Good to know! By adding the 2080, I've achieved almost a 3-fold improvement in my GPU-only rendering, and I can now keep my CPU out of it and use it for like, surfing the web or something :) less Good to know! By adding the 2080, I've more … RTX 2080 Ti GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 32 GB RAM Ryzen 7 1800X 8 core, 3600 Mhz Starting from Iray preview, rendering to 400x520 px as recommended 2080 GPU only: 50.6 + 1080 GPUs only: 36.10 sec Both GPU + CPU: 37.73 sec I guess I've got to the point where my GPUs are so grunty that the CPU is more of a hindrance than a help. And then, of course, if you were using Daz Studio on an Mac, getting access to NVIDIA GPU acceleration was not even possible.RTX 2080 Ti GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 32 GB RAM Ryzen 7 1800X 8 core, 3600 Mhz Starting from Iray preview, rendering to 400x520 px as recommended 2080 GPU only: 50.6 + 1080 GPUs only: 36.10 sec Both GPU + CPU: 37.73 sec I guess I've got to the point where my GPUs are so grunty that the CPU is more of a hindrance than a help. So if you really wanted to grow as an Daz artist and start to realize the projects filling your imagination, you're suddenly faced with the real prospect of needing to upgrade to a bigger (and more expensive) graphics card now.

The more GPU horsepower demanded by your project puts a strain on your local rig resources and results in consequences such as renders taking much longer, the machine gets heated, or you ending up cutting down your scene complexity just so you can render it in a reasonable time on your local rig. (Daz Studio and Iray need to load your entire scene into GPU memory(VRAM) before beginning to process it.

the more GPU horsepower is needed to pull all that together in the number of iterations you've specified to create your visual masterpiece.

increasing use of shaders, textures, lighting, instances, geometry's etc. The Iray Server software in turn uses the processor (GPU) on your local graphics card to realize that render. When you render with Daz Studio* today, it uses NVIDIA's Iray Server software to process and display your final visual.

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