Re: OT: Graphic card for optimous performance with Redshift

2014-05-21 Thread Dan Yargici
All said and done, Redshift is crazy-good though... Just saying. ...and how often are we rendering 100mio polys in commercials? In those instances I'll split my scenes into layers and render them 50x faster (not a joke) thank you very much. DAN On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 2:41 AM, Raffaele

Re: OT: Graphic card for optimous performance with Redshift

2014-05-21 Thread Tim Crowson
Redshift can handle that just fine. I know the term 'out-of-core' has been tossed around a lot, but it bears repeating. When Redshift either 1) reaches its maximum geocache amount (which is currently capped at 4GB for various reasons), or 2) reaches the ram limits of the card, it sends data

Re: OT: Graphic card for optimous performance with Redshift

2014-05-20 Thread Ognjen Vukovic
What about the titan z series? Are they out yet? They could probably pack quite a punch :) On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 9:35 AM, Stefan Kubicek s...@tidbit-images.comwrote: I second that, the 780 with 6gb (~2300 cores vs ~2800 of the Titan) is currently the biggest bang for the buck. Make sure

Re: OT: Graphic card for optimous performance with Redshift

2014-05-20 Thread Stefan Kubicek
Last time I checked they were more expensive than two separate titans. What about the titan z series? Are they out yet? They could probably pack quite a punch :) On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 9:35 AM, Stefan Kubicek s...@tidbit-images.com wrote: I second that, the 780 with 6gb (~2300 cores vs

Re: OT: Graphic card for optimous performance with Redshift

2014-05-20 Thread Cristobal Infante
If you have two 6gb cards, does Redshift consider this as 12gb of RAM or only 6gb? On 20 May 2014 10:32, Stefan Kubicek s...@tidbit-images.com wrote: Last time I checked they were more expensive than two separate titans. What about the titan z series? Are they out yet? They could probably

Re: OT: Graphic card for optimous performance with Redshift

2014-05-20 Thread Christian Freisleder
no, vram only gets used by the card it's built in. but 6 gb vram is quite a lot and can't be compared to cpu ram. Means, if your scene uses like 15gb in Vray that doesn't mean 6gb is not enough for the scene in Redshift. Christian On 20.05.2014 11:48, Cristobal Infante wrote: If you have two

Re: OT: Graphic card for optimous performance with Redshift

2014-05-20 Thread Stefan Kubicek
When you render on the CPU directly from your DCC app, you have your scene in mem twice. Once in e.g. Soft, and once translated into what the renderer can render, both are stored in RAM, hence the memory consumption appears relatively high. In case of Redshift, video memory on the card (VRAM)

Re: OT: Graphic card for optimous performance with Redshift

2014-05-20 Thread Raffaele Fragapane
I wouldn't even say it's generally true. The memory footprint of a scene to be rendered is hardly ever that directly related to the footprint of the scene in the DCC client. Acceleration structures paired with what global features you use alone can reduce or multiply the footprint at any given

Re: OT: Graphic card for optimous performance with Redshift

2014-05-20 Thread Steven Caron
exactly! i was actually saying, more specifically, that... Translated scene data is usually a lot more efficient to store than the actual, raw scene... (geometry) is what is generally true. there are many other parts of the renderer that can consume memory and put you way beyond the original

RE: OT: Graphic card for optimous performance with Redshift

2014-05-20 Thread Matt Lind
: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Stefan Kubicek Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2014 5:18 AM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: OT: Graphic card for optimous performance with Redshift When you render on the CPU directly from your

Re: OT: Graphic card for optimous performance with Redshift

2014-05-20 Thread Steven Caron
sorry to nit pick but... in the hair case we don't deal with triangles anymore. if you are using arnold, you are raytracing directly the curve. On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 5:48 PM, Matt Lind ml...@carbinestudios.com wrote: With hair, the DCC will often display guide hairs as curves, or some

RE: OT: Graphic card for optimous performance with Redshift

2014-05-20 Thread Matt Lind
card for optimous performance with Redshift sorry to nit pick but... in the hair case we don't deal with triangles anymore. if you are using arnold, you are raytracing directly the curve. On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 5:48 PM, Matt Lind ml...@carbinestudios.commailto:ml...@carbinestudios.com wrote

Re: OT: Graphic card for optimous performance with Redshift

2014-05-20 Thread Steven Caron
i think we are all too smart for this thread... :) On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 6:03 PM, Matt Lind ml...@carbinestudios.com wrote: You still need to store the results at each sample on each hair.

Re: OT: Graphic card for optimous performance with Redshift

2014-05-20 Thread Raffaele Fragapane
Speak for yourself, I'm perfectly adequately stupid for any thread. On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 11:05 AM, Steven Caron car...@gmail.com wrote: i think we are all too smart for this thread... :) On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 6:03 PM, Matt Lind ml...@carbinestudios.comwrote: You still need to store

OT: Graphic card for optimous performance with Redshift

2014-05-19 Thread David Rivera
Hi, now that Redshift is officially out and running smoothly, I´d like to ask you guys what Graphic Cards for best GPU performance would be optimum for an I7 stream core? I´m taking a look at: EVGA EVGA GeForce GTX TITAN SuperClocked 6GB GDDR5 384bit, Dual-Link DVI-I, DVI-D, HDMI,DP, SLI Ready

Re: OT: Graphic card for optimous performance with Redshift

2014-05-19 Thread Tim Crowson
The Titans are fantastic, but I haven't seen one priced at $1000 in several weeks. I would also skip the Quadro line altogether, as those cards don't offer nearly as much bang for your buck (where Redshift is concerned!) as the upper tiers of the GTX line. If you can find a Titan at $1000, I

Re: OT: Graphic card for optimous performance with Redshift

2014-05-19 Thread Christian Freisleder
hey, the titan black is very fast, but considering the benchmarks (http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/high_end_gpus.html) the 780 isn't lame either, and the 6gb version is close to half the price of a titan. so if you want a bargain that's still fast, I would go for the 780 6gb. Christian On