• Competitor rules

    Please remember that any mention of competitors, hinting at competitors or offering to provide details of competitors will result in an account suspension. The full rules can be found under the 'Terms and Rules' link in the bottom right corner of your screen. Just don't mention competitors in any way, shape or form and you'll be OK.

3D Rendering Question

Soldato
Joined
26 Apr 2003
Posts
5,744
Location
West Midlands
Something I've found myself getting in to and enjoying is creating 3D Renders. Currently I use Blender which doesn't support OpenCL which means my 1st gen i5 is doing all the heavy lifting. I'm thinking of getting a lower end nVidia card so I can make use of CUDA which is fully supported in Blender.

Do you think I'd get much benefit running this http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-059-KF&groupid=701&catid=1914&subcat=1854 along my 7950 purely for CUDA rendering?
 
Last edited:
You would probably be better off updating your CPU and/or increasing your RAM to 16gb+
it would be more beneficial. The 750 gpu may speed up the rendering process but if you want to manipulate it further or do other things with it then it falls back on your CPU and RAM.
 
You would probably be better off updating your CPU and/or increasing your RAM to 16gb+
it would be more beneficial. The 750 gpu may speed up the rendering process but if you want to manipulate it further or do other things with it then it falls back on your CPU and RAM.

Thanks, I thought as much. I'll give myself a full system overhaul when I get more information on how the 4790k overclocks and get a 780 too.
 
I think I'm going to do an overhaul this weekend. I don't really care for the slight temp drop of the 4790k so the extra £20 isn't worth it since it'd be under water anyway. I'm guessing the below would give me a substantial increase in rendering performance, especially with CUDA? Also would my existing 1600MHz RAM be okay for 4.4GHz on the 4770K?

  1. MSI Geforce GTX 780 Gaming Edition OC 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card MSI Geforce GTX 780 Gaming Edition OC 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card
  2. Intel Core i7-4770K 3.50GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - OEM Intel Core i7-4770K 3.50GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - OEM
  3. Asus Z97-A Intel Z97 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard Asus Z97-A Intel Z97 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard
  4. EK Water Blocks EK-FC780 GTX Ti - Acetal+Nickel EK Water Blocks EK-FC780 GTX Ti - Acetal+Nickel
 
Actually OpenCL for AMD cards has sort of started working. People have been getting results with AMD graphics cards and the latest drivers.
Here is the AMD cycles thread http://blenderartists.org/forum/sho...-news-for-AMD-ATI-Graphic-cards-owners/page78
The first 25 odd pages can be ignored

Also if you are going with an Nvidia setup, pay attention to your current RAM usage during renders and pick a graphics card that has sufficient RAM.
 
Back
Top Bottom