Video Card

[glorybound]

But the Quadro m6000 is crazy expensive. How fast hardware moves, a $5000 card today will be a $500 card next year.

[glorybound]

Found one for $2900, but no returns and no warranty.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/282161992826...MakeTrack=true

[glorybound]

As low as $2250. (maybe not - it's just the current bid)

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Nvidia-Quadr...3D282161992826

[mitviz]

its a beast of a card but idk, i doubt if you will ever use all the 24 gigs, maybe the most 12 gigs for most scenes unless you have a tonne of displacement, plus remember with octane there is out of core rendering so even if vram runs out it will stil render

[glorybound]

It would be nice if V-Ray RT was hybrid, too. Now, I get a whole lot of crashed with V-Ray RT, even on very simple scenes. Sometimes I can rotate my HDRI with RT, but other times it doesn't move and I have to hit render again. Anyway, a lot to think about.

[mitviz]

well honestly i have had zero crashes since, i used it yesterday on a bigger scene for few hours and its pretty good, slow but working, i prefer Fstorm and its gpu interactivity though and i hope vray rt will get there

[eyepiz]

Maybe it just me but after using the denioser for a bit my UI seems to lag a bit until I reboot.

[Nicinus]

the the quadro m6000 is a 24 gig card but i think most scenes will fit into a 12 gig card, currently on my 1080 and doing up to 50 mill polys and using about 4 gig of vram, the trick is with textures, most people just use anything they find online or buy online so what you have to do is optimise those textures, even with regular vray its a good idea to optimise but for most scenes optimising textures can be a fast batch process in photoshop, and then it can handle huge scenes, my only issue is with vray rt, for large scenes it starts to get reallly slow on my 1080 card but one other gpu renderers its perfectly smooth, i guess it can only hand midsize and smaller scenes at the moment but its am invaluable too to have so i would say go for the 12 gig card, gpu rendering is dam fast, you should see rt with midsize scenes, its crazy fast! but for me, i think what grabs me is that i can upgrade anytime or double my speed anytime with gpu while with cpu, hmmm its tough

I guess until further notice layer management is critical, just wish there was some form of dashboard that could show estimate memory consumption per layer, so that one could switch on and off layers depending on load. Imagine a speedometer that showed this visually so that you knew when the system was starting to get taxed and you had to switch off some layers to get back into green. Most of these solutions work great until they don't.

[werticus]

If you do go for a new card, don't get suckered into buying the OLD Titan X. There's a NEW Titan X now.
The old one is based on Maxwell Architecture, while the new one is based on the Pascal architecture which is way better. For some reason they'r both still called Titan X so I can see a lot of people getting suckered into buying the old one

I paid $600AUD for an old Titan X :P Who's the sucker?