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Hey,

I purchased a new gtx 560...not exclusively but I certainly had this baby in my mind when doing so though:-) It has 1 mb ram and since I work with vray in arch viz my scenes often take 5 gigs of ram just to hold them open lol:-)

I wonder, how is refractive going to tackle this, if at all, in the future?

Instancing is certainly one thing...other than that...is there any way possible to offload the scene into the computer memory or something?

Because tesla with 3 gb ram is around 2.5k € (!!!) and I'm not even sure I want to know how much the ones with more (if there are) cost.

Are you counting on cards having more and more memory in the future?

Just curious!

There are 2GB versions of 460 and 560 available, aswell as 3GB versions of the 580.
Those are pretty good for complex scenes and are cheap.
Instancing is coming soon too, that will definitely help.

Radiance

Thanks...couldnt find a 2 gb version, or 3 anywhere in the stores tho, would prolly have to internet it...oh ye...was kinda surprised but even with one 560 (i kept quadro 1800 fx as primary) running the show, this thing is lightning fast...a real poetry in motion!!! And the results are real good quality, too, compared to traditional cpu-based unbiased renderers.

Truly awesome work guys, very very impressed.... and while I can't say it's viable for the scale I work at yet because of scene and texture loading limitations, it's really something I'm looking forward to in the future, and I just might start using it for minor projects.