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Radiance-

Just curious how will multi GPU cards in a single system work? I understand that each GPU must have a copy of the data to be rendered...but will it be possible to split portions of a single image/render between multiple GPU cards? Or will it support a single render job per GPU? Or is it some other method.

I'd like to use a 9600GT as the display card and (2) GTX 280s for rendering only.

Thanks,

Charlie

Hi,

Yeah, you should be able to do that.
the multi-gpu setup will work transparently,
eg you're display denoises 2x as fast.

Radiance

Thank you! Will the cards need to be in SLI (the two 280s) or not?

Thanks,

Charlie

no, octane does'nt use SLI...

Radiance

Thanks!! Wow you are quick!

A related question: When rendering an animation will there be an option to tell Octane to render a single frame per gpu? So if I have 3 boards 3 frames would render in parallel. I can even turn off my monitor while Octane is rendering (to disk?).

Regards,

JF

JollyFather wrote:A related question: When rendering an animation will there be an option to tell Octane to render a single frame per gpu? So if I have 3 boards 3 frames would render in parallel. I can even turn off my monitor while Octane is rendering (to disk?).

Regards,

JF

yes, we'll provide documentation to do so once these functionalities are completed.

Radiance

Just to be clear, 2 nVidia 295s will be 4x faster on a single image? Or can be used on 4 different images?

pluMmet wrote:Just to be clear, 2 nVidia 295s will be 4x faster on a single image? Or can be used on 4 different images?

yes. you can do both.

Radiance

Hi,
this is my first post even if I'm around for a few days.
I just read about NVIDIA's Tesla 2070, a supercomputer disguised as a graphics card.
Is it in your project to make use of this power ?

Thanks for responding