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insane_cain
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Joined: Thu Feb 11, 2010 9:36 pm

so i have to buy a new gpu
and i have to chose between the gtx 560 ti 2gb of ram and 384 core's
and the gtx 570 1.28gb of ram and 480 cores
any hint's on what to buy to use octane for arch-viz ?
the price is the same

thank you for your time

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Catalin
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cornel
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Location: Munich, Germany

I would go with the 560´s 2 GB.
Don`t know how big your usual Archviz stuff gets, but in worst case it´s better to wait for a slightly slower 560 to render
than having no VRAM left in the 1.28 GB 570, which will refuse to load your scene if it´s exceeding the VRAM.
Win 7 x64 | GTX770 Phantom 2GB | Phenom II X6 3.2GHz | 16GB
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Jaberwocky
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I agree.Also bear in mind that if it is your only Card and you are using it for display as well as rendering then 200-300 mb may well disappear before Octane gets anywhere near it as it will have to run your screens as well.I run a 1mb GTX460 and run 2 screens on it 1) 1920 x1200 and the 2nd Screen at 1280x1024.I loose about 300MB running that pair.so I can only effectively load a max 680mb scene into my card.It certainly concentrates the mind in creating low poly scenes that's for sure. ;)
CPU:-AMD 1055T 6 core, Motherboard:-Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3 AM3+, Gigabyte GTX 460-1GB, RAM:-8GB Kingston hyper X Genesis DDR3 1600Mhz D/Ch, Hard Disk:-500GB samsung F3 , OS:-Win7 64bit
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