Inspired_Art opened this issue on Jan 30, 2023 · 9 posts
Inspired_Art posted Thu, 02 February 2023 at 2:02 PM
So it would be a waste of my time and money (on-board GPU)? I just read that GPU cards run extremely hot... which to me means hot AND loud.Just to clarify, IIRC, render box --prior to #13 ?-- uses CPU only. I've a basic VGA card & display in mine.
From what I've heard, on-board GPU chips are not very good at non-game rendering. Also, GPU cores take up die-space that, IMHO, is better used for CPU cores. As I mentioned above, 'Box' uses 15½ of its 16 cores to render. Usage swings from 100~~90 % of CPU resource, between 'pulses' of data to disk...
Okay, so not as fast as a 'state of art' mega-GPU card with a zillion cores and an astonishment of fast RAM, but I'm a hobbyist not a commercial artist, so hits my 'sweet spot' of cost vs performance. YMMV. If necessary, I could build a second 'Box' --plus KVM switch-- for a fraction the cost of a twice-as-fast GPU card, render two views in parallel...
Eddy