I’m wondering if I should upgrade my GTX 580 to a GTX 1060.
The render speeds as described in the 2.7x Cycles Benchmark thread are faster on the 1060, but not significantly so. I plan to do a lot of future rendering in the cloud with Brenda, so the current render speed that I have is perfectly acceptable. I’ve occasionally run up against the 3 GB limit of the 580, so extra RAM would be nice on the 1060, but on the next project I’m doing, I don’t expect to be bumping up against that limit.
I guess what I’d really like to know is, is Cycles viewport rendering significantly faster with the latest Blender release and the GTX 1060? If so, then I think I’ll upgrade. If it’s only marginally faster, then I might hold off.
Probably not… the GTX580 was a beast of a card… there are some scenes where a GTX590 (not 580) actually beats out a GTX1080 in terms of rendering speed.
Hello simplecarnival. I hace a gtx 590 and i’m gonna upgrade to a 1070. Why?
Because the 590 have just 3gb of vram so 1.5gb each for each card. It’s definitely not enough for rendering!
In the bmw benchmark a 590 is just 10% slower than a 1070, so I don’t think it will beat a 1080.
you might want to wait a bit longer until all the 10 series bugs are flushed out. i miss my 570 :(. in all seriousness, the 560 ti i bought for my old core 2 system isnt far behind my 970.
Hi, I think it depends on the scene complexity too, my old GTX 560Ti 448 cores was as fast as my GTX 760 but only for BMW benchmark.
Interesting test in Octane forum, it is also a Cuda render engine so results should be quite similar:
Thanks for the responses. I had high hopes for the 1060 from the early hype, but I guess I’ll stick with the 580 until I need more RAM or the latest lower end cards exceed the 580’s performance by a big margin.
