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Hi,

I could get a Axle nVidia GeForce GTX 550 Ti 3072 MB (not fast, but 3GB) very cheap.
Would this card work with octane?

it should run fine, though I wouldn't expect serious performance out of it =)
try looking through benchmark thread as someOne might already posted some results.

thanks for the info!

here is a nice site to compare some techspecs (no benchmarks - maybe I´ll get half the speed of agtx580...)
http://www.pc-erfahrung.de/grafikkarte/ ... liste.html

for me it´s just a temporary quick and cheap solution to pimp an older machine and test octane (...I should say INCREDIBLE octane!!! I´m addicted!)

I also have some very poly-heavy CAD-imported geometry and want to check how much ram it needs

next year I´ll add a gtx580 and the 550 will stay as a pure displaydriver ... or I´ll even buy a new machine


octanedevteam, keep up your phantastic work! you guys are awesome!

These are cards with DDR3 VRam and slower as my GTX 550TI 2 GB DDR5.
I know from a blender forum this card is very slow on GPU rendering with Cycles also a Cuda GPU engine.

As my GTX 550Ti is low end for GPU rendering keep your money.
To compare, my card renders benchmark with 1.15 Ms/sec.

Cheers, mib.

I have a 550Ti - and don't have too many issues with performance on scenes < 500,000 triangles. But big scenes can sometimes be a problem (ie. a 4mil poly scene renders quite slowly). It depends on what you mean by "very cheap." - you can get much better cards for < $200 now.

I built it in now (app110€ for 3gig vram - ok for me and now) and just tested a 9mio poly-object and got to the conclusion that 2gig would be too small fo rme.
for a test it is ok for me (slow, but useable)
next big thing after the next good job will be a new machine with a at least gtx580 with 3gig !!!

ok
I just foung these two cards:

http://www.amazon.de/Gainward-Grafikkar ... 236&sr=8-2
370,-e

http://www.amazon.de/EVGA-NVIDIA-GeForc ... 236&sr=8-3
520,-€

both gtx580 with 3gb

where´s the difference of 150,-€???