I think I am done with GPU

[zero-13]

I agree GPU can be sometimes frustratingly weird, it's been much better the last few releases. In V-Ray's defense I think the majority of the "issues" stems from GPU architecture in general, emphasis on the I think part.

The thing I love most about V-Ray in it's current state is the ability to instantly switch back to the ultra robust and stable CPU engine with very little setup, if GPU is not doing what I want or if Nvidia drivers are being goofy.

Not many other render engines have that flexibility and it has saved me more than once not being locked into GPU.

When I get to the point of configuring my next workstation, instead of going all in on GPU compute or CPU compute, I'm going to try my best to get the most I can of both, to give myself that flexibility.

[MANUEL_MOUSIOL]

You guys are cracking me up
I am saying that I have a lot of problems with GPU and a lot of answers are that they dont have problem and that is very stable. It is good to hear, but it differs from my experience. Maybe I should work on your PCs on your projects
Anyway, my latest archviz project didnt have any problems so far except for the occasional vram insufficiencies. Using on of the latest nightlies. I will stick to GPU for a little while longer. This gave me a little bit of hope.

I am always trying to send as many scenes as possible, as I said. But time is restricted and bugs that I cannot reproduce have little chance of getting fixed in my opinion. That is the hardest part for me - sometimes vray is quirky and is giving me a hard time, but getting it to be reproducable can be difficult sometimes and that is frustrating, because a lot of time I cannot put my finger on the actual problem

[zero-13]

I guess I was just trying to convey how GPU rendering being unstable in my experience is sometimes it's the GPU render engine, sometimes it's an Nvidia driver.

I have had issues with Redshift or V-Ray not working at all due to a newer drivers (never in unison) and having to revert to an older driver, several times, so many times that I guess I have accepted that GPU rendering is not anywhere near as stable as CPU and might not ever be. (Why yes I have been called Captain Obvious a time or two! )

But I also wanted to give a bit of a positive spin, in that V-Ray CPU is a nice backup, IF you are fortunate enough to have decent or GPU comparable CPU compute power, where as with other GPU only render engines would leave you totally out in the wind in such a scenario.

I know we all definitely want better and more stable GPU rendering, but GPUs being constantly mutable and evolving components, maybe there is no such thing in the immediate term.

Can you Imagine me as a counselor, I'd be like a non helpful sadness factory... reading through my responses, perhaps I've already accomplished this sans the "counselor" moniker lol

[glorybound]

It is a hit/miss for me, too. I just did an interior with GPU and it went great. So great I almost purchased a second Titan.