GTX580 performance for Octane and SLI effect
Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2011 5:31 pm
Looking for a new rendering system to test interactive rendering of walkthroughs. Found some gaming benchmarks on GTX850 in SLI 1-2-3-4 way.
2 x GTX580 gave 180%, while 4xGTX580 gave 240% on gaming benchmarks.
1) How would Octane performance go with this 2 and 4x GTX580 ?
2) is it as good to assemble 2 PC's with 2xGT580 rather than 1PC with 4xGTX580 ? Think the former would prob be a bit chaper and more robust, and cooler.
Objective is to buy a test system for Octane/Blender to check feasibility of interactive walkthrough (interiors, not outside), and if OK scale up performance by adding extra cards, or adding extra Render PC's in network nodes.
All experience/advice welcome. Already gave up Mac Pro option. PC Motherboards with 4xPCIe x16 are rare, and those that can actually run 4 slots in // at x16 even more rake (actually not found yet).
Thanks
J
2 x GTX580 gave 180%, while 4xGTX580 gave 240% on gaming benchmarks.
1) How would Octane performance go with this 2 and 4x GTX580 ?
2) is it as good to assemble 2 PC's with 2xGT580 rather than 1PC with 4xGTX580 ? Think the former would prob be a bit chaper and more robust, and cooler.
Objective is to buy a test system for Octane/Blender to check feasibility of interactive walkthrough (interiors, not outside), and if OK scale up performance by adding extra cards, or adding extra Render PC's in network nodes.
All experience/advice welcome. Already gave up Mac Pro option. PC Motherboards with 4xPCIe x16 are rare, and those that can actually run 4 slots in // at x16 even more rake (actually not found yet).
Thanks
J