Some people make do with 6 GB or less of VRAM on their graphics card(s), but do yourself a favor and shoot for at least 8GB if your budget will allow.Ĥ) For the other stuff, there are things like scene optimizer that you can use to lower your texture map sizes, and there are other tricks you can use such as rendering the characters in multiple passes, with different characters and/or background items being rendered in each pass, and then merging them in photoshop, etc.

When I was working on my dual 1080 system (8 GB of VRAM for each GPU), I was able to handle most of my rendering for the VN and Comic I was working on within the 6.4 GB limitation (Windows often Reserves 10% + 10%, or roughly 19% of the VRAM for other things). Ideally, you should consider the RTX 2080 Ti, or if you have a huge budget for such things the RTX Titan, but as I said, even the 2070 can be quite useful to you.

This means faster renders on the 2xxx cards.

It looks like the RTX 2xxx cards, which have additional hardware which is primarily targetted at raytracing, now support usage of those assets in the latest version of Daz Studio. The GTX 1070s, or RTX 2070s, can be had for fairly reasonable, and they usually pack 8GB of VRAM. For serious rendering, I'd say 8GB should be a minimum target. You'll want to get a card with a lot of VRAM if you end up shopping for one. You can of course render in Iray in CPU only mode, but those renders are MUCH slower.Ģ) If you use 3Delight for your rendering, or are content with Open GL for some reason, then your renders will probably be CPU only to begin with, which means the graphics card isn't much help for things other than the Daz viewport.ģ) Back to the Iray thing. For other viewport nodes, an AMD GPU or APU (say the Ryzen 2400G with integrated Vega graphics), you can use the AMD card to drive your viewport/monitor, which can help with responsiveness if it's driving your monitor while the Nvidia GPU is busy baking a render. OK, as someone that has an unholy AMD/Nvidia GPU hybrid system, I have a couple of thoughts on this.ġ) If you use Daz Iray for your rendering needs, you NEED to get an Nvidia GPU for the actual rendering, and the Daz Iray viewport.

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