What would be the best GPU I could get for rendering and gaming. I use programs like Softimage, 3Ds Max, ZBrush, Adobe Premiere Pro/AE, but i also like to play games like Warframe and Payday 2. I have a dual monitor set up and I sometimes get a pop up saying that my video memory is running low. It might be my own fault for having to any windows open up at a given time. I see Titan blacks on eBay for 6-700 sometimes and was wondering if its worth it or if a 980ti would be better. Let me know what you guys think
I don't want to spend over 800 and that's including a cooper block cause of my custom loop. Any input would be awesome
also should be noted that I go to school for computer animation. I can always set up a render farm at school just there computers are crap and It would be nice to do my finale at home.
I'd wait for GM210, which is essentially what the 980 ti should be.
//edit lol didn't realize I put GK.
uhhh I'm trying to look up what your talking about. From what I can find the "GK210" does not exist. Looks like just some rummer that someone started to get people on the maxwell hypetrain... are you trying to say I should wait for pascal?
That is why he said "wait" ...
as far as I am aware zbrush is all cpu and hardly uses the graphics card for anything at all..
also, check this out
http://www.cgchannel.com/2013/11/group-test-amd-and-nvidia-professional-gpus-2013/
If you don't wish to wait a GTX 980 should do.
If your serious about 3D, CAD, or encoding get a pro card. If your not sure k2200 and a gtx 780 $759. I would recommend AMD but I don't have experience with them someone chime in.
GK= Keppler GM=Maxwell. Last GK's were Tesla and Black.
*face palm* oh man I feel so dumb haha thanks for that
thanks that was really helpful, if only they stuck a 980 in there so we could see what's the RW difference.
Not so much cad. I'm in school for computer animation, so I'm serious about 3d. I know in 3ds Max I can set up witch card I want to help render a scene. Never thought about having two different cards in my build, I guess I'll have to look how to set that up.
I could be wrong and am often lol but they will probably start using the GM model number from now on.
Sitting in the waiting room I'll wait I'll wait I'll wait
Well that was as close as I could find to an article that covered all the bases.
I am not expecting 9xx nvidia cards to be very good for gpu rendering as they tend to gimp their gaming cards for compute.
it all comes down to your priorities
if its gaming first... get that 980 and don't worry :)
if its gpu rendering.. and gaming second, you need to do a little more research
About zbrush though, pretty sure almost any gpu will be good enough for that as its almost entirely cpu based (as crazy as that sounds)
is gpu rendering realy a thing?
i mean, i think most of the rendering speeds still relays more on cpu then gpu, to be honnest.
But if you wanne do gpu rendering, i think it would be better to grab a GTX Titan black instead of a GTX980 series. Because the GTX Titan Black GK110 still has allot more cuda cores then the GTX980 has. i think that could be handy if you do gpu rendering.
2880 vs 2048 cuda cores
correct me if my theory is wrong. But i dont think that GTX9xx series are realy great for gpu rendering.
In that case (correct me if I am wrong) but doesn't a 780ti have more Cuda cores again? But anyway, back to my original point, GPU rendering is a major thing. Not so much amongst cluster computation situations, but still an important factor.
During rendering (in Vegas) I can peg the GPU whilst keeping the CPU at 20-30%. I find rendering is more storage limited.
third party gpu renderers like indigo or octane are absolutely f**king amazing
you can get faster raytraced renders from your graphics cards than you would throwing the scene at a cpu renderfarm.
As far as I can see, the only things currently holding back gpu 3d raytacing are vram limits (as the whole scene + assets needs to live in vram memory for it to be truly ballz to the wall speed)... and that is the reason the firepro range has started shipping with ridonculous vram amounts
yeah i was looking at those renders and was really impressed, keyshot is also a nice one.
its becoming more and more popular, to the point now that 3dsmax and softimage even utilize gpu to ad in rendering speed
That's why blender comunity is hyped by the posibility of gtx 970 with 8gb of vram... and you can combine multiple gpu sets... so the won't be badly sold if they come out (even though the 256bit thing makes me doubt about it...)