I would look at the RTX 2060 rather than the GTX 1070, price should be about the same but the RTX will be faster, and supports hardware accelerated ray tracing, which a lot of renderers will support soon (if they don't already). Some other considerations though: If you're using a CPU renderer, your GPU doesn't matter, the…
If you feel you need a new GPU for renderers that primarily rely on it instead of the CPU, I'd go for at least a 2060 Super. Has the same amount of VRAM as the GTX 1070 (unlike a regular 2060) but can get up to about 3x the performance in Octane due to the RTX tech. But yea, your CPU is getting a bit old atp. Even a cheap…
I am using Cinema 4D to model and animate - beginner level. While i was looking for new tutorials, i saw that something like Octane or RedShift is always mentioned. I don't have the bucks to purchase any of those two at the moment, but i just wanted to ask you about your opinion. That is my current hardware:* i5 2500K CPU…
And yeah as @PolyHertz mentions, with an RTX series card, you'll see bigger gains for apps that support RTX acceleration, the benchmark numbers above are for games - which aren't using RTX stuff for the most part.