Graphics card for sons new rig

[doopydug]

My son is currently at uni studying art and design and a lot of the work involves animation.

We are trying to build a PC on a budget that is suitable for uni work too - would the Ray Tracing of the Nvidia cards be any benefit or would he be better saving the money and getting Radeon?

 

[smogsy]

Does this animation Software Support CUDA or OpenGLs

thats what id ask first, CUDA being NVIDIA openGL being Radeon,

RTX MIGHT help but depends if he uses animations with textures on most dont

 

[doopydug]

The software he is using is AUTODESK MAYA and ADOBE PREMIRE PRO and ADOBE AFTER EFFECTS for 3d modelling and rendering tasks

To date, ray tracing has been mostly switched off in their workload but that may change in next two years at uni

 

[smogsy]

i know all of above use cuda so it may be better to look at nvidia

puget systems might have benchmarks

 

[doopydug]

i know all of above use cuda so it may be better to look at nvidia

puget systems might have benchmarks

Thank you for your input. You seem to know a bit about this stuff ( I don't clearly lol). Would 32GB RAM make a big difference or would 16GB be enough?

 

[smogsy]

I litterally learned everything from previous benchmarking experience,
Look At gpu benchmarks for Those programs

but i know Adobe are heavy on cuda
With Rendering more RAM better generally. but again Id look up benchmarks Program 16GB VS 32GB

 

[smogsy]

eg - maya - https://www.antoniobosi.com/maya-re...risons/arnold-render-cpu-gpu-speed-benchmark/

 

[smogsy]

this too https://www.pugetsystems.com/soluti...tions/autodesk-maya/hardware-recommendations/

 

[Tetras]

The software he is using is AUTODESK MAYA and ADOBE PREMIRE PRO and ADOBE AFTER EFFECTS for 3d modelling and rendering tasks

To date, ray tracing has been mostly switched off in their workload but that may change in next two years at uni

This channel does tests fairly often and the general conclusion is that 2D work is fine on either nvidia/amd, but 3D work is best on nvidia. Video is fine on either (codec quality aside).

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One of the most common cards for gaming/creativity is the 3060 12GB, because of the price and the 12GB memory.

There are some significant uplifts in some apps between RDNA 2 v RDNA 3 and Ampere v Ada, so something to keep in mind if cards are similarly priced.

Thank you for your input. You seem to know a bit about this stuff ( I don't clearly lol). Would 32GB RAM make a big difference or would 16GB be enough?

For this type of work, get 32GB.

 

[TrojanWhore]

Also if you're trying to keep the budget fairly low, then a DDR4 system would probably make the most sense, in which case 32GB is only £24 more than 16GB anyway!

My basket at OcUK:

• 1 x Team Group Vulcan Z T-Force 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-25600C16 3200MHz Dual Channel Kit - Grey (SKU: MY-0AK-TG) = £35.99
• 1 x Team Group Vulcan Z T-Force 32GB (2x16GB) DDR4 PC4-25600C16 3200MHz Dual Channel Kit - Grey (SKU: MY-0AJ-TG) = £59.99

 

[mickyflinn]

Echo some of the above the 12gb 3060 is a great card for productivity and solid 1080p gaming.