I need your help for choose a graphic card

Started by maobros, July 23, 2020, 11:15:42 AM

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phos4

Ha, sorry, meant to write, but does it FIT your case (will edit)... I am sure (or very positive) that KS will benefit from it.

mafrieger

Besides pure speed for ray-tracing, Nvidia's Ampere brings two new possibilities which may be interesting for rendering:
1. hardware acceleration for motion blur
2. RTX i/o

with this 2., one could stream data very fast from SSD to GPU Memory also in gamer-cards
see https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/rtx-io-gpu-accelerated-storage-technology/

(this will be build into Windows in 2021, see https://devblogs.microsoft.com/directx/directstorage-is-coming-to-pc/).

For Pro cards (Quadro) this was already available in 2019, called GPUDirect Storage see https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/gpudirect-storage/

If this could be used by Keyshot one day,
two (or three) things should become possible:
- reduce start-up times for GPU-Rendering
- store needed data in a compressed way on SSD, to save space and also stream it faster to GPU's VRAM where it is decompressed and used
- maybe solve also some limitation introduced by VRAM-size with streaming data "at the moment of need"