A new entry-level graphics card based on the Nvidia Pascal GPU is coming ...

according to the specs it only has 2 gig of ram but the ti has 4gig.  I personally (and I am looking at this new gen) would not get a card unless it had more then 4 gig, but then I do have a 970 so I am not having much issue at the moment other then more ram would be cool so if i were to upgrade it would be a 1070 unless they make a 1060ti by the time I decide to take the padlock off my wallet.  

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I have found there is very little difference between the 900 and the 1000 series as far as iClone is concerned except for the increased memory. As allows the second number counts and you don't want anything below "6". So the 970 will give better performance than a 1050. Unfortunately, most benchmarks are for games, which is really of marginal interest for iClone.

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If your building a new low-cost computer, or upgrading from on-CPU (built in) graphics, this could be a good choice. Otherwise "no". These cards have half the power of my "ancient" GTX 770.

If you want a lot of VRAM for cheap, the AMD RX480 8 Gig is a good bet. The GTX 1060 is also a good low cost bet, and has 6 Gig of VRAM.

Currently iClone does not use CUDA, so AMD cards will not degrade the PhysX performance at all. It is actually fairly common for game engines to not take advantage of CUDA, and just run PhysX on the CPU. I don't know if anything will change regarding CUDA for iC7.

OH yeah i was just putting in my two cents from the perspective of owning a 970.    I like the 1070 and 1080 because of the ram so basically I guess I am looking for cards with 8 gig or more LOL.   In reality though my 970 is working quite well with iclone and have not had any issues with sets.  It runs well and does what I want it to do so I probably will end up skipping this generation of cards unless I notice a performance issue I can't live with (which has not happened as of yet).




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That would actually be a useful idea. I seem to remember we tried something like that a couple of months ago as a private initiative.

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I was immediately thinking of the Cinebench based on Cinema 4D. Should be no big deal for RL to put together something similar.