I need to buy a new graphics card to use with TouchDesigner.
I will mainly work with particle effects, Kinect, and StreamDiffusion/Stable Diffusion. ChatGPT recommends prioritizing more VRAM, even at the cost of choosing a slightly older or less powerful model.
So, between the RTX 3060 (12GB) and the RTX 4060 (8GB), it suggests the 3060 despite the benchmarks… What do you think?
This is a difficult question to answer in a general sense and not one I’d farm out to ChatGPT, as it’s highly dependent on the specific workload. I personally would always prefer the newer SM generation. Ada in particular was a big leap. But if you need to run models that require 12GB, then that’s a hard limit. Particle stuff/physics sims are going to benefit from the faster card unless, again, you are doing something that would exhaust VRAM.
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For TouchDesigner use, get the more powerful GPU (4060). If you have to run multiple GPU memory hungry apps at the same time, harder decision but honestly if you are trying to always hit 60fps in TouchDesigner you’ll want as few other things running as possible so you can do more in TouchDesigner.
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So I’ll go with a more powerful one that’s still relatively cheap, like the 4060 Ti (16GB). But the benchmarks are killing it, and I don’t know why. Do you think it’s still a good choice for my purpose? See the screens… the 3080 is older and has less RAM!
There’s aren’t really 1:1, as you’ll note the 3080 has 2x the number of shader cores which is a substantial difference even with a faster architecture. TDP tells the story here.
@chemicalfox Is there no option to go to a 4070 or 4070ti so its a closer match and more RAM?
In the end, I bought a 4070 :))
The performance difference compared to the rtx5070 wasn’t worth the price difference.
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Hey Im joining the discussion.
I have a Desktop PC with RTX 2070. (8GB VRam). and A laptop with RTX 3060 (32 GB Ram).
I need to use one of them for an installation for 1 week..
I’ve heard that Desktop PCs might be more stable, because of thermal throttling and heating and stuff.
And that basically the 2070 is pretty much equivelant to the 3060.
But the Vram is a hugh factor I guess?
I need to run a network with lots of 3D models, SOPS, and materials and such..
Which PC would be better to use in my case?
(The SOPS are static, If ill animate them it will only be on the GPU, (in the GEO Comp).. But anyways The desktop PC is Ryzen 5 3600, and the Laptop PC is intel i9).
Thanks
I would never run a multi-day installation off a laptop unless you had no other options. The RTX 2070 compares pretty favorably to the mobile RTX 3060. The 2070 has more VRAM so I’m confused about your question.
Perhaps you’re confused thinking the RTX 3060 has 32GB of graphics ram? That is not the case, the mobile 3060s were usually paired with around 6GB of graphic ram (not sure of your model) but the 32GB RAM is system ram.
In the i9 vs Ryzen 5, a) Intel had years of i9s, so you need to look into the specs of the CPU exactly, just “i9” doesn’t mean much b) laptops are limited thermally so the i9 won’t be cranked up on power, the 5600 might compare favorably.
I’d look at it this way - Are you hitting your desired frame rates with teh desktop? If no, how much better does the laptop make it? If yes, use the desktop for sure.
Thanks! Yes i was confused, it has only 6GB of VRAM..
I’ll put everything to the test and see, I had one TD crash on my desktop (probably because other softwares were open as well), and i started fearing the desktop couldnt handle it..
Thanks for now! I’ll put everything to the test.