We are about to upgrade to VRay 2.0 and that obviously means an upgrade of graphics card. I have been reading quite alot and its quite overwhelming so, thought I would ask what is the best graphics card at the moment for RT ? I have looked at the benchmark tests and the GTX 680 is potentially the …

The 680 is a Kepler card, however it is a low-end card and apparently there are still some performance issues with it. Best regards, Vlado

Do you think the performance issues will be sorted out with future driver updates ?

I think u should wait, nvidia is like women now. U never know what can happen to it…

So which card would you recommend at the moment ?

[image] Differences in GI brightness on certain machines I think u should wait, nvidia is like women now. U never know what can happen to it… haha - great analogy :smile:

What? 680 is low-end card? Really do you think so? :open_mouth:

680 is a high end gamming - low end computing. It GPU render as fast as 580 so I would say… wait.

[image] RenderLayer overrides: File Name Prefix & Resolution Do you think the performance issues will be sorted out with future driver updates ? I really don’t know… What? 680 is low-end card? Really do you think so? :-OI meant for rendering; it may be great for gaming/viewports but I haven…

So what if I suggested a EVGA 3GB GeForce GTX 580 ?

Id say get EVGA 4gb GTX 680 since its a little bit faster than 580 and has 1gb more ram…

Which Graphics Card ?

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vlado April 11, 2012, 2:46pm 9

I really don’t know…

What? 680 is low-end card? Really do you think so? :-OI meant for rendering; it may be great for gaming/viewports but I haven’t been looking for this

Best regards,
Vlado

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