Thanks!

Yes, you will ABSOLUTELY need an nVidia card, and the more memory the better (some folks just won't tell you the bottom line, but it's true).

I have both the 1080 and the Titan (with 12GB) and I still feel at times I don't have enough GPU.  It's like being too rich or too thin -- you can't.

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Mike "ex-genius" Kelley

Is "MSI GeForce GTX 1080 Ti GAMING X 11GB 352-bit GDDR5X Video Graphics Card GTX 1080 Ti GAMING X 11G" the same/good?

It's hard to go wrong with an MSI with those specs.

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Mike "ex-genius" Kelley

Yup! 1080Ti should do ya fine. 11gb will do nicely. You shouldn’t run into limitations, plus whenever the next versions of iclone comes out, you’ll be better prepared. As Ani/KT mentioned before, running 8gb you could end up seeing limitations. Especially if you have GI and a bunch of particle FX.

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Hard to get a hold of an 11Gb...so, I am going with the NVIDIA - GeForce GTX 1070 Founders Edition 8GB GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 Graphics Card

The 1070 works very well -- I actually think it's a better buy than a 1080 (I have a 1070 on one of my machines and it runs nearly as well as my 1080 -- in point of fact, that 1080 isn't even in a machine right now.  I had thought about selling it but if/when iClone ever supports multiple GPUs it might come in handy.  Or it might be hopelessly outdated by then :>.

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Mike "ex-genius" Kelley

Hmmm, there should be plenty available on Newegg? For me I did run into issues on a heavy GI scene with multiple particles with a 1070. The 1080 ti was able to handle it no probs.But... that 1070ti was on a laptop. The desktop 1070 has a better performance than the laptop 1070 for sure. So not exactly an apples to apples. If it were me I’d spend the little extra for the additional 3gb of Ram, but that’s based on comparing a laptop 8gb card to a desktop 11gb card. So again, not quite apples to apples.

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