OK...I give in...I am going to get an invidia card(never mind that scream behind me of a man that spent 300£ on another graphic card already for my other tower....a non-NVIDIA card...)

Will a GeForce GT730 do the job?

He has restricted my spending on this lil jump soooo.....

(cant complain really he just bought me a 2t portable hd soo....)

For rendering ? It will run but you wont be seeing amazing performance or be able to handle large scenes. For that you want something like a 970GTX.

https://render.otoy.com/faqs.php

For rendering ? It will run but you wont be seeing amazing performance or be able to handle large scenes. For that you want something like a 970GTX.

ohh I do not think he will like the sound of that......

nVIDIA is gearing up to relase their new monster Titan-X 12GB so it's possible that prices on their old stuff will go down. Maybe wait a bit and see what happens ?

Hi Elisa.

There are several factors you need to know when venturing into the current Octane built (2.xx)

It mainly uses nVidia card's GPU(s)

The more 'CUDA's you have the faster your renders, more VRAM will handle your textures better.

The GT730 has 96 cuda cores. It will do the job, put very slowly.

The GTX 970 has 1664 cuda cores, that's 17X more cores than the GT730

The average price of the GT730 is $50, The GTX 970 $350. There is a large gap in pricing.

I would suggest maybe something in between (perhaps a GTX 750 with 512 Cudas) around $100

Another thing you have to consider is your power supply. Some of these higher end cards are very power hungry.

The GTX 970 requires a min (500W) power supply

The GTX 750 (300W)

Octane supports multiple video cards. It can harness both GPU's power for faster rendering

So, you can add on as many video cards as you want.

My setup has two GTX760's. It is fast, but I would love to have two GTX 980's on my new rig next year.

In conclusion, I think if money is a factor, I would suggest a GTX750 4gb first or if your PS can support, a GTX760 4gb ($200)

Happy rendering

JV

Although Octane can use multiple graphics cards it only uses the memory of lowest memory card because all the graphic cards have to load into their memory. So if you got a 4Gb and 2Gb card each will use 2Gb. Pity it does not add together but there you are. So mostly you are better off with one good card.

Although Octane can use multiple graphics cards it only uses the memory of lowest memory card because all the graphic cards have to load into their memory. So if you got a 4Gb and 2Gb card each will use 2Gb. Pity it does not add together but there you are. So mostly you are better off with one good card.

This is no longer true in the latest version of the octane render (2.2). There are no more limits on the number of textures or the total size of textures. It will offload them to CPU RAM if needed. But it will cost performance

Good news. I only got ver 2.1. I better visit their site for the latest info. Thanks.

Hi Elisa.

There are several factors you need to know when venturing into the current Octane built (2.xx)

It mainly uses nVidia card's GPU(s)

The more 'CUDA's you have the faster your renders, more VRAM will handle your textures better.

The GT730 has 96 cuda cores. It will do the job, put very slowly.

The GTX 970 has 1664 cuda cores, that's 17X more cores than the GT730

The average price of the GT730 is $50, The GTX 970 $350. There is a large gap in pricing.

I would suggest maybe something in between (perhaps a GTX 750 with 512 Cudas) around $100

Another thing you have to consider is your power supply. Some of these higher end cards are very power hungry.

The GTX 970 requires a min (500W) power supply

The GTX 750 (300W)

Octane supports multiple video cards. It can harness both GPU's power for faster rendering

So, you can add on as many video cards as you want.

My setup has two GTX760's. It is fast, but I would love to have two GTX 980's on my new rig next year.

In conclusion, I think if money is a factor, I would suggest a GTX750 4gb first or if your PS can support, a GTX760 4gb ($200)

Happy rendering

JV

He has found one on ebuyer for 89£ ...so we are thinking of that one. the power supply is not an issue we (read, -he-) has checked that. I mainly want the NVIDIA because it seems all the GPU render engines only use it. I need to "come up to speed" if you forgive the pun, on rendering. AND the INVIDIA seems the be the path I need to go down.

WHY on earth it cant use any card that is able to handle the work I do not know. My husband said other cards could handle it...just Octain and DS have chosen to only go with INVIDIA...We are building (slowly) this lovely beast of a machine only to see that I need an INVIDIA in it to get anywhere....

nVIDIA is gearing up to relase their new monster Titan-X 12GB so it's possible that prices on their old stuff will go down. Maybe wait a bit and see what happens ?

What happened is that you can buy used ones for just over 2k before they were even publicly released for 4500. Do the math on that. The people that were luck enough to get them early re selling them already..

There are presently 3 of them for sale at amazon.

OpenCl rendering is going to hurt them as well, since you can buy more bang for the buck at ATI in the opencl department.

Hi there

Personally I would wait when Octane 3 will be released,as per Otoy announcement,new Octane 3 will support in future(3.x) will support OpenCL and this means you can use AMD/Intel GPU or CPU which supports OpenCL for rendering and you don't need to have Nvidia and CUDA...

But if you want to use right now,I would go with GTX770 or GTX780 which have best results in Octane,"new" GTX970 or GTX980 are still slower than older 780 in Octane,you can search on that on Overclock.net or on Otoy forum 

New GTX are hit(980) and miss(970 and their 4GB gate),if you are gamer then you are in win,win situation,but this depends what you want from yours GPU,I've went with ATI R9 290 which I bought due the better OpenCL performance as I'm using lots of SW and renderers which supports OpenCL and there ATI/AMD are bit better than Nvidia and performance and price ratio is bit better too,although new R9 390X(if will be available in summer should be beast too)

I've been owner of the numerous Nvidia cards,but after few issues with their drivers(with ATI/AMD drivers I've got too few problems) and mainly Poser crashes on start up etc I've went with AMD/ATI for now,I'm not fanboy as I've been owner of numerous Nvidia and ATI cards 

New GTX Titan-X seems have great results,but until I will not see their performance in Octane I would be very careful with their purchase and price can be too bit issue,but really depends on few other bits and pieces and then I would decide,but personally I would wait for Octane 3 and OpenCL support 

Hope this helps

Thanks,Jura