Should i buy SSD or more RAM for 8K texturing?

Gandosh

Hello guys! I've been struggling with 8K texturing. Every software that using 8K textures becoming very very slow. Rendering, painting textures on mari etc. In photoshop its workable. But its not for render. When i click render button maya becomes not responding like 5 minutes then it starts rendering. Its really painful. I have 16gb ram, I7 -4770, gtx 780, Z97-D3H motherboard with normal Western digital hard drive. 

P.S i do know rendering gets slow when texture size is high :P

oglu

more vram and a SSD for mari... 

skyline5gtr

I Love my SSD, besides boot speed and file loading speed it makes no noise which is fantastic 

PolyHertz

Mari relies very heavily on your hard drive, so I'd go with an SSD.

JedTheKrampus

SSD all the way, also if your renderer has some sort of tiled format with mipmaps like .tex or tiled EXR depending on the renderer you should make use of it as it can drastically reduce the amount of time needed to start up a render.

Gandosh

Thanks guys! 

Burpee

I thought it was more about the GPU ? Mari need a strong GPU to load the texture on the screen right ? 

oglu

both...

Gandosh

Burpee said:

I thought it was more about the GPU ? Mari need a strong GPU to load the texture on the screen right ? 

When i load 8K textures i can see everything just fine, without slow. But painting, projecting is slow. So i thought my ram or hdd is not enough. 
If GPU was the issue. In marmoset toolbag or other realtime rendering engine would've slowed down. But it wasn't the issue :P

thomasp

it's probably the HD. it has been a while for me but when using mari i recall it was stressing the disk like mad (i had no SSD at the time).

anyway 8K does not sound like a really useable resolution. i have a slightly faster machine than you and can feel the strain already with 4K and many layers/texture channels. memory requirements spin out of control really quickly. i'd look into splitting up large textures into smaller ones and then isolating the texture tiles that are currently being worked on, replacing finished ones with low res proxies.
not sure if mari has the functionality but e.g. in mudbox you can load/unload tiles manually.