best card for arch render and video editing within range

[ronirubi]

hello guys

 

this is my first post in this club. i need your suggestion. to render smooth from lumion and artlantis i repeatedly getting crashed and getting restart with a bad blue screen. my card is radeon HD7790 sapphire. i am told that this is a gaming card and not perfect for rendering or editing. he suggested quadro 600k 1gb. another friend recommended quadro 4800 1.5gb. both are very close in price and affordable. my deadline is knocking. or should i invest in quadro k4000 3gb, which is about 4 times more expensive than the last 2 models. my friend guided me to sli 2 quadro 4800 and assured best performance. bit confused.

 

pls guide me from your knowledge and experience.

 

thanks.

[RyderSK]

Well first of all, never listen to your friend anymore. In fact, find new friends ;- )

 

I had Sapphire 7750 (and this one was passive, really nice) a 7770, and imho they were damn good cards in their time and are still decent today.

In 3D, they are just fine for viewport acceleration, both in 3dsMax and Cad. It's not much worth in gp-gpu accelerated apps like gpu renderers or any gpu accelerared video editors.

 

Lumion is pure directX based app, so none of the professional range of cards (nVidia Quadro and Ati FirePro) are viable choice here, oppositelly.

Any middle range gaming card is more than fine. Up to here, whether it's AMD or nVidia doesn't matter much.

 

I am not aware Artlantis is GPU accelerated yet at all, but other GPU rendering solutions are almost purely CUDA based (or OpenCl compilated from CUDA directly) and nVidia based. Professional Quadro range, again, doesn't apply here.

 

Blue screens surely isn't product of insufficient graphic card. Could be anything from driver to hardware problem.

 

Video editers largely benefit from pretty much anything, on professional level, where advanced gamut range, bitrate and color precision is necessary, Quadro and FirePro are great deal, but on pure performance benefit, any middle range gaming graphic card applies (both nVidia and AMD)

 

TLDR: Buy GTX760 with 4GB and be happy in everything you do. Good viewport manipulation, option of GPU rendering in CUDA (VrayRT, Octane, Arion,etc...), decent amount of memory for any app, video editors acceleration (from Photoshop to AfterEffects), Lumion and computer games will run flawlessly in high settings. And best of all, it's cheap. Win-Win

[Dimitris Tolios]

Keep your friend...just don't trust him about PCs, or at least as far as rendering applications go.

 

GPUs only in very specific programs and only very lately have anything to do with the rendering process itself.

Graphic cards were used for DISPLAYING graphics only. Nothing more, and that is still the case for most applications.

 

Jiraj gave you a detailed explanation around that.

His GTX 760 suggestion is good. Just make sure that you have a decent power supply to feed this, or any other powerful GTX/Radeon, that can easily be the more power hungry component in a system when working hard.