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What to look for in graphic card for CGI?

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Hi,
can you pls tell me on what should i pay attention  what when buying graphic card?
i would love geforce gtx since i think its totally fine for nice CGI results and fits my budget but currently i can't find it on the market (im not in US) as  they said situation is a bit screwd up because of covid situation. So, do u have any alternatives?

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  • oglu
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    I wont by any other than a nvidia card. Cause i need to render on GPU. And AMD cards arnt supported by renderer we use.
    I would go for a gaming card with a lot of video ram. For example a 3060 with 12gb.
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  • poopipe
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    poopipe grand marshal polycounter
    I wouldn't run anything other than Nvidia on the grounds that they have always had  better driver support than AMD

    I'd be less concerned about total memory than memory bandwidth

    80 series cards are significantly better in designer/painter than 70 series because of the wider memory bus even though historically they have had the same amount of memory

    If you're interested in Maya viewport performance then don't bother, its not the GPU making it slow unless you're running something truly shit



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  • oglu
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    oglu polycount lvl 666
    I vote for more vram cause we have trouble to render our scenes if the card has only 8gb. Renderman xpu for example recommends a min of 11gb vram. 


    But if you dont render heavy scenes 8gb are fine. 
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  • poopipe
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    poopipe grand marshal polycounter
    That's a fair point if using GPU accelerated renderers.

    If you're targeting unreal/unity etc and don't have 3090 money I'd take a previous gen 80series over a current gen 60 series
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  • focus_method
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    focus_method polycounter lvl 5
    i am targeting substance painter,unreal,marmoset toolbag.

    is this ok?


    Gigabyte NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050TI LP OC 4GB

    or

    ASUS AMD Radeon STRIX-RX560 O4G EVO GAMING

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  • oglu
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    oglu polycount lvl 666
    For Substance i recommend min 8gb vram. 
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  • gnoop
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    gnoop sublime tool
    What those  mystical creatures are,  named videocards , that always comes  with "currently unavailable" notice?    =)
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  • janoshx
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    janoshx polycounter lvl 6
    oglu said:
    For Substance i recommend min 8gb vram. 
    I strongly agree with this. I would recommend 1080ti, 2080ti, titan V or rtx or 3090 if you can afford it.

    Try to find second hand card...
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  • poopipe
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    poopipe grand marshal polycounter
    1080 is the oldest workable card if you want to paint at 4k 

    2070 super is ok

    3070 seems fine based on the 100+ artists I have using them, 3080 is definitely fine 

    If you're on a lower budget the 1660ti is probably a better bet than a 3050 - I can't say for sure since I've not tested low end stuff but on paper you want to avoid anything ending in 50 

    You won't save any money on a second hand card. 1070s are going for more than original RRP on eBay and my 3080 is currently worth almost double what I paid for it 
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