Anonymous at Tue, 17 May 2022 10:38:42 UTC No. 897736

Get a gpu with 12gb or 24gb of vram

Anonymous at Tue, 17 May 2022 10:44:50 UTC No. 897737

render times depend entirely on the renderer of your choice and scene complexity.
all path tracers (like cycles) will take hours to render longer scenes regardless of hardware.
realtime engines (like eevee) will be significantly faster but it'll look like vidya - you might want to consider rendering in UE5 if you go this route.

as >>897736 suggests, you will be constrained by VRAM.
rendering is one of those things where you really do get more the more you pay.
for hobbyists its not worth going beyond a 3090 at the moment.

do not buy amd.

Anonymous at Tue, 17 May 2022 11:01:11 UTC No. 897740

>>897737
>you might want to consider rendering in UE5 if you go this route.
Not him, but why?

Anonymous at Tue, 17 May 2022 11:03:22 UTC No. 897743

>>897736
Noted.
>>897737
>all path tracers (like cycles) will take hours to render longer scenes regardless of hardware.
eh I'll use eevee for the coomer stuff but cycles for other things.
> you might want to consider rendering in UE5 if you go this route.
do people ever render coomer stuff in UE5? lol sounds like overkill.
>rendering is one of those things where you really do get more the more you pay.
>for hobbyists its not worth going beyond a 3090 at the moment.
So is a 3070 worth it? If let's say I want to make a 15 second video at tops at 1080p, how long would it take on a 3070?

Anonymous at Tue, 17 May 2022 11:24:56 UTC No. 897747

>>897740
i prefer the look + RT options.

>>897743
>So is a 3070 worth it?
depends entirely on how you value your time and money.

>If let's say I want to make a 15 second video at tops at 1080p, how long would it take on a 3070?
difficult to answer this. there's nothing stopping you from making a test scene with your current set up, checking render times on your gpu and then comparing benchmark times of your card vs other cards and trying to extrapolate. if anything having a test scene ready will let you immediately benchmark your new card and decide whether it's worth keeping or not.

Anonymous at Tue, 17 May 2022 11:38:18 UTC No. 897750

>>897735
Don't DON'T but a 3070. The 3080 has twice the iray iteration rate. The prices are getting affordable.
Just don't.

Anonymous at Tue, 17 May 2022 11:39:19 UTC No. 897751

>>897750
And shit 8gb of ram instead of 10 to 12.

Anonymous at Tue, 17 May 2022 13:22:18 UTC No. 897781

>>897747
Alright thanks
>>897750
3080 is too expensive. How long could I wait?

Anonymous at Tue, 17 May 2022 13:32:21 UTC No. 897782

>>897781
Here the price dif is 300 euros. You should definitevely save. You're making a mistake getting the 3070 if there is any kind of rendering involved.

Anonymous at Tue, 17 May 2022 13:33:22 UTC No. 897783

>>897782
Mistake i made.

Anonymous at Tue, 17 May 2022 13:35:25 UTC No. 897784

Just go with an nvidia gpu, I have a 3060 and I can render up to 300 samples on cycles in less than 30 seconds using optix

Anonymous at Tue, 17 May 2022 13:52:28 UTC No. 897790

>>897782
>>897783
Better be worth it. What PSU should I go with? Will my 3500x bottleneck?
>>897784
I need it for rendering videos.

Anonymous at Tue, 17 May 2022 14:02:41 UTC No. 897791

>>897790
fyi, nvidia 4xxx series cards will probably be announced w/in 6-8 weeks.
normally i'd tell you to wait, but supply being what it is these days, things are a bit more complicated.
personally, i would still wait.

Anonymous at Tue, 17 May 2022 14:50:53 UTC No. 897802

>>897791
the decision is simple - get a 3060 now and use optix and wait after that if the 40 series will be better and not use extreme amounts of power

Anonymous at Tue, 17 May 2022 14:53:23 UTC No. 897804

>>897802
>use optix
or he waits a couple months, gets ~50% more perf for the same money and doesn't have to rely on a smearing filter that low-standard retards think is magic.

Anonymous at Tue, 17 May 2022 15:03:45 UTC No. 897807

>>897804
anon, no generation gives 50% perf for the same money. I've been buying nvidia gpus for over 20 years now. They are talking about huge power supply requirements which cost money every day from the electric bill. Also, no one is talking about any kind of filter, we are talking about rendering with optix which is the successor to cuda and gives the exact same result as cuda but much faster. How old are you, LOL?

Anonymous at Tue, 17 May 2022 15:10:02 UTC No. 897808

>>897807
you know what? i actually concede; i'm being retarded. i still think it's a bad idea buying a gpu weeks before a new series is due.

i suspect increased power draw will be offset by perf gains, and i'd take faster renders over efficiency.

Anonymous at Tue, 17 May 2022 18:00:05 UTC No. 897833

>>897790
>Better be worth it
Don't take my word for it, look at benchmarks.
It's not 50% better more like 25/30%.
Still. I got my 3070 for 850e when the 3080 where still 1600e. Now i want top sell my 3070.