GTX 1080 no compatible with OCTANE V3!??

Tue Jul 12, 2016 3:29 pm

Is this even possible?! And could not see the benefit for nvidia to limit users @ two 1080

how will be the performance with the new pascal architecture?! will it be as much improvement with octan as it is with in games?!

Tue Jul 12, 2016 3:51 pm

nbeyond wrote:Is this even possible?! And could not see the benefit for nvidia to limit users @ two 1080

how will be the performance with the new pascal architecture?! will it be as much improvement with octan as it is with in games?!

I can't give you a quote on what performance will be like with new pascal architecture in Octane. The current version of Octane Bench does not support the 1080.
Once the team updates Octane to work with Pascal, I'll be happy to run a benchmark.

As for limiting the 1080's, again I can't speak to how this will work with Octane, but yes, it would appear that Nvidia has limited SLI configurations to 2-way.
More on that can be read here: http://www.pcworld.com/article/3071332/ ... etups.html

Bear in mind that this is SLI. Since Octane doesn't make use of SLI, as per what I've read here (Personally, I've only used a single GPU setup, hopefully I'll change this soon).
So I don't know if Octane will benefit from having more than two GTX 1080's or what have you. It is possible. Perhaps the Octane team can speak more on this.

Tue Jul 12, 2016 6:45 pm

yes, life is very cruel when you're actually reckless and don't check for specs

- it's called a lesson, and you shut up and eat your pants, and decide that next time a new GPU comes out, you first check for benchmarks and websites, and then decide to buy

- same shit happened with 7xx cards - as they were all slower than 5xx..

- remember life gets better when you actually learn, and don't make same mistakes - it works ..

Tue Jul 12, 2016 8:30 pm

acc24ex wrote:yes, life is very cruel when you're actually reckless and don't check for specs

- it's called a lesson, and you shut up and eat your pants, and decide that next time a new GPU comes out, you first check for benchmarks and websites, and then decide to buy

- same shit happened with 7xx cards - as they were all slower than 5xx..

- remember life gets better when you actually learn, and don't make same mistakes - it works ..

No need to be crude. This is what forums are for, to learn.

Wed Jul 13, 2016 9:57 pm

nbeyond wrote:Is this even possible?! And could not see the benefit for nvidia to limit users @ two 1080

how will be the performance with the new pascal architecture?! will it be as much improvement with octan as it is with in games?!

Octane Render is faster when cards are NOT in SLI mode. So the two way SLI thing is not a factor for octane.

Fri Jul 15, 2016 8:39 am

Hello everyone

I'm in the market looking to upgrade my PC and I was planning to get 2x GTX 1080s but then I came to know that the new GPU is not yet supported.

So now I have the following options:

1) Buy the new GPUs in hopes that support will come soon and performance will be great (very optimistic thinking even wishful).

2) Buy 2x GTX 980Tis instead (can't really afford Titan series).

3) Hold the upgrade until Support is established and performance is measured (hate to wait though).

Please let me know which of the three options above would you go for

Thanks for your feedback in advance

Fri Jul 15, 2016 8:45 am

yalbaiz wrote: Please let me know which of the three options above would you go for

Thanks for your feedback in advance

Since August (Nvidia Official SDK Cuda 8.0 release) is not that far anymore i'd choose Option No3.

Fri Jul 15, 2016 8:59 am

Hi, just for info, the latest Octane version is working on Pascal.

Cheers, mib

Fri Jul 15, 2016 9:27 am

mib2berlin wrote:Hi, just for info, the latest Octane version is working on Pascal.

Cheers, mib

Ohhh , really, that's new ?

any benchmark scores ?

Thanks

Fri Jul 15, 2016 9:43 am

mib2berlin wrote:Hi, just for info, the latest Octane version is working on Pascal.

Cheers, mib

Now that is great news.... So... humor me a little here... IF I do get the GTX 1080s today, will I be able to render using Octane? (Please let the answer be yes...please please... I already had the GPUs reserved)

I know option 3 is the most logical and reasonable, but I just can't wait anymore... My rig is 5 years old (CPU is i7 960, and I have one GTX 590 on it, with 24GB RAM) and it is hardly keeping up with anything these days.

I've been saving up to upgrade for sometime now and I think I held my breath for as long as I can,

Thank you all for your responses and still waiting for more opinions,