AMD graphics cards and 3d modelling.

[SniperSmithy]

Hi all, very excited to see that so far it looks as if AMD have pulled off a good coup. I've previously used NVidia cards for a mixture of gaming and 3d modelling and wondered if the AMD cards are good in this respect, since they won't support things like CUDA and OptiX. I think there are open source equivalents for AMD architecture, but I was wondering if anyone here has real experience of the Radeon cards in a production use case, such as Max or Blender.

Thanks for reading.

 

[Rroff]

I think it is going to depend hugely on the exact software setup and pipeline you are using. nVidia currently is a better bet if you are unsure and/or working on a broader range of software and work loads.

 

[Nasher]

What OS are you using? Because Nvidia's driver support for OSs other than Windows is pretty much non-existent.

 

[otester]

You should be able to use OpenCL in most 3D apps like Blender/Max with an AMD card.

Nvidia is better because some apps require CUDA.

Also I'd lookout for benchmarks for the 6000 series in 3D apps as the 3000 series RT cores may give it an advantage with render times.

 

[SniperSmithy]

I'm using windows 10. The PC I want a card for is my secondary PC, I have an older (much more costly) rig for day to day work use.

I would just like to use this on occasion when I'm tied down by a lengthy render. It'd mainly just the pc I use for gaming and entertainment use, so the 3090 is a bit too expensive for me right now and I was a bit concerned about 3080 vram as I do fairly regularly exceed 10gb on my renders, although I can work around this, it's not ideal which is what's got me looking at the 6800XT or 6900XT.

Thank you for the replies so far!