When I go to render, Blender estimates that it will take over 40 HOURS to render the image. 40 hours! Letting the render run for 15 minutes, the estimates seemed accurate… Is this normal?? Could anyone test this on their rig to see what you get?
Please tell me if I’m doing anything wrong. I’m coming from a Solidworks background, where it only takes around 5-10 mins to render most models.
Not sure I can agree to that. As the “M” indicates, this is a mobile card for notebook use. Which means it is optimized for low power consumption and heat.
You can’t compare mobile cards to their desktop counterparts: They are not even remotely as powerful. And if you have a capable CPU in that machine (Notebook? Some iMac, perhaps?) it is quite possible that it will outperform your 970M.
Sorry, let me reiterate: pretty powerful for a mobile gpu, even though the gaps between mobile and desktop gpus are closing fast.
I can play the new DOOM, which is a really graphics intensive game, at as constant 50-60 fps on ultra settings.
I have an i7-6700HQ (8 thereads). I tested it for renders and it is indeed slower than rendering with the graphics card.
Isn’t that exactly my point?
My 4 year old desktop card is still faster than your bleeding edge notebook card. So much for gaps closing fast…
And now imagine what a current desktop GTX 970 can do.
Haha, true. But since the past couple years the gaps have been closing pretty fast. For example, the 970 is about around 50-60% faster than the 970m, but the 970m is almost faster than the desktop 960. Not bad for a laptop card imo.
