Building new pc for daz/iray...suggestions? Dump 980ti?
Hi. I want to start from scratch and go with one of the six core intel processors and move to a nvidia 1080 to speed up my iray renders. I already have an asus ROG maximus hero motherboard and 32gb ram. Is there anything else you can think of to speed up my renders? I'm currently using a 4xxx something intel quad core. I have almost given up on animation because it is really slow. Slower than I feel like it should be. And in Poser, its really pig slow.
Thanks!
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Sounds like you got a kickass system going there. You might consider dropping back to a four-core i7 as the performance difference isn't that great, plus I've read not a lot of software takes advantage of six cores...yet. You didn't mention storage, so I'd definitely go with an M.2 SSD. Suckers are blazing fast. Won't help with render times, but every little bit helps. One last suggestion. Check out render farm services. There's a number of them that cater to individuals.
Nvidia shield would be incredible for this purpose...may need to send them a message! $300 render nodes...
I'm doing the same, but with a four-core i7 and a pair of RAID 1s, 2TB and 4TB (A small SSD would have cost the same as my pair of 4TBs, with 1/8 the storage and no redundancy). All I'm waiting for is for the video cards to be shaken out before I decide on 1080 or 980 series. Still haven't seen anything but game performance writeups, and I don't game. It might be a while.
If you can afford such a powerful machine, I suggest you max out the RAM to 64 GB. Everything helps to improve performance.
I have an Intel i7 6 core processor, NVIDA 980Ti, 64 GB RAM. I primarily use 3Delight, but my renders are typically 30 minutes or so. I pushed it with 6 people and 10,000 x 10,000, and that took an hour and a half.
I had built my machine with the capability of adding 3 more NVIDA 980Ti's. There are experts here who can better advise you about the pros and cons of doing so and how it will affect your renders.
I own 1 980TI and render predom in Blender Cycles and iRay. No complaints about speed by me....a typical render is measured in minutes not in hours and that is okay with me. I would not be the first to jump onto the Pascal train. Experience shows that cycle presure is high and competition is fierce. As a result expect some driver issues and frequent updates. Better find a decent 980ti or Titan X at discount prices and wait for the 1080ti to arrive, the TI being the best bang for the buck, arriving at the end of the Pascal product chain. I waited a full 9 month for it to arrive. Happily it's arrival more or less coincided with a garage sale I held and so I could free up the cash to by it and a PC brand new. BTW, system RAM does not improve performance per see. It's a fast CPU (6 core or better) and a fast GPU. Personally I will skip this train altogether and wait for teh Volta chain that is currently under development (or so the roumoer goes).
Adding multiple 980TI also helps btw, the performance in Blender scale more of less linear, in Cycles it does it as well. But remember 1 thing. The memory limit remains at 6 Gb no matter how many cards you instal, only the speed improves (in iRay).
And AFAIK 3Delight does not use the GPU at all....so 3Delight renders benefit from fast multicore CPU's and in this case performance does not scale to well. I use Agisoft Photoscan and that program does create a dip when you use multiple CPU's for instance (Xeon architecture) and scales non linear on a single CPU (which means that 8 to 10 cores in a single CPU is the cost effectiveness sweet spot).
Greets, Ed
Yes unless we see some drastic cuda improvements I will be sitting on my 980ti for awhile. Maybe build an external box to hold several cheaper cards to accelerate iray/octane.
The 980Ti should be good enough with its 6GB of RAM
10 series don't yet work with IRAY.
I have an NVIDIA TITAN X and it renders superfast
Hi there
Really depends on budget I would say from start...Currently I've i7-4790k with which I'm disappointed,previously I've been running for while older X58 with Xeon X5670 which has been OC up to 4.4GHz and my renders has been faster than with i7-4790k although 4790k is OC more to 4.7GHz in hotter days and in colder days I'm using 4.8GHz OC
In yours case,really depends,I would go with
X99(LGA 2011 V3) motherbaord(Asus are great and have god experience with them,ASRock is good too and MSI or Gigabyte I can't comment,have used only two Gigabyte and both died within few weeks,plus support is awful there)
i7 5820k(if budget allows then 5930k or 5960x)
good cooling(something like Noctua D15 or Corsair H100 v2,just upgrade fans to something like is Noctua NF-F12 as those stock Corsair fans are loud as jet fighters taking off)
RAM,if budget is then 32GB DDR4 is minimum and if you want to be bit more future proofed then 64GB is what I would go,DAZ3D is not RAM heavy
GPU that's the questions for next few weeks,when we have actual card here and people will test those cards like in Octane or DS IRAY,until then I would wait and on paper looks like 1080 have less CUDA cores than GTX 980Ti,but I'm comaparing Maxwell CUDA cores vs Pascal CUDA cores,due this I would still prefer to have GTX980Ti or go with Titan X
Yours current CPU is OK(if its 4790k) and shouldn't bottleneck GPU in any situation,if you are not sure just post the screenshot from CPU-Z,if you can OC bit a CPU,you will gain bit free performance in rendering,in therm of rendering on i7-4790k,in my view is slow,have used that CPU and now I'm on Xeon E5-2683,have look my i7-4790k in Corona Benchmark(Corona is renderer) renders at 3:12 and current 14 core/28 thread E5 2683 V3 ES render same image in 2:05(with OC I can do in 1:50)
Hope this helps
Thanks,Jura