Question before purchase.

[JeanP]

Hi all,

Next week I would like to purchase the Octane bundle (Max bundle).

My concern is as follows.
Currently I have a Radeon GPU which I know is not supported, so I have to purchase a nVidia GPU which is fine and dandy but due to the purchase of the software and a new GPU my budget has shrunk.

I can afford roughly $400 on a GPU and was looking at a GTX 660ti.

My question is. Will this GPU be enough (in the meantime) for Octane, I want to use it mainly for animations?
Also, is the GPU supported?

Thanks, look forward to your replies.

[kavorka]

If you can get a GTX 580, go for that, should be about the same price but will get you better results

[JeanP]

Hi thank you for the reply.
Is there any particular reason why the 580 will be better.

Reason is that I doubt I can get it as it is a minimum of $150 more expensive than the 660ti over here in my country.

Will I have the performance difference between the two as a big problem, or- will the difference in performance mall enough not to worry so much?
Again, this is mainly for animation purposes.

Thanks again.

[kavorka]

Here is a spreadsheet for speeds of various cards by users.
The 6.xx series performs worse in Octane than the 5.xx series.

https://spreadsheets0.google.com/spread ... utput=html

Here we see that the 660ti got 2.23.
a GTX 470 got a score of ~2.4. You could find the 470 for ~$200.
The GTX 580 gets ~ 3.5

The 660ti doesn't seem like a great card for speed/cost ratio in Octane.