Which budget GPU for max 2014? GTX650Ti?

[zhopudey]

Hi,

 

I'm running max2014/vray/cs6 on an i5 3550, 8gb ram and onboard graphics. Viewport performance becomes sluggish for heavy scenes, specially when I import cad drawings.

Will a gtx650 TI be considerably better than my onboard graphics? I can't afford 660 or 760 at the moment.

[PETERBIRD]

Hi Rohan,

 

for the budget, GTX650Ti, is a nice card for "playing" with Max and CS6 bundle.

Get one with at least 2GB of memory!

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I have the NVIDIA K6000 with 12mb. Even that becomes sluggish when brining in CAD files. I don't think autodesk has solved their viewport performance issues in my opinion when dealing with larger CAD files. I have worked on every file size imaginable from a single residential house to towers and airports. Viewport performance with this K6000 is unreal until anything to remotely do with CAD is introduced into 3DS Max 2014.

 

My solution and its not ideal, but definitely speeds up performance, is to import the CAD, put it all on one layer and then group it as one. Makes the scenes at least manageable from there.

[zhopudey]

Thanks for the replies. I'll look into 650TI 2gb.

[paneli]

I have the NVIDIA K6000 with 12mb. Even that becomes sluggish when brining in CAD files. I don't think autodesk has solved their viewport performance issues in my opinion when dealing with larger CAD files. I have worked on every file size imaginable from a single residential house to towers and airports. Viewport performance with this K6000 is unreal until anything to remotely do with CAD is introduced into 3DS Max 2014.

 

My solution and its not ideal, but definitely speeds up performance, is to import the CAD, put it all on one layer and then group it as one. Makes the scenes at least manageable from there.

 

 

That's why I dropped from Quadro and moved to GTX.

Best decision I made so far regarding to hardware.

 

Thanks for the replies. I'll look into 650TI 2gb.

 

 

 

Or look into the fresh GTX 750 TI. It is based on Nvidia's new Maxwell architecture and rumored to outperform GTX 760.

[RyderSK]

Or look into the fresh GTX 750 TI. It is based on Nvidia's new Maxwell architecture and rumored to outperform GTX 760.

 

That's pretty good suggestion, although it's not that cheap at around 200dollars level. And it's absolutely not going to outperform 760 considering it's positioned between 660 and 660Ti depending how how factory overclocked the 6xx competitors are. Still, new architecture is good thing usually.

 

Here is a graph with current gens, you can see where it will end up (it will be around 10perc. slower than 760, not faster, considering 760 is around 10+ perc. faster than 660ti, and 750ti is clocked lower.)

 

 

 

I have the NVIDIA K6000 with 12mb. (12GB you mean).

 

I'am very jealous of this to be honest. Have you though of switching to iRay/Octane since you have such high vram on card ?

Edited February 1, 2014 by RyderSK

[paneli]

You are probably right.

I never actually bothered rechecking post-release benchmarks/reviews of the GTX 750. I only remembered the pre-release rumors.

 

Anyway,

From time to time I feel sorry for getting an GTX 780 and not waiting one more month to the 780ti..

[PETERBIRD]

For the same budget, the 750Ti is even better (more and more) with the new tech Maxwell, a previous introdution for future GTX8.., like Juraj Talcik announced.

[RyderSK]

From time to time I feel sorry for getting an GTX 780 and not waiting one more month to the 780ti..

 

Why if I can ask ? There is big price difference between 780 and 780Ti. Do you need such performance boost for 4K Gaming :- ) ? Because there is no benefit for any 3D related work otherwise and neither card is useful for gpu rendering either with the meager 3GB Vram. 780Ti seems like a crazy waste of money for non-enthusiast gamers.

 

 

For the same budget, the 750Ti is even better (more and more) with the new tech Maxwell, a previous introdution for future GTX8.., like Juraj Talcik announced.

 

Well this isn't technically correct. 650Ti can be bought from 120 dollars (which might further SLIGHTLY drop) while 750Ti will retail around 199Dollars mark.

 

Btw it's not fully released yet, you can't buy that card right now. But it might be worth waiting, but it's not THAT budget like card, it's pretty close to middle class.

Edited February 2, 2014 by RyderSK

[zhopudey]

Considering a 650Ti won't be of much use for RT/IRay etc, are there any amd gpus I can consider around the same budget? Will amd perform better in the viewport under nitrous (or DirectX)?

[Dimitris Tolios]

Do you have a decent PSU ?

I don't know how good the used market is where your at, but if you can afford a new 650ti, chances are that you might find a 580 around this price point...it is a hell hotter and more powerhungry, but it is a powerful card.

For gaming, a 660 almost identical (or better) for "half the watts", but for viewport and compute, the 580 holds its own with the best in non-GK110 cards (i.e. 780s/Titans etc).

 

Your PSU needs to have a 6pin (75W) + a 8pin PCIe (150W) connectors. Added to the 75W the PCIe 16x delivers, makes it safe for the 580 to count on pulling 250+ W under full load (which you will see only if you are GPU rendering/folding/mining and other GPGPU intensive tasks, pulls less for gaming, far less for viewport). A 5xx + Watt PSU is recommended.

Edited February 3, 2014 by dtolios

[zhopudey]

I have a tx550m at present. I'll search in my local seconds market for a 580.