https://arstechnica.co.uk/gadgets/2017/03/nvidia-gtx-1080-ti-price-specs-release-date/ Not long to wait now :slight_smile:

hmmm. so if i bought 6 1070’s and some power I could use all 6 cards? do you know if theres a limit?

you should be able to use all 6, am at 4 now, waiting on the 1080 ti to make it 5

nice. does that mean you’d be limited in ram usage to the older cards? Do you know if processor frequency affects GPU rendering? Or is it just more cuda cores and ram the better?

[image] Physically inaccurate DOF nice. does that mean you’d be limited in ram usage to the older cards? Do you know if processor frequency affects GPU rendering? Or is it just more cuda cores and ram the better? not sure what you mean by limited on older cards, older cards some of them cannot…

Sorry I meant if you mix 1080’s and 1080ti’s, are you limited to the 1080’s ram? And not utilizing all of the 1080ti’s? I do a lot a arch renderings that take a LOT of ram and I want to use GPU in production but I’m not sure how much ram I need.

[image] Physically inaccurate DOF Sorry I meant if you mix 1080’s and 1080ti’s, are you limited to the 1080’s ram? And not utilizing all of the 1080ti’s? I do a lot a arch renderings that take a LOT of ram and I want to use GPU in production but I’m not sure how much ram I need. I would sugges…

Yeh i read that article dabarti wrote - amazing. maybe the next gen gtx’s will support nvlink. fingers crossed

[image] Physically inaccurate DOF Sorry I meant if you mix 1080’s and 1080ti’s, are you limited to the 1080’s ram? And not utilizing all of the 1080ti’s? I do a lot a arch renderings that take a LOT of ram and I want to use GPU in production but I’m not sure how much ram I need. correct, your …

[image] So Slow no difference at all except that cards run much cooler Just a question on install to double check myself…so power goes to the 16x board as well as the graphics card as it normally would, and the 1x board plugs into the 16x slot on the MB, replacing the graphics card…do I have t…

yes, the gpu plugs into the pcie slot of the psu and the extender as well has a port for pluging into one power cable from the psu as well, forgot the type, then the extender plugs into the slot of the gpu on the mother board, i have a simple wood frame as my setup as well, didnt bother doing anyth…

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I would suggest waiting for NVLink to be more available. Then u can share GPU ram…

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