NVIDIA GTX 1080 and AMD Radoen DUO Pro announced. vray performance??

[Libertyman86]

So since the announcement of these news cards by both the green and red team I am very interested to see how the VRAY RT rending is compared to the TITAN X and 980ti.

Any updates or info from the devs or people that have access to these benchmarks would be greatly appreciated. I trying to figure about about my next purchase regarding GPUS.

[vlado]

We've got nothing yet - we will have more info whenever those cards are avilable for sale in our part of the world

Best regards,
Vlado

[Libertyman86]

Great! I can hardly wait! Keep us GPU nerds posted.

Also....I have read that AMD and Nvidia are quickly coming out with new Dev tools to unlock more features that the GPU can do. Has there been any recent breakthroughs from the GPU side of things that have seen appealing to adopt for Vray in future updates?

[savage309]

Great! I can hardly wait! Keep us GPU nerds posted.

Also....I have read that AMD and Nvidia are quickly coming out with new Dev tools to unlock more features that the GPU can do. Has there been any recent breakthroughs from the GPU side of things that have seen appealing to adopt for Vray in future updates?

Dev tools - not really, but there seem to be quite a few possibly (very) interesting hardware capabilities, like compute preemption, shared virtual memory, nvlink, native 16 bit support, hbm memory ...
We will know if they work once we test them.

[Libertyman86]

I'm genuinely surprised you haven't gotten access to alteast one GTX 1080 yet being a very popular company and all. Bencharks will start to be announced on May 17th. There is a NDA on it right now so I guess I answered half my question regarding vray benchmarks.

[vlado]

<shrug> We generally have a good relationship with nVidia, and we usually do get new hardware in advance, but we didn't this time even though we asked several times. So we'll know more when we actually buy them here.

Best regards,
Vlado

[Libertyman86]

well I'll be damned.

Benchmarks for other apps are out now for the GTX 1080...

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...scal,4572.html

[super gnu]

i note with some interest there are no cuda applications in that roundup..

[Libertyman86]

i note with some interest there are no cuda applications in that roundup..

I know, I just think its good to see the performance gains in other ways too.

[AC5L4T3R]

I finally got my hands on a Titan X the other day (from a Quadro K5200) and lighting cars with Vray Lights/Softbox Maps in RT and being able to look through the lights in the viewport blows VRED and my K5200 out of the water. My boss asked me the other week if it would be better to invest in CPU or GPU's for Vray power. Originally I thought CPU's would be better but now I've seen what a Titan can do (albeit sometimes navigation is painfully slow - if anyone has any idea how to fix this let me know) I definitely want to explore the prospect of getting two 1080's - if they are as much improved as the Titan's (for half the price!) as the benchmarks are showing.

[Raph4]

I have pre-ordered mine (PNY GF1080GTX8GEPB), but need to wait a bit before buying :

https://forums.geforce.com/default/t...on-fan-issue-/
https://forums.geforce.com/default/t...e-system-info/

[AC5L4T3R]

What made you go for the Founders Edition? I don't think reference coolers have ever been good.

I think I will go with a 480 from AMD because the price for gaming is awesome - if the performance is as good as they say it is.

[vlado]

We got the 1080 today, so we'll post some benchmarks shortly.

Best regards,
Vlado

[walee]

nice to hear you got the 1080 can't wait for the benchmarks, so i can make the choice between 1080 or 980ti.

[Moriah]

Someone over at Octane forums posted this small benchmark with Arion, seems pretty promising around 25% increase speed, specially since there's no CUDA optimizations yet, and only recently CUDA 8.0 RC has been out.