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I am looking at making the plunge and getting octane. However, before I do i need to upgrade my graphics card. I have read through the forums and manuals posted online and video ram seems to be important. As from what i understand the scene must fit into the vram in order for it to render.

A GTX titan is out of the question. I can't really justify spending a 1000 dollars for a rendering card for a product i havent used outside of a demo. Especially when outside of octane the card has no real practical purpose. As its a horrid gaming card.

So im looking at the gtx 770 4gb model or the gtx 780 3gb model. What im wondering though is while the 780 is faster how important is the extra gb of vram that the gtx 4gb 770 has is? As i will be working in poser primarily. Will most average scenes fit into 3gb in octane? Are octane material files smaller then poser material files? As the amount of ram i see used in my resources for poser is usually around 3gb mark.

My current video card isn't really adequate to do any real testing of the product.

Hi. 3gb vram for Poser is a good amount. 2gb handles the majority of Poser scenes, but 3gb provides a good buffer to handle almost anything you will render via Poser.

Paul

Thanks paul that helps alot.