Mid-range GPUs and vantage - worth it?

[azuolas_juskenas]

Hey, I was just wondering if anyone here uses vantage on anything else than a 4090 or 4080 and could share their experience on how the lower tier cards hold up? I haven't been into GPU rendering so far, but I am doing some simple interior animations now and have some more coming in the near future. I currently render on a ryzen 9 5900x. Would a rtx 4070 + vantage be a huge boost here compared to CPU rendering, or is it not worth it unless its a top tier gpu like the previoulsy mentioned ones?

[s_gru]

although i have no data, i would think that a 4070 would be faster especially using vantage. with RTX cards, vantage really comes into it's own taking advantage of the raytracing. i don't know if there are any benchmarks for vantage, but i believe there are v-ray benchmarks of different cards and they might even have comparison with a CPU?

i know that vantage is about 2x faster than me rendering with v-ray gpu inside 3ds max. that's with the same cards. yes, i think that there is some differences still between the "look" of the render. i just recently compared because i'm working on a just over 1m animation @30fps. the v-ray gpu had a bit more light bouncing around and looked good. vantage was a little smoother. this can also be due to some of the settings i'm choosing however.

maybe just get 1 4070 and try it out? the card wouldn't necessarily go to waste.

[pavol_pastork]

Hi, I am using vantage with RTX 3070 and 2060 (just for display not rendering). I make only interiors and all my renderings are made inside vanatage. I didnt make any bucket rendering for over the year or more.
I am using live linking to adjust lightning, compositon and so.
With decent settings I render one 2K image in abou 2 minutes. So for me, it is the great time.
360 renders without using denoiser (because of low graphic memory) are made in 20-30minutes.
If you have any quastions, feel free to ask.

[Luma3d]

I use the 3080 on msi for small projects and use an egpu with 3090 for large exteriors...

[q976431]

I am using 4090 and 3090, 24GB graphics memory for larger scenes, and a better graphics card will result in better rendering speed。
I have tried lower end cards and the rendering efficiency is very slow。