Will a new Nvidia GPU greatly reduce the Blender 3D rendering time?

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Will a new Nvidia GPU greatly reduce the Blender 3D rendering time I have an AMD 8350 at 4.0, 16 GB of 1600 kingston ram, Plextor sata 3 ssd, windows 7 home premium 64-bit, Asus m5a88-v evo with a sata 3 controller on the MOBO with 1 PCIE X16 2.0 bus being filled with a Nvidia msi 550 ti oc cyclone with I think only 192 Cuda cores, HP Pavilion 23xi 23 inch IPS monitor Basically my questions are.




1. Will i see a massive time reduced by the time i hit render to the time it finishes in blender?


2. with my configuration and PCIE 2.0 compared to cpu ram etc will i still get the same amount of Cuda Cores available Im going to have a $600 to $700 budget.



I don't play very many games but every once in a blue moon i will play on Steam im more of a multimedia junky more than anything and i can always wait till the next iteration of geforce cards come out some time this year they will probably have like 2900-3300 cuda cores for my budget.


with having the system how it is will i see a bottle neck in how much cuda cores i will have IDK a PCI 2.0 not being 3.0 i mean will i see any drop in cuda cores i know that sounds really weird sorry for my spelling any help is very appreciated Thanks again.

 

[Arkadrel]

1) yes, I believe blender scales really well with the GPU strength.
Its cuda only so it ll have to be a nvidia card.

the older 5xx series really give the best bang for the buck, so unless you plan on getting a GTX titan, then simply something like a 580 is probably the best use of money. The 5xx series did compute better than the 6xx/7xx ones at lower card tiers I believe, which is why a 580 will give alot of bang for buck, compaired to a newer card (unless you go for a monster one, like a titan).

2) PCIE 2.0 wont factor into it any. You shouldnt lose any performance because of it.

 

[PPB]

1) yes, I believe blender scales really well with the GPU strength.
Its cuda only so it ll have to be a nvidia card.

the older 5xx series really give the best bang for the buck, so unless you plan on getting a GTX titan, then simply something like a 580 is probably the best use of money. The 5xx series did compute better than the 6xx/7xx ones at lower card tiers I believe, which is why a 580 will give alot of bang for buck, compaired to a newer card (unless you go for a monster one, like a titan).

2) PCIE 2.0 wont factor into it any. You shouldnt lose any performance because of it.

But with 1.5gb you are limited in poly count, text and frame buffer size. Better settle with

 

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1) yes, I believe blender scales really well with the GPU strength.
Its cuda only so it ll have to be a nvidia card.

the older 5xx series really give the best bang for the buck, so unless you plan on getting a GTX titan, then simply something like a 580 is probably the best use of money. The 5xx series did compute better than the 6xx/7xx ones at lower card tiers I believe, which is why a 580 will give alot of bang for buck, compaired to a newer card (unless you go for a monster one, like a titan).

2) PCIE 2.0 wont factor into it any. You shouldnt lose any performance because of it.

IDK I always thought that it had to do with how many cuda cores and the overall architecture and algorithms that nvidia uses for each and every gpu release within each series i mean i would think that the 670 would be like the 580 if not faster than it and the 760 is the same as the 670 if not faster etc.
and i know all about the frame buffer and how much GB i need im thinking more like at least 3-4 GB if not 5-6 GB cards cuz i plan on getting a 4k Monitor or tv when they come down in price.

 

[tweakboy]

Yes and No. Also need powerful rig to do it.

 

[Imouto]

A GTX 580 3GB is the very best bang for the buck, much better price/perf ratio than a new or used GTX 780. I have one and it keeps up for really complex shader nodes and high poly count scenes. It's really rare to be able to snatch one though, the only ones selling them are gamers that have no clue about how great they are for rendering.

By the time 4K becomes mainstream you will have way better options than the current ones.

 

[Stuka87]

Been a while since I used Blender on a regular basis. But in the past only certain render modes supported offloading to the GPU. And at least at that time, the ones I used were not among those.

But I am sure things have changed in the last few years.

Pop open MSI Afterburner while rendering and see if your GPU usage hits 100%.

 

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Okay you guys you have shore done it talked me in to it I'm getting a gtx 580 3GB once my tax returns come the first think im buying is the 580 ya I see people always post GTX 580s on ebay all the time its like when im looking at stuff to buy on ebay for 20-30 minutes of looking as soon as i hit back to the ebay home buttne i see like 4-7 gtx 580s for sell so a refresh from 20-30 minutes but most of them are only 1.5 GB versions and im sorry guys i hate keeping to repeat myself but i only have a 1080P monitor don't you think that 1.5 GB is way enough or is it a big compared to the 3 GB version like what Imouto was saying about the complex shader, nodes high poly count scenes i mean is it really that big of a difference in flawlessness LOL Im so used to buying $100 cards and i saw a sick Adata 1.8 GB per second pcie SSD that i saw on youtube at CES this year maybe this time next year they will come down in prices LOL Im sorry im just way in over my head thanks once more in advance.

 

[TreVader]

Okay you guys you have shore done it talked me in to it I'm getting a gtx 580 3GB once my tax returns come the first think im buying is the 580 ya I see people always post GTX 580s on ebay all the time its like when im looking at stuff to buy on ebay for 20-30 minutes of looking as soon as i hit back to the ebay home buttne i see like 4-7 gtx 580s for sell so a refresh from 20-30 minutes but most of them are only 1.5 GB versions and im sorry guys i hate keeping to repeat myself but i only have a 1080P monitor don't you think that 1.5 GB is way enough or is it a big compared to the 3 GB version like what Imouto was saying about the complex shader, nodes high poly count scenes i mean is it really that big of a difference in flawlessness LOL Im so used to buying $100 cards and i saw a sick Adata 1.8 GB per second pcie SSD that i saw on youtube at CES this year maybe this time next year they will come down in prices LOL Im sorry im just way in over my head thanks once more in advance.

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[Pottuvoi]

1. Only if you use Cycles GPU accelerated renderer.

Couple of links on subject.
http://www.systemagnostic.com/faqs/
http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?239480-2-6x-Cycles-render-benchmark (nice thread with benchmark results for the scene.(check last post))

 

[Imouto]

Been a while since I used Blender on a regular basis. But in the past only certain render modes supported offloading to the GPU. And at least at that time, the ones I used were not among those.

But I am sure things have changed in the last few years.

They sure have. Now you can have GPU acceleration for everything in Cycles, latest being volumetric lighting. Any new feature comes for CPU rendering first and few months later for GPU. Cycles has also a nice and comprehensive node system.

The other free renderer, Luxrender, is getting behind by a huge margin. It was the renderer to catch a while back and now it's mimicking or trying since they don't have the manpower to keep the development at a healthy rate. At least they support AMD GPUs.

Blender is showing its head as an alternative for 3D design, the UI had a complete overhaul a while back and now they're trying to make it nicer since it's still way less user friendly than other 3D design programs.

 

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I know this was going to happen I'm really sorry TreVader I have a huge learning disability and its extremely hard for me to get something down doctors and therapist say that i can't learn how to spell and learn what you said and my hole vocabulary is not there so by the time i come up with something to ask on here and type it into google and make sure most of the spelling is right and highlight it copy and past it into here and submitting it to forum members to view it takes me anywhere from 30 minutes to almost 3 hours to do depending on how long the things that i need to ask and the overall length so i'm sorry my disability is schizophrenia kinda like thomas edison disability its like i can only focus on one and one thing at a time and for some really odd reason i'm good at computers but not at spelling and other stuff is i think it's because of my disability I know some people are some of the most smartest people in the world and for me to learn something above average like being a smarter person can any one please tell me if it's possible cuz i'm 27 years old and the past couple of weeks i've been kinda sad because i'm almost 28 and i still haven't gone to college our have very many friends but plenty of family that are all way to bussy may be i need to self teach myself how to learn better.

 

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I mean Albert Einstein cuz i get mixed up it turns out that it was his son that had it Edward Einstein i'm sorry now i feel like an idiot.