I am thinking about purchasing the full version of Octane but I need to upgrade my graphics card first. While I have read a number of forums discussing which card is the best in terms of price vs. performance, I continue to read comments about the importance of having a card with over 1GB of ram for processing large scenes. My question is this, how large is large?
I work primarily in Arch Viz, and the models I use are rarely over 50MB themselves. But not having too much experience with Octane, I don't have a good understanding of how much materials, lighting, and all the other fun stuff you can do in Octane add to the overall size of the files. While I am leaning towards getting a card with at least 1.5GB of memory, I do not want to be hindered in the future if I ever decide to add an extra card.
Does anyone have an example of a scene that was too large for a card with 1.5GB of space?
Thanks