JVRenderer posted at 9:05AM Tue, 23 February 2016 - #4256813

If you have about $400 to $500 to spare you can upgrade to a decent nVidia Video Card and Power Supply A GTX970 with 4GB is about $350, this is a mid end card with 1600 cudas, Unless you have a decent Powersupply you ,may need to fork out another $150 for a platinum 80 certified, 850W power supply

The performance is significant. That configuration is nowhere near pro. My dream rig is $3500 (two Titan Xs with 12 Gb each) which should be about 3 times faster than my current rig

I don't render in Superfly yet, but I've been rendering in Octane. I've tried Reality and Iray with CPU render option switch on... It was no way near the speed of GPU renders.

You can't really compare apple with oranges. If you have a lower end nVidia card with only a few hundred CUDAs it will not give you the speed you expected. The GTX970 has 1600 cudas. the Titan X 3300 cudas. I have two older GTX760's they each have 1100 cudas so combined 2200 cudas.

As with CPU,rendering if you have an older single or dual threads CPU with lower speed it won't give you fast results. You probably have to invest in a ,multi threads / multi core CPU to get the result similar to a Mid end Video Card. Or you could build a renderfarm with multiple computers. Of course, there is a matter of cost.

So, no mater how you slice it...whether GPU or CPU rendering, If you want speed, you gotta pay.

No doubt. You have to take stock of what you are doing with the computer. I play keyboards and use my computer as the center of my recording setup. I would rather spend money on the CPU than the video card. If all you are doing is 3D art then the mondo video card makes more sense in that situation.

W10, Ryzen 5 1600x, 16Gb,RTX2060Super+GTX980, PP11, 11.3.740