I have a 64 gig of RAM computer specs below. Would this graphics card assist in cutting my rendering times? Is a 4 gig card enough? Cheers

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You are totally showing off! Sounds pretty sweet. However, if you're using Daz Studio rather than Poser, you'll need all that muscle. You might consider getting hold of a few crays. They are on sale right now. Used only 5 Grand.

How about a pic of this monster?

4GB for doing GPU rendering is crap. I know because I have two 4GB GTX cards. You'll run out of texture memory and one of three things will happen: The render will crash, the render will slow down to a crawl because of memory swopouts or Poser will crash. One clothed figure with a furnished room prop is enough to go over 4 Gig. When using multiple figures I Use the same textures for hair/inside the mouth/ eyes to save memory.

Couldn't find any Cycles related benchmarks, this ones for vray [cg director vray benchmarks])https://www.cgdirector.com/vray-benchmark/). The benchmark suggests your cpus will be faster. After 30 minutes search I couldn't find any card of the same or newer generation to the p1000 that ran slower but I don't use Quadros so maybe unfair.

ghostship2 posted at 3:46AM Fri, 12 July 2019 - #4356747

4GB for doing GPU rendering is crap. I know because I have two 4GB GTX cards. You'll run out of texture memory and one of three things will happen: The render will crash, the render will slow down to a crawl because of memory swopouts or Poser will crash. One clothed figure with a furnished room prop is enough to go over 4 Gig. When using multiple figures I Use the same textures for hair/inside the mouth/ eyes to save memory.

If you have enough RAM (minimum would be 64GB) you can uncheck "Separate Process" and you won't get that Buffer Overrun/Out of memory error thing from Cycles/CUDA. The only issue is, you won't be able to use more than one video card if one of them would normally run out of video memory with the scene. But by doing this, you can use a 970 or whatever and it will simply spill into your system ram. The big drawback is that it will eat that RAM like a starving lion... I just upgraded my comp (switched out mobo/CPU/RAM) and went from 32 GB to 64 just because rendering using system ram would kill my resources and I couldn't do anything else or my comp would crash. Now with this 64GB, the scenes that were eating my ram up are barely even hitting 40% ram usage, so I can do other things like play games or do Photoshop/Vegas editing and not worry about system resources and stability.

The sad thing is, upgrading those three components was cheaper than finding a 1070/1080 to use as a slave render card so I could finally replace my 970.

Simple answer, no it wont do much for your render performance.

The P1000 only has 640 cuda cores, which pales in comparison to gaming cards in a similar price range.

A Gtx1060 with 6gig of ram is a better choice for basically the same money. And the GTX1060 is 3.5 times faster than a P1000, 4x + if it overclocks well.

Many thanks for your replies.Another suggestion that has been put to me is to save up extra money and insert a P4000.The only problem is that is twice the price! Would this graphics card assist in giving me faster rendering times for animations in both Poser Pro 11 and DAZ Studio 4.11? Cheers

Hmm, no SSD? Nothing is faster, right? I think the only drawback is finding it in the proper size. 4TB for roughly 1000 USD might seem a bit pricey but I know animations choke my machine to a crawl.

Stepping up to a P4000 puts you right back to where another gaming card is about the same thing. The P4000 has 1792 cuda cores, the GTX 1070 has 1920. Roughly the same card speed wise. And use the same GP104 gpu

If you really want to increase render speeds, the GTX 1080ti is a monster. 3584 cuda cores, which is more cores than what the P5000 has.

Cuda core count is one of the main considerations in rendering, so is GPU memory. Then there are the other things like slots available and size, power available, etc.

If your dead set on a quadro there is nothing wrong with that. You can find them for a good deal. But at the same time Quadro's have never been the fastest cards. Sure they have longer driver cycles than the gaming cards, most of the are single slot, etc. But they are not the fastest cards out there. They are production cards designed to be stable, better fan life, etc, with certified drivers specifically for high end applications. And they are usually clocked far slower than gaming cards as well, that use the exact same GPU chip....