Hello guys, in the past it seems Nvidia have been the go-to cards to get for workstations. I wonder if this is still true these days?
I am looking at getting something performing similar to a 1070, but I wonder how essential Nvidia is for this?
I am not doing GPU-rendering that much. I mostly work in game engines, and the occasional CPU-render in Blender.
To clarify, the computer will mainly be a workstation, sometimes games. So I need good performance in Blender, video-editing software, Krita/Gimp, 3D Coat, Substance Painter and game engines.
I am asking mainly because of concerns with Nvidia drivers lately (Had so many issues with them in the past), and AMD seem to be on a stable roll.
Whilst I am asking about GPUs I might as well ask about AMD CPUs compared to Intel, if you have any insight on that I would like to know
Intel CPUs are currently still much faster than AMD. I have always loved Nvidia video cards and don’t have any issues. Make sure you get the i7 6700K which is a little better than the 6700, as it allows overclocking, etc.
If you dont plan on overclocking just get the normal 6700 not the k. overclocking is not for everyone
as for gpu… right now the cuda implementation of cycles is far more complete then the opencl version, this may change over the next year but its better to buy for now rather then to buy for the future. this means get a NVIDIA card over a AMD card. (CUDA is nvidia only)
Hey, nice rig, may you think about to add a SSD for system and main software.
They speed up the whole system so nicely, startup system/applications, copy files, system maintenance and so forth.
256 GB should be fine for a Windows system and not to expensive today.
With the ram make sure to buy the exact same kit you got to begin with when you upgrade. You may encounter issues, sometimes RAM can be a bit screwy with matching two kits etc etc.
