HDD vs SSD drive
Kyan001
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Hello guys,
I was planning to switch my old hard disk with a brand new ssd.
Will I see some-kind of performance upgrade in DAZ? Like loading times or maybe something?
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If the SSD is on SATA bus, then the speed of loading might improve some, but it won't be spectacular, like 2 or 3 times faster. OTOH, if the SSD is NVME M.2 on your PCI bus, then loading times will fall by a lot. I have both flavors. My mobo is older so the PCI M.2 is not quite what it should be, but friends with newer mobo's built for M.2 drives report sizzling load times for their games.
Thank you for the answer!!!
Another advice.
Actually I have x3 1080TI and wanted to replace them too with x2 2080ti, is it worth it?
Wow, quite a rig. Don't know about the 2080's They ought to be killer. But, my understanding is that the RT cores require software changes. And, Daz hasn't implemented yet. Careful, I could be way off on that. My information is months old and incomplete. Search through the threads here. No doubt there is robust discussion about the 2080's.
Daz has implemented RT. The current beta theoretically has VRAM pooling so a pair of 2080ti's might be able to pool VRAM using an NVLink bridge.
However 3 1080ti's will outperform 2 2080ti's in some scenes. If you mostly do outdoor renders then I'd stick to the 1080's. If you do indoors scenes then the 2080's would likely be faster.
No, your 3 1080s will be noticeably faster than the 2 2080s. The 2080s just aren't that much faster than the 1080. The same argument may not be true with Ampere, though, but we don't k now yet.
2x 2080ti xs. 3x 1080ti
On the current version of Daz Studio, the 2080 ti should be much faster than the 1080 ti because of the added ray tracing hardware.
Allthough there should be nothing stopping you from running 2x RTX 2080 ti and 1x GTX 1080 ti. You can hook you monitor up to the 1080 and reserve the RTX cards for rendering only (One big advantage of this is that your active programs and Daz Studio viewport will not be using any of the RTX cards VRAM.
If you ask me.... rather than get two 11GB RTX 2080 ti cards, I would spend that money on a single 24GB Titan RTX and add that in with the two GTX 1080 ti cards. The 24GB Titan RTX is the most future proof consumer card that you can purcase right now. Every year Daz Studio content artists come out with more and more detailed and complex products for us to render. If your GPU does not have enough VRAM for the scenes you want to render, you might as well just have a cheapo GPU for running your active viewport.
The other option is to stick it out with your GTX cards and see if Nvidia's nex generation cards include a VRAM size increase across the board. Right now computer gaming is starting to hit a technological wall on current GPUs because of VRAM. (The just released Resident Evil 3 HD is using almost 8GB of VRAM at 4K resolution with ultra settings.) Plus 8K monitors are already on sale and PC gamers will be demanding GPUs with enough VRAM and processing power to run AAA titles at that resolution.
In Win10 the OS consumes VRAM on all consumer grade cards not just the one(s) that have displays connected.
I'm not talking about that, I'm talking about VRAM being consumed by active windows like your web browser or Daz viewport.
The next generation of the Nvidia cards will be delayed though. GTC was when we were hoping for an announcement, but that didn't happen. Maybe Q4 now?
Is the difference between 1080ti and Titan RTX so huge? About render time I mean
RTX cards are much faster than earlier cards. There's a benchmark thread here, not sure if both were tested but it might give you an idea.
The RTX Titan have more and more efficient CUDa than the 1080ti. That will give you a performance boost even if the number of ray bounces is minimal. If the scene has lots of surfaces for light to bounceoff of, like walls, then the RT cores will increase performance even more.
I need to correct myself a bit after downloading and running the Resident Evil 3 demo on my GTX 1080 ti. The game at 4k resolution with maxed out settings takes over 13GB of VRAM. So, the next gen Nvidia and AMD cards better be doubling the VRAM compared to the current gen.
My VRAM wishlist:
RTX 3060 12GB
RTX 3070 16GB
RTX 3080 16GB
RTX 3080 ti 22GB
Next RTX Titan 24 or 48GB
Does it happens to you too when opening a scenes that it stucks on "Daz not responding" loading only god knows what? I hope that switching to ssd will give it a boost in timings.
GDDR6 is way too expensive for that to happen. The next Nvidia flagship might go to 16, 12 is far more likely, but 22? People don't want to pay $1200 for the 2080ti. I can only imagine the anger at a $1500+ flagship.