GPU Tweak for 3D Rendering

Nick Sawyer

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Hey!

I'm just posting a message out as I have no idea what I am doing.

Basically I do 3d Rendering on my computer but no games, and so I researched as hard as I could to find a graphics card. At this point everyone was saying I needed you get like an Nvidia Quatro or something like that but this was out of my price range. So I tried to find one with lots of memory and mentioning things like CUDA or OpenCL, which I think the one I purchased has.

My Card is, if this means anything to anybody?:
Nvidia Geforce GT 640 - DDR3 2GB

So now I have this card, I have some software called ASUS GPU Tweak and can amend GPU clock and voltage, and Memory Clock and fan settings. Up/Down/in the middle? I don't know.

Does anyone know what I should be doing? I don't think I want to over clock, maybe under clock? As I do not want a high FPS rate, as I want to create highly complex scenes which could take minutes to hours to render a single frame.

And advice would be appreciated.
Many Thanks.
 
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First, what software do you use? Most software for 3D rendering is mostly CPU dependant with small acceleration coming from the graphics card.

Second, that is about the worst card you can get for 3D rendering. It doesn't have a high CUDA core count, it's only DDr3 instead of DDR5, so it's going to be slow in anything it does render.

No, you don't really want to tweak anything, and even if you do overclock it, it's not going to make a difference. That card isn't up to the task.

Quadro cards range in the $1500 range, and you bought a $100 card. Do you really think they are going to be comparable?
First, what software do you use? Most software for 3D rendering is mostly CPU dependant with small acceleration coming from the graphics card.

Second, that is about the worst card you can get for 3D rendering. It doesn't have a high CUDA core count, it's only DDr3 instead of DDR5, so it's going to be slow in anything it does render.

No, you don't really want to tweak anything, and even if you do overclock it, it's not going to make a difference. That card isn't up to the task.

Quadro cards range in the $1500 range, and you bought a $100 card. Do you really think they are going to be comparable?
 
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Nick Sawyer

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Yeah I knew the card wasn't going to be the best thing around but I am still learning the software and it was all I could afford. I am using 3ds Max.

So is it not worth increasing anything then?

Many Thanks