Daz Which hardware improves rendering performance? CPU or video card?

dolgargula

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What hardware improves rendering time through DAZ3D? Would it be a faster CPU or a NVIDIA graphics card with greater capacity?

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watdapakisdis

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GPU. DAZ Studio uses Iray which needs an Nvidia card. If a scene can't fit the card's VRAM, it will fallback to CPU rendering which is slow as a molasses.
 
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linkinn

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As watdapakisdis said, but VRAM isn't everything, CUDA CORES are the important part of a GPU to improve rendering time on DAZ, the more the better, you can even get 2 GPUs to increase the number of CUDA CORES and potentially get double the performance.
 
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Guss

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Actually, both are correct and slightly wrong at the same time, you need to match your CPU with the CUDA CORES with your GPU. a faster GPU will be waiting for instructions from a slower CPU, thus slowing production down and vise versa, a fast CPU will be waiting for a slower GPU to finish it's last instructions.