HP Z800 best Nvidia settings vor Rhino&Vray&Quadro 5000? Upgrade Quadro or GTX?

[franziska]

Hi,

 

I am working in architectural visualisation, predominantly I create spherical 360 degree still images. Picture size typically 12000 x 10000 pixels.

Rarely I render movies (yet).

So far no gaming at all. Still want to test game engines for rendering in Arch Viz (not for gaming though.

 

 

Apart from that, I do work a lot with Affinity Photo on very large files with hundreds of layers.

 

To do this I use Vray 3.6 for Rhino 5.0.

Vray can now handle the combined use of CPU & GPU via Cuda.

 

Still, when doing this the images turn out grainy/noisy despite the denoiser beeing on.

CPU alone rendering works fine and gives good results, but is slow, that why I want the combined power.

 

My current graphics card Quadro 5000 never shows much usage in the Nvidia GPU utilisation graph when rendering but its memory gets fully used and I get an CUDA error 2 : unable to allocate enough memory to perform the requested operation (out-of-mem).

 

I suspect a settings error.

 

Neither Rhino or Vray are listed in the "3D Settings" field of the Nvidia control panel and I wonder if someone can recommend the best settings to choose.

At the moment I use the the 3D App-Visual Simulation Profile with:

 

-Open GL Overlay switched on

-Power management to Max

-Tripple buffering on

-Vertical sync on

 

In the following the spec of the machine.

An upgrade to a Quadro M5000 and 72GB of RAM is planned.

 

My machine has the following spec:

 

• HP Z800
  
• 2x Xeon X5650@2.67GHz
  
• 24GB RAM (soon 72GB)
  
• Quadro 5000 (soon Quadro M5000) Driver 377.83
  
• Windows 10Pro 64Bit latest release
  
• Rhino Version 5 SR14 64-bit (5.14.522.8390, 05/22/2017)
  
• Vray 3.6 for Rhino latest release
  

 

 

I'd really appreciate if someone could suggest the best settings for the current graphic card.

I am less after on screen display quality but much more after final result quality.

 

Apart from that should I get the Quadro M5000 or better a GTX for my work? Suggestions?

The Quadro M5000 has 8GB GPU RAM, the current Quadro 5000 is old and has 2.5GB.

 

Thanks so much,

 

Franzi