BigIrishLug Night Hacker Terminatorgames
In regards of the GFX card. Is ram more important to DAZ than the GPU?
I am not certain. 3070 is faster but only has 8GB. The 3060 is slower but has 12GB. So either way i sacrifice something it seems.
In my opinion I would buy the 3060 just because of the 12GB and it's cheaper! I wouldn't even buy the TI models, if I'm not mistaken, they have less than 12GB and I'll explain why!
This works like this:
Imagine you have two 12GB 3060s running at the same time!
If the total scene memory (required GPU rendering memory) does not exceed 12GB, then the two work by complementing each other, rendering together!
Imagine you have a 12GB 3060 and another 8GB running at the same time and the scene needs 11GB, so only the 12GB 3060 will render while the 8GB is stopped!
Now imagine you have two 12GB 3060s and the scene needs 13GB, so neither will render and the rendering work passes to the CPU!
In order for the CPU to be able to render, you need to have a minimum of +++13,... GB of Ram on the computer, otherwise the DAZ will turn off and windows blocks!
I don't know if it's exclusive to windows 10, but in this windows, your computer can have, for example, 100GB of RAM, even if you only have 8GB! For that you can use the space of any hard disk or SSD as RAM memory additional!
Finally, let me just say that contrary to what you might think, if you use a joint rendering between a GPU and the CPU, it will take much longer than if it is done only by the GPU! This happens because of the exchange of calculations that exists between the GPU and the CPU!
The fact that you have two 8GBs GPUs running at the same time doesn't give you a total of 16GB of RAM but only the 8GB, so if you need to render a 12GB scene later on, you'll have to buy another one with 12 GB of RAM or do the render with your CPU!
Before buying the 24GB 3090 I saw a lot of reviews on youtube, especially those from GAMERNEXUS that covers everything in an engineering way! They said that 12GB would be ideal for gaming while the 24Gb would be ideal for work with 3D!
In fact, I've already rendered scenes in which the GPU used about 22 GB, without the scene being super loaded, so I tell you that More important than speed is the memory capacity!
And as you can see in my previous post, you always have the option to use the denoiser to speed up the rendering to record times, so RAM capacity is more important than speed! (THIS in 3D, not in Gamming)
