By now, I have a Radeon HD 7850 1 GB and it can still handle most of titles pretty well (even paired with my 7 years old Core2Duo CPU), but I also use my PC for rendering stuff (most of it archtetonic rendering), and for that I use Blender 3D (cycles rendering engine). It works in most of the cases, but I still have some problems, specially when i try to render more detailed scenes, and there are some features that still are not suported by opencl cycles. I am going to buy a whole new computer next year (probably between January and February), and I have already decided to go for amd ryzen (waiting for the prices to decide between 4c8t, 6c12t or 8c16t), and by now I want to decide on going for gtx 1070, rx 480 8gb crossfire, or maybe wait for Vega. I also use my computer for gaming, and I have a project for the pc so that extra heating will not be a problem for the cross fire setup since the cards won't be side by side. I wanna know what's your opinion on:
1. I do know that for gaming, since there are titles which doesn't support CF setups, it is going to be under the performance of the GTX 1070, but since i don't have a 1440p/4k 140hz gaming monitor, I think that just for full hd gaming the RX can make it just fine, but what I wanna know is what it is the rx 480 crossfire performance when it comes to rendering (cycles and other rendering engines if you know some)?
2. If is the 1070 faster (rendering), is it a lot faster or just a little bit?
3. By knowing the vega gpu is suposed to have 8gb HBM2 (maybe 16? there are many rumours) and about 12,5 TFlops, when it comes to rendering, how could this reflect render time?
4. What about DirectX 12 and Vulkan? the gtx series 10xx is known to don't be 100% compatible to assynchronous shaders, should I consider this since I have no intetion to change my GPU on the next ~4 years?
5. What about OpenCL support on cycles devlopment roadmap, is it expected to have full, or almost full support on next year? (this one is very specific to veteran blender users, I couldn't find anything conclusive about this)
There is no need to answer each one of these 'questions', I just want to know what you guys think about it.
Thanks for your time, best regards.
P.S.: I am new in the forum, and as you can see by how I do write, english is not my official language (I am from Brazil), so sorry if this thread is in incorrect section, or if is there something that hurt your eyes when you read it, I have no intetion to make you cry tears of blood.
Thanks.
1. I do know that for gaming, since there are titles which doesn't support CF setups, it is going to be under the performance of the GTX 1070, but since i don't have a 1440p/4k 140hz gaming monitor, I think that just for full hd gaming the RX can make it just fine, but what I wanna know is what it is the rx 480 crossfire performance when it comes to rendering (cycles and other rendering engines if you know some)?
2. If is the 1070 faster (rendering), is it a lot faster or just a little bit?
3. By knowing the vega gpu is suposed to have 8gb HBM2 (maybe 16? there are many rumours) and about 12,5 TFlops, when it comes to rendering, how could this reflect render time?
4. What about DirectX 12 and Vulkan? the gtx series 10xx is known to don't be 100% compatible to assynchronous shaders, should I consider this since I have no intetion to change my GPU on the next ~4 years?
5. What about OpenCL support on cycles devlopment roadmap, is it expected to have full, or almost full support on next year? (this one is very specific to veteran blender users, I couldn't find anything conclusive about this)
There is no need to answer each one of these 'questions', I just want to know what you guys think about it.
Thanks for your time, best regards.
P.S.: I am new in the forum, and as you can see by how I do write, english is not my official language (I am from Brazil), so sorry if this thread is in incorrect section, or if is there something that hurt your eyes when you read it, I have no intetion to make you cry tears of blood.
Thanks.
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