Hello
Actually i'm using GPU 560 TI with 2 GB RAM. I want to upgrade my hardware stuff, but i read that new gtx670 and gtx770 are not so fast for GPU rendering as gtx580(3GB Ram) is...Is it true? I know that gtx580 is really hot after long 100% gpu loading, but i want to have better performance -i don't care about temperature (i can but 2-3 big fans to my case). I know that 670 and 770 is not so hot when gpu is 100% loaded, but performance is not so great like people expect.
GTX580 is ready to buy for 200$, price for GTX670 or GTX770 is starting from 400$.
Can you help me - what GPU should i take if i want to have good performance in GPU rendering but in good price?
Thanks in advance
Krzysztof Czerwinski
Question about speed of GPU - 580 3 GB or 670 2 GB?
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A GTX 580 with 3GB is hard to get these days. If you can by this card for 200$ it is a good deal.
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true bro - run, don't walk - to snag a 3 gigger for $200... they usually do not go for less than $350US on eBay. $200 is typically what 1.5GB go for.
true bro - run, don't walk - to snag a 3 gigger for $200... they usually do not go for less than $350US on eBay. $200 is typically what 1.5GB go for.
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I run a 580 3GB GPU in a Main Gear F131, a case which has pretty exceptional cooling as far as cases go. At 100% GPU load my 580 runs at about 85 degrees, even with the side panel taken off. You can lower this temp a few degrees by lowering the render priority settings.
Now, I too was concerned at first..very concerned in fact. However after chatting with a few people who knew way more about computers then I did, the general consensus is that this is OK. Even the Maingear representatives I talked to told me that this was pretty descent for this card. What they have said about the 580 card specifically is "just keep it below 90 degrees for reasonably long card life".
I have another computer with a Geforce 9400 GT that is like my "garbage surf the Internet computer". I will play games on this computer occasionally to occupy myself in between renders. It has been running hot in the 85-89 degrees for years and I have not bothered worrying about it because it is after all a garbage computer. So to me a "reasonably long life" seems like about as long as I would want to keep a card anyway.
It has been suggested that in a few years we will be seeing GPUs that can read from the computers actually ram, and thus the vram limitation could become a thing from the past. When and if my card burns out I will want one of those anyway, and if not, in a few years I am fairly certain that a new "go to" card will be out there. There are 5GB telsa cards and 6Gb titans already.
Hope this helps.
As For Speed:
It is true that the architecture of some of these new cards are not rendering as fast as some of the older ones. What you are saying is true for Blender Cycles, but I do not know for certain if this is also true for Octane. But I would suggest that regardless, adding an extra gig to your scene outweighs being able to render it a little bit faster.
Now, I too was concerned at first..very concerned in fact. However after chatting with a few people who knew way more about computers then I did, the general consensus is that this is OK. Even the Maingear representatives I talked to told me that this was pretty descent for this card. What they have said about the 580 card specifically is "just keep it below 90 degrees for reasonably long card life".
I have another computer with a Geforce 9400 GT that is like my "garbage surf the Internet computer". I will play games on this computer occasionally to occupy myself in between renders. It has been running hot in the 85-89 degrees for years and I have not bothered worrying about it because it is after all a garbage computer. So to me a "reasonably long life" seems like about as long as I would want to keep a card anyway.
It has been suggested that in a few years we will be seeing GPUs that can read from the computers actually ram, and thus the vram limitation could become a thing from the past. When and if my card burns out I will want one of those anyway, and if not, in a few years I am fairly certain that a new "go to" card will be out there. There are 5GB telsa cards and 6Gb titans already.
Hope this helps.
As For Speed:
It is true that the architecture of some of these new cards are not rendering as fast as some of the older ones. What you are saying is true for Blender Cycles, but I do not know for certain if this is also true for Octane. But I would suggest that regardless, adding an extra gig to your scene outweighs being able to render it a little bit faster.