BryanBrown380

Does this also work for 3D molding polylines? and thanks for the quick reply.

Hello fellow chiefers, I'm using molding polylines and was wondering if its possible to turn up the segments to create a smoother arc? Because the radius is much larger on the arc to the right the segments are much more noticeable which is kinda ugly.

Thanks for the help!

3 minutes ago, limitless8 said:

I completely agree, but I don't see any point in going with a ryzen 6 core, or new intel 6 core, my 5930k 6 core 12 thread at OC of 4.4 does the job very well, and I don't think a new powerful card would not match cpu, unless somebody can explain otherwise

Oh no you're fine that is still a beast.

1 minute ago, TheKitchenAbode said:

It's important to keep in mind that the graphics card is only part of the equation. The CPU is also involved in PBR'ing. What's important is to ensure that the CPU and GPU are appropriately matched. No point in having the fastest GPU on the market if the CPU can't keep up with it. That GPU will just be sitting idle while it waits for the CPU to send it the next instruction set.

Good point, its crazy how you can now get 12 thread processors for $150. Who would have thought 2 years ago.

4 minutes ago, MarkMc said:

I'd asked at the Academy in August if they knew if Chief would or could be optimized for the new RT aspect of the cards. At that time they had just gotten back from the launch and had no information. I intend to wait to hear. Talk on gaming forums is often either "wait and see" or "not worth it but will bring 10 series prices down". Now gaming is not Chief so there are challenges in distinguishing value there. I'm also keeping an eye on the AMD 7nm cards. I'd been hoping to get a new machine in 2019 but for the moment don't see it worth the cost.

FWIW I think your Strix has 4GB Vram, yes? I manage to behave pretty badly with my 980m which has fewer cores but 8GB-might be worth keeping in mind?

7nm AMD cards looking really good if the rumors are true!

So I opened up the Grandview sample plan and found a possibility. For a benchmark we need something repeatable so I think walkthrough paths would work great since you can render them in PBR. The only problem is it does not have a timer for completion like the raytracing window does. Wonder if that would be something easy to implement?

3 minutes ago, limitless8 said:

So I watched the video, I love his accent, gives the video flare )  Overall still the conclusion comes down to the fact that a 2080 will faster than 1080ti in many aspects, and considering where I am both are at about the same price now, I think a 2080 will be my best bet, and I'm sure coming from a 980 strix, I will be blown away.

I agree with you, Its just not double+ performance they would like you to think.

Well this is going to get technical. I do know that PBR is openGL. That Star Wars benchmark from Nvidia is pretty misleading. The reason the new RTX handled it much better was because they coded it to use the new tensor cores in those gpus. Those cores are not in previous generation cards and it is up to the developers to make their software utilize them. However in FP32 shader performance the 2080ti is about 25% faster than the 1080ti. If you want more information about check out this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_x1JGG4JC8

Its pretty sneaky stuff they pulled to make it look really good.

46 minutes ago, TheKitchenAbode said:

Concerning PBR I doubt if it would be worth the expense. I'm running with a 1060 and it only takes about 3 seconds to run a fairly complex scene. Not worth spending $1,000 or more to gain maybe 1 second of PBR time.

 

Also, it's my understanding that SLI may improve gamming performance but generating static images is a different process and SLI may not provide much improvement.

I would have to agree SLI is probably not the best bet. Most games don't even support it or scale well enough for it to be worth. But it would be nice to see the comparison between cards in chief besides just gaming benchmarks that the internet is full of.

Maybe the community could get together and come up with a benchmark database and do testing from a sample plan so any one could download and test really easy.

I will look into it.

I too would like to understand how the pbr engine works with different hardware. For example if we could get some official benchmarks, just an idea. It just would be nice so we could make more educated hardware purchases for our use cases.