GPU Renderers Forum

#1

I would really like to see a forum dedicated to GPU renderers, like Octane, MachStudio, Fry and others. This technology is getting better every day and will become a standard in a few years as graphic cards get faster and faster.

#2

and will become a standard in a few years as graphic cards get faster and faster.

Well, that’s your opinion, its not fact. Currently it’s cheaper to buy cpus for the equivalent render speed than it is to by gpus. Gpu’s also expend massive amounts of heat, and most renderfarms would have to drastically change the cooling system to handle it.

Gpus also can’t store the huge amount of geo and texture data required for a feature in memory, RAM is still cheaper than video memory. I regurlay cracked 20gigs of RAM on the last project i worked on, video cards typically hold a lot less than that.

#3

I said it will become a standard, not the standard. There is definitely a market for fast, less complex rendering for deadline oriented media, like weekly television. And it’s just not my opinion, others share it.

There is a lot of diversity in rendering animation these days. No one solution covers all bases. And I think that you would have to admit that your current solution with 20 gigs of ram is very expensive.

#4

And I think that you would have to admit that your current solution with 20 gigs of ram is very expensive.

Show me a video card that has 20gigs of video memory, then we’ll talk :slight_smile:

#5

This observation is based on the notion that VRAM is used in the same way as RAM.
That is simply not the case. The data imported to the GPU is described differently to the CPU, so a scene which requires 20 GB RAM will not necessarily occupy the same footprint on VRAM.

Having said that, it would be nice to have a video card with 20 GB :slight_smile:

#6

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