As one example, NVIDIA Optix unfortunately beats everything else for path tracing. Maybe AMD is fine for gaming, but if the goal is the most cost effective hardware for a Blender Flamenco render farm, for example, you’re stuck with NVIDIA for the moment. I’d love a better alternative, though.
AMD doesn’t even show up in this list until the end of the second page. The M3 benchmarks are encouraging, but the price for a Mac with a 80 core M3 Ultra is several grand vs $800 for a 5070 Ti with a similar score, so it isn’t exactly a compelling NVIDIA alternative at the moment.
VRAM is the main downside of NVIDIA, since larger scenes regularly exceed 8Gi and it may very well worth buying g a lower powered card to get more VRAM.
As one example, NVIDIA Optix unfortunately beats everything else for path tracing. Maybe AMD is fine for gaming, but if the goal is the most cost effective hardware for a Blender Flamenco render farm, for example, you’re stuck with NVIDIA for the moment. I’d love a better alternative, though.
AMD doesn’t even show up in this list until the end of the second page. The M3 benchmarks are encouraging, but the price for a Mac with a 80 core M3 Ultra is several grand vs $800 for a 5070 Ti with a similar score, so it isn’t exactly a compelling NVIDIA alternative at the moment.
VRAM is the main downside of NVIDIA, since larger scenes regularly exceed 8Gi and it may very well worth buying g a lower powered card to get more VRAM.
https://opendata.blender.org/benchmarks/query/?compute_type=OPTIX&compute_type=CUDA&compute_type=HIP&compute_type=METAL&compute_type=ONEAPI&group_by=device_name&blender_version=4.5.0