Octane/GPU Upgrade Is Amazing!

[Spectralis]

I've posted this in the video section which no one seems to read much so I'm posting my experience with Octane here. I've just upgraded from a KFA GTX 470 to an eVGA GTX 760 4GB RAM Reference card. The 470 got too hot and didn't have enough RAM so I could never test Octane properly.

Not anymore! I'm now rendering complex photo realistic HD (1090x1080) scenes in DAZ Studio in minutes. Max GPU temp 80 degrees. What would have taken ages to render in DAZ now takes minutes using the Octane plugin.

I chose the reference 760 rather than wait for the superclocked versions because the reviews of the OC'd 760 didn't rave about the extra 10% OC and I wanted heat blown out the back of my PC as I have a few other PCI cards installed and air circulation is not that great in my PC. The twin fans of the superclocked version blow the heat into the case but claim to keep the GPU 10 degrees cooler.

The card cost £227 and so far I couldn't be happier. Together with DAZ Octane this is an incredible and cost effective rendering solution for those on a budget.

[Daniel]

Interesting, I'm still happy with my 460 2GB, although I have been thinking about upgrading soon.

[Spectralis]

I never really got the 470/1.25GB VRAM to work properly with Octane so I can't compare it with the render speeds of the 760. The 760/Octane render is a lot faster than the CPU render in DAZ. The 760 benchmarks at close to 670 speed so I assume it's a lot faster than a 460. I'm loading quite complex DAZ scenes using about 3GB VRAM and Octane handles them well so far. The only thing that doesn't work are Octane animation renders which crash DAZ. Maybe I need to adjust settings or the beta plugin isn't capable of animation yet?

The only other thing I would wish for is to be able to control how much VRAM Octane uses but that feature might arrive in a future plugin update.