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I have a 1050 video card and they take me around 5 mins. Turn on your denoising and you will notice a huge speed increase with the same quality.I really need to save up for a better graphics card. These renders take forever lol
I rendered the following to images using a GTX1050TI with only 4GB of VRAM (not the best card for this). One of these images took me 45mins using standard settings, no denoising. The other image only took me 5 mins using denoising. There's is ABSOLUTELY a HUGE difference! You cannot tell the difference between the two at all, yet the denoised version was MUCH MUCH faster without any quality loss. This is especially important on a low end video card like mine as you cannot denoise at all when you run out of VRAM and that makes renders MUCH MUCH slower without denoising on low end cards (or any card for that matter)...56 second render! Genesis 8.1 Elly
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It took longer to clothe and pose than to render. It also took longer to load all the textures in VRAM than to render.
Please do not say denoising gives you the same quality as a full render, that simply is not true. It may be acceptable quality for posting on F95 or for relatively low resolution images but denoising is a destructive process and removes information from an image.
Fotsirk, save your pennies and when you can afford it get a better video card, it will make a world of difference. There are a lot of tricks you can learn to speed up render times without resorting to cutting off renders with a lot of noise thinking you can save it with a denoiser.
I may be old and half blind, but I'm not seeing a difference.I rendered the following to images using a GTX1050TI with only 4GB of VRAM (not the best card for this). One of these images took me 45mins using standard settings, no denoising. The other image only took me 5 mins using denoising. There's is ABSOLUTELY a HUGE difference! You cannot tell the difference between the two at all, yet the denoised version was MUCH MUCH faster without any quality loss. This is especially important on a low end video card like mine as you cannot denoise at all when you run out of VRAM and that makes renders MUCH MUCH slower without denoising on low end cards (or any card for that matter)...
Now which of these images was 5min and denoised, and which one took 45 mins? Look close, you may be surprised at the answer...
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Picture A was rendered in 5mins and denoised. You can tell when you zoom in that image A has lost some quality compared to Picture B (it's blurrier and has lost some details). Without zooming in, however, you are correct in that they are almost identical and certainly acceptable for posting here.I rendered the following to images using a GTX1050TI with only 4GB of VRAM (not the best card for this). One of these images took me 45mins using standard settings, no denoising. The other image only took me 5 mins using denoising. There's is ABSOLUTELY a HUGE difference! You cannot tell the difference between the two at all, yet the denoised version was MUCH MUCH faster without any quality loss. This is especially important on a low end video card like mine as you cannot denoise at all when you run out of VRAM and that makes renders MUCH MUCH slower without denoising on low end cards (or any card for that matter)...
Now which of these images was 5min and denoised, and which one took 45 mins? Look close, you may be surprised at the answer...
A:
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B:
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Honestly I have better things to do than pixel peep your images. I even said that low resolution images and forum posted images are acceptable with denoiser, but rerender these at 4K/6K/8K and cut off at 5 minutes then denoise. Or add more than a single character and single HDRI background and do the same test. That would really show you what a denoiser can and can't do. Also I would never advise someone not to spend their money on a better GPU if that is what they want to do. I didn't ask you to dump your GTX1050Ti, nor would I ever. My biggest objection to your post is not your artwork (which I like, by the way) it is your insistence on saying "without any quality loss."
Heck when I started with DAZ I only had an AMD RX570 so you could image that nearly every render was an overnight job, especially since it was CPU only. Every render was 1280P at the most. It wasn't until I had a 1080Ti that I started doing HD renders, and then it wasn't until a second 1080Ti, did I do any 4K renders.
I am also not saying everyone should go run out and buy a RTX3090/3080/3070, because that is ridiculous if you aren't making any money to recoup your investment, or you have some discretionary income, but I don't discourage others from buying one either.
In the end I am not trying to pick a fight with you, like I said, I like you images and I am still learning DAZ, so a lot of my renders might be faster but that doesn't mean mine are any good.