What hardware specs affect daz studio? Please educate us

tmtmtm_f56c8d4bda

I'm hoping to get clarity in understanding what aspects of the hardware setup have which effect on the studio workflow. 

 

CPU:

1. Threads

2. Clock speed

3. Cores

4. L3 Cache

 

GPU:

1. NVidia CUDA cores

2. VRAM

3. Clock Speed

RAM:

1. Amount (GB)

2. Clock Speed

 

hopefullt this can become a simple reference thread for those who seek to optimize their build for DS based work. 

tmtmtm_f56c8d4bda

Going to attempt answering my own question with the thing I know thus far:

 

CPU:

1. Threads: up to 6 is useful  beyond that there isn't much gain but I don't know why

2. Clock speed: loading data is faster and processing of morphs etc is faster

3. Cores: so far I have not found info on cores, just threads

4. L3 Cache: unknown

 

GPU:

1. NVidia CUDA cores: critical aspect in iray more is better

2. VRAM: determines number of vertices you can load, and texture map resolution

3. Clock Speed: unknown

 

RAM:

1. Amount (GB): unknown but I suspect that it determines size of file you can process 

2. Clock Speed: compatibility between CPU and RAM.

 

SickleYield

RAM determines how many polygons you can handle in the preview window at one time.  The more RAM, the more things you can manipulate at once.  Try loading three Stonemason sets at once and watch the lag, then hide them one at a time and watch it speed up again.

prixat

3Delight rendering (which is CPU only) benefits from lots of cores (and threads) at high clock speeds. I'm not sure where you saw more than 6 threads giving diminishing returns, that's not correct!