39-11 00:39:09.530 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Updating environment.2016-39-11 00:39:09.550 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Updating lights.2016-39-11 00:39:09.550 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Updating object flags.2016-39-11 00:39:09.550 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Updating caustic portals.2016-39-11 00:39:09.550 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Updating decals.2016-39-11 00:39:09.560 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Using batch scheduling, architectural sampler disabled, caustic sampler disabled2016-39-11 00:39:09.560 WARNING: dzneuraymgr.cpp(261): Iray ERROR - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.0   IRAY   rend error: Cannot render: found no usable devices.2016-39-11 00:39:09.560 Iray Render error: Invalid parameters (NULL pointer).2016-39-11 00:39:09.640 Saved image: C:\Users\K\AppData\Roaming\DAZ 3D\Studio4\temp\render\r.png2016-39-11 00:39:09.670 Finished Rendering2016-39-11 00:39:09.729 Total Rendering Time: 0.33 seconds

    just a simple cube to render, maybe I should update my driver cool

  • frank0314frank0314 Posts: 13,410

    You need 4GB of RAM on your GPU to utilize it in Iray.

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