Octane Hardware Setups

[jbehne1989]

Hey everyone,

I'm thinking to purchase octane as a new renderer for C4D.
At the moment I'm working on

a Mac Pro :

CPU - 2x3,06 GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon
RAM - 64 GB 1333 MHz
Graphiccard - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 2048mb


I know the most important thing is the graphic card, but my question is a little bit more specific.
I think in generell it is a great Hardware Setup but do you guys think, switching to Octane still brings more performance instead off keeping renders on this cpu?

What are your opinions/experiences? I really would appreciate your help.

Thanks and cheers

[aoktar]

Hi,
The renderer uses gpu to calculate images. So most important part is gpu performance. But still we need cpu to detect/collect/prepare and compile the geometry and materials. So a fast cpu would help to work faster, smoother else of image calculation phase.

[jbehne1989]

Thanks for your fast reply.

Makes sense to me. So you still would say, I would render faster using octane instead of standard /physical renderer with my hardware setup?

cheers

[aoktar]

Thanks for your fast reply.

Makes sense to me. So you still would say, I would render faster using octane instead of standard /physical renderer with my hardware setup?

cheers

Maybe hard to beat PR with current setup. 680 is not much fast as 780/780ti or 980/980ti.
But it also depends to scenes. Dof, mblur, blurred reflection/refractions, GI, etc... would have impact on PR vs. Octane. Also Octane's quality is much physical realistic for my personal opinion.

Why don't you compare it on Octane demo with exactly similar materials, illuminations, etc... features?

I found this old and interesting topic for you: viewtopic.php?f=25&t=52260