Thank you! Again!
Added 2017-03-16 16:53:59 +0000 UTCFeels like holding a baby! An expensive one too ...
Thanks to your support, I did something I wouldn't normally do and that is getting an overpriced, high-end piece of hardware.
This stuff has its place of course, but usually I'd buy something that gets me the best value for money.
One of the advantages of using a GPU renderer like Redshift (as I do) is that upgrading is as simple as swapping out the graphics card. Another advantage is that you can simply add the new card to the old one and just run both.
Unfortunately, when I built my system in 2012, I didn't have multi GPU in mind, so I neither have the space, nor the cooling, nor the power supply to run two GPUs.
I might upgrade to AMD's Ryzen in the future, but the fact that their r7 line allows only two GPUs in the system, is a real damper. I'm currently hoping that either their server grade CPUs will be affordable or that Intel lowers their prices significantly.
Anyhow, this was still a worthwhile upgrade! The scenes, I tested, rendered about 70% faster than before. Scenes, which were limited by my old 970's measly 3,5gb Vram, now render more than twice as fast.
I'll let it render one of my old animations overnight to see if any problems pop up.
Thank you guys so much, again!
PS: Symmetra's body rig is done and I'll work on the facial rig today.
Comments
"970's measly 3,5gb Vram" Makes me laugh, I'm still rocking a 670. Would kill for a 970. XD Killer upgrade though, 70% faster rendering is nothing to sneeze at!
Lanakila
2017-03-22 21:10:03 +0000 UTCNICE!
Inceton games
2017-03-19 14:42:28 +0000 UTCIf you're talking about interactive stuff or something that runs in a game engine, then no. Some sort of steroscopic or panoramic renders, maaaybe if the scene would benefit from it.
2017-03-17 13:16:14 +0000 UTCThe results from gaming benchmarks aren't really comparable to how these cards will perform in Redshift ... the gaps between the different cards aren't nearly as large. Also, in Redshift's case, the results heavily depend on the scene and render settings. I did a little bit more testing yesterday and got closer to double the performance of my 970, which was around what I was hoping for. One scene even rendered three times as fast. There's a couple of settings, which can speed up the render time at the expense of memory, something I couldn't really use with my 970. Another thing to keep in mind is that my card only runs at 90% load at most. I assume that's because some of it is reserved for Windows and Maya and whatnot.
2017-03-17 13:11:02 +0000 UTCIt's strange that 1080Ti is only 70% faster than 970. It should be 3 times faster.
Aleksandr
2017-03-17 11:36:28 +0000 UTCNo way, gotta werk, werk, werk! :p
2017-03-16 20:39:09 +0000 UTCWhat's that? Can't hear you from up here :|
2017-03-16 20:36:48 +0000 UTCNothing I could not have done before. But it'll make lighting and lookdev in general much more enjoyable, thanks to the faster preview renders.
2017-03-16 20:36:24 +0000 UTCSure is! <3
2017-03-16 20:33:17 +0000 UTCWhy? She's still wearing the shroud!
2017-03-16 20:33:05 +0000 UTCThank you and I will :p
2017-03-16 20:32:11 +0000 UTCBeauty and the beast all in one :p
2017-03-16 20:31:58 +0000 UTCAwwww shit motherfucker moving on up!
TheDirtyMonkey
2017-03-16 19:45:02 +0000 UTCLooking forward to seeing what you can do with it (I_I)b
Nefarious
2017-03-16 18:56:25 +0000 UTCPatreon's a thing, innit ;p
Stonebrow
2017-03-16 18:46:02 +0000 UTCYou forgot to put NSFW!
2017-03-16 17:52:00 +0000 UTCnice! its well deserved and you'll put it to good use.
Khuru
2017-03-16 17:13:17 +0000 UTCbeeeeeeast card. so beautiful.
Fred
2017-03-16 17:06:55 +0000 UTC
