New POV 4GB Vram card arrives

[mbetke]

A new GTX 550 TI with 4GB of vram is avalable for 133€ as it seems.
Some pages are refering that its only DDR3 ram on board? Sounds strange.

You guys think there is benefit with a SLI setup of them? 4GB seems not much worth to a gamer but for GPU rendering it sounds great.

Newslink (german): http://www.computerbase.de/news/2011-08 ... en-handel/

[steveps3]

It's only DDR3 memory so it will be slow.

[Jaberwocky]

I think you would have to purchase a pair to get anywhere near the speed of 1 gtx460.

Having said that.If you need to render very high poly models on the cheap with vast textures and don't mind leaving them rendering away in the background whilst doing other things then, yes there may be a case to be made for them.


Just another thought.I wonder if the Refractive team could contact POV and ask them to manufacture a 6GB GTX580 model. Call it the Octane Special. I'm sure there would be a few takers here.

Anyone with me on this

[tehfailsafe]

Just another thought.I wonder if the Refractive team could contact POV and ask them to manufacture a 6GB GTX580 model. Call it the Octane Special. I'm sure there would be a few takers here.

I'll buy two...
But thinking about the slow 4GB, this may be the best option ever for a display card... Normally just disable it in octane and use the other "good" card to compute with so you don't chug while working. And then switch to the 4GB for those times you run into a scene that simply can't load, you have a great alternative to render it with.

It's a lot better than dumping the scene or dropping significant geometry / downressing textures if it just makes it look bad. I recently had to do this myself and the result looked worse, but I simply could not get it to load.