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Grettings !

I decided to put this question here, because i think i am not the only DS user here I wanted to know if you have any dates for the version plugin for Daz Studio 4.5 Pro. ? Because i hesiting to buy the standalone version but is maybe better to wait. I use only Daz, and after what i saw in the annoncements... i dreaming !

Annex question : I plan to buy a laptop soon, and saw some with Nvidia card. Do you have a suggestion or anyone know what NVdiia card is necessary to be sure octane working ?

Sincerly,

C.O

hi there,
Thanks for dropping by!
We do not have a particular release date yet for the integrated daz studio plugin. It is certainly something to look forward to and might be best to wait for it.

For Octane to run, the minimum requirement is for the laptop to have a fermi card with at least 96 cuda cores. This minimum requirement is only to run it but it will slow down everything else, considering that the laptop also uses the video card for other purposes. So for rendering, you'd need a higher number of cuda cores for optimal performance. For example, a DellXPS i7 laptop with a 540M card (96 cuda cores) is great for other stuff but this will still render too slow, while an Alienware M17X-R3 i7 gaming laptop with a 580M (384 cuda cores) is ok for rendering.

As for the kepler cards, these are very power-efficient cards and it also has the possibility for more textures, yet its cuda cores are not comparable to ones in the fermi cards (the 580 will outperform a 680 in terms of rendering speed).

Of course, a desktop still tops. Right now, Octane is being optimized for the gtx 600 cards. So it boils down to your preferences, hopefully this info will be useful for you.

If you have a computer that runs Octane you can purchase the program and try the Daz2Octane exporter while you wait for the Official Plug-in.
The exporter is in the licensed user section.

First, Thx you for yours answers.

Yes Tugpsx, i discover Octane Render by a Artist in Deviant Art website. When i saw his work, and how professionnal quality of his rendering, i was impressed. That why i hesiting to buy the standalone version. But the plugin version will be more confortable for me.

Yes abreukers, your informations will helps, even you do not have dates for the plugins sadly. And thx you for this informations about the graphic cards

Sincerly,

C.O

ClairObscur (ça sonne français ...) You will need a standalone license anyway. To use the plugin, you will have to buy a standalone license plus an additional (plugin) license. So you might consider buying standalone license now and start using it, then buy the plugin license when it becomes available.

Thanks all for your participation in this post, just a note on the current developments:

This was the case last October 2012:

abreukers wrote: ...
As for the kepler cards, these are very power-efficient cards and it also has the possibility for more textures, yet its cuda cores are not comparable to ones in the fermi cards (the 580 will outperform a 680 in terms of rendering speed).
...

Now about a month after, we are happy to say that the keplers have finally come through and cuda cores from these architectures are now very much at par in terms of rendering speed. So we're still bound to keep our 580s and 590s working, though the efficiency of the new keplers gives the new architecture a really big plus!

I just bought a second GTX 580 3GB for dual GTX 580 3GB setup waiting for the DAZ plugin in order to get the best possible performance. I wish I had read this message before about Kepler cards finally coming through with performance because now I need to upgrade my brand new PSU from a TX850M to an AX1200 in order to use both Fermi cards which are power hogs.

abreukers wrote: Now about a month after, we are happy to say that the keplers have finally come through and cuda cores from these architectures are now very much at par in terms of rendering speed. So we're still bound to keep our 580s and 590s working, though the efficiency of the new keplers gives the new architecture a really big plus!

So can you say that the gtx-680 is faster than the gtx-580 and and the gtx-690 is faster than the gtx-590 and so on...
are you talking about version 1.02?
are the kepler cards will be better optimized for octan in the future?