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what tu buy?
Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2011 8:07 pm
by insane_cain
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
Regards
Catalin
Re: what tu buy?
Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2011 8:48 pm
by cornel
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.
Re: what tu buy?
Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2011 8:59 pm
by Jaberwocky
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.
