Upgrade from 980 ti Strix to 1080 ti O11G Strix

[johnwilhelm]

Hi everybody

I know there are dry benchmarks but I'm looking for a real live experiences: Lately I'm working with heavy scenes (filled with multiple 8K textures with displacement, forester trees scattered etc....). I'm rendering with two 980 ti strix and I'm wondering if it would be significantly faster to replace them by the latest overclocked 1080 ti or was this just money thrown out of the window?

Thanks for any hints

John

[johnwilhelm]

Not to forget I'm almost always working with volumes (fog) in the scenes...

[paride4331]

Hi johnwilhelm,
I personally recommend hybrid or founder edition instead of strix; they are less noisy and colder (temperature kills render time).
Said that, your encrease will be about 1.4 X faster, so 60 minutes render will be 42 minutes (more or less) using 1080ti.
11Gb Vram onboard will be very very useful using 8k texture displacement.
Regards
Paride

[johnwilhelm]

Hi johnwilhelm,
I personally recommend hybrid or founder edition instead of strix; they are less noisy and colder (temperature kills render time).
Said that, your encrease will be about 1.4 X faster, so 60 minutes render will be 42 minutes (more or less) using 1080ti.
11Gb Vram onboard will be very very useful using 8k texture displacement.
Regards
Paride

Thank you very much...

[johnwilhelm]

Okay I replaced the two 980 ti strix by two 1080 ti strix o11g... performance increase is about 30%-40% but what's almost more important is stability with 8K textures. Did a few heavy renders to test so far and never had a crash. Not sure yet if it was worth the money... but hey wait... the RGB effects are soooo cool *lol*