The render quality isn't due to the laptop performance if it's rendered in unbiased (bucket) way. In this case, If the laptop performance isn't enough, it will simply not render at all. Only if it gets rendered in biased or progressive way that the performance may interfere. What software are u using as a renderer?
I have a half decent laptop which gets stuff done, but I've recently got into a redshift course and I assume my 1050 2gb is soon going to be useless once i get to do renders. I can't afford a full rig for the time being, but I can get a decent gpu and i want to connect it externally. But i'm unsure about one thing, is my…
@Yerus: Bucket in V-Ray is just the way the rendering is split up (as opposed to progressive). For GPU brute force rendering (which is close to unbiased if you don't limit it) bucket rendering mode wasn't even available in the beginning iirc.
@Yerus "Unbiased and bucket are exact synonyms" Not sure where to go from here. Agree to disagree? Else you'd have to help me understand where you're coming from. How do you define bucket? Are you using a specific rendering software? Something from Blender? Yes, render speed is due to performance, but you initially…
Generally speaking, it breaks down like this: For GPU rendering, you need to fit all the content into VRAM. Content generally means: meshes, textures, special effects, plus room for render buffers for various passes and post processing effects. The video card needs to have the data in its memory to render it. Some…
The video card will do the rendering, but the data has to get there first. 2 GB is indeed quite low, but that of course depends on the scenes you are planning to render. Some GPU renderers (and apparently redshift as well) allow for data swapping or utilizing the system ram when video ram runs out, but this will slow down…
Redshift (on maya), which is biased as i have just figured out. The laptop performances will have a impact on the rendering then, but how exactly? Octane is unbiased. Redshift can also use RAM for renders. I plan to get an 8gb card and i have no idea what limitations comes with it. What kind of scene can you render with…
I could also say based on my experience that GPU renderers are interactive only on simple scenes and once you scene is getting huge with gazilion of instances, hi res displacement, hairs etc they are somewhat starting to get less convenient than CPU ones. They still do final render quicker but getting less interactive than…
welp, i'm going with a 1070 ti, and my external dock is arriving soon. Gonna go spend some time reading forums and blogs to figure out more details about how it all works. Thanks for all the answers, it did clear out some of my doubts. it's a good investment anyways. On my render tests though my cpu is all on 100, how is…
I am using Octane gpu render . it's biased one if I am right. Video Ram is the main limiter. A scene should be loaded in video memory. It could work with RAM too but getting super slow and unstable. My 6 gb video memory is hardly enough for what I render.Form what I read in Octane forum people do use e-gpu with mac books.…