ironsoul posted at 10:06PM Sun, 11 December 2016 - #4292388

jura11 posted at 10:43AM Sun, 11 December 2016 - #4292383

ironsoul posted at 7:21AM Sun, 11 December 2016 - #4292381

lwperkins posted at 6:25AM Sun, 11 December 2016 - #4292294

I just upgraded to Poser Pro 11 myself--- and I have an opportunity to get a better computer to run it on--and a better graphics card. Does anyone know what the "ideal" setup is to run Poser 11/poser pro11? I would like to improve my Superfly renders--my old machine can't seem to get past a certain level before bailing out of renders after a few hours, and I need something more in the range of 30-40 minutes to be useful (I make stuff so I need to render over and over again, and make promos)

The power of the GPU will have a big impact on Superfly render time, much more than the CPU. Also the new 10x0 series of cards are significantly faster than the earlier generations (1x1080 is faster than 2x980). My suggestion is to look at a NVidia comparison chart that shows the CUDA core count and price so you can see the impact of cost/performance then chose your system around that. This question might be better put in the general Poser forum as it Reality and Octane users not on Poser 11 will see it.

Hi there

I would agree GPU will have bigger impact on render speeds,but I would disagree older GTX9xx series will be slower than newer GTX10xx series,you can check several benches what people do in Poser or Octane and DS where,older generation 980Ti is similarly fast than GTX1080 or where older generation Titan X is faster than GTX1080,which shouldn't be possible as GTX1080 is higher clocked etc,I would suspect CUDA is still in development and still is developing and when we will see bigger gains on newer GTX1080 out will be newer generation of cards

I still think older generation of 980Ti and Titan X are best for rendering and used these cards can be bought for very reasonable money,new generation of GTX1080 or 1070 are still expensive

Hope this helps

Thanks,Jura

Lol, my post backed fired on me - was trying to put together a strong case for going for the 10x0 and not their 970 or 980 counterparts (no 1080ti at the moment) as I feel the newer cards will be a better long term investment. BTW I should have said the "1080=2x980" was from the NVIDIA presentation. Thanks for the reply Jura,

Hi there

I wouldn't say yours post back fired,I would say you are assuming GTX10xx series are faster as they're faster in games,I would assume same,but compared my GTX1080 which is clocked at 1940MHz and Titan X which is clocked up to 1450MHz and Titan X is slightly ahead in rendering,not a lot,but is Few months back I've done tests with Titan X and GTX780,where GTX780 has been similarly fast as Titan X,I've done probably 100 tests like in Poser or in DS and tried to find best bucket size etc and in DS this has been same,there are been differences in speeds,but not massive,over on Blender forums people reported with Titan X or GTX9xx series they're have slower render speeds with SSS which I can confirm this does happen,with Titan X my simple render took me 3.45 and with GTX780 same render took me 1.45 minutes,this has been simple test

This has been sorted I think in latest Cycles build and renders are now similarly fast enough,but I can't confirm if GTX780 indeed is faster or slower than GTX1080 or Titan X as I don't own anymore GTX780

I still think GTX10xx will be faster on longer run than older generation as this has been with GTX 9xx series vs GT7xx series in Octane,but I don't think there will be massive gains on GTX10xx as Octane devs reported,maybe some gains but I don't expect GTX10xx will be fast as 2xGTX980

As I said in previous post,most of devs still trying to optimize CUDA as is new and we should see some gains in longer run

Hope this helps

Thanks,Jura