Upgrading GPU, will this increase visible object count?

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flamingspew

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I have a huge scene (6 million polys) and at a certain point LW will drop some objects to bounding boxes. The new AMD videocard gets restocked this week. Will 24 GB VRAM mean I can have ~3x the objects (current card is 8GB)?
It’s a big investment, so I want to be sure this will enable more objects.
Thanks!
 
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flamingspew

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It’s my understanding of OpenGL pipeline that the vectors and textures live on VRAM though. I have 64 GB of RAM and layout does not consume nearly that much before objects go to bounding boxes during layout work. I understand that rendering native uses CPU (hence threadripper).
 
Mastoy

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You decide at which count LW will switch to bounding box with the "Bounding box threshold" setting in the display options (shortcut d )
 
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next_n00b

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flamingspew said:
It’s my understanding of OpenGL pipeline that the vectors and textures live on VRAM though. I have 64 GB of RAM and layout does not consume nearly that much before objects go to bounding boxes during layout work. I understand that rendering native uses CPU (hence threadripper).
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The first thing is, you should specify, which LW version you are using, because <=LW2015 works like 5x faster with Quadro. I assume you are talking about Layout because you mentioned the scene file. My Quadro K6000 with 12GB can easily handle 86 millions polygons in Layout (GPU memory full 100%). I am talking about orbiting/navigating the scene and not deformations of the geometry. Those are done on CPU. 6 millions polygons is like nothing for Layout (orbiting/navigating). And first, check Mastoy advice. Set that parameter to 10kk and see how it plays.
 
Markc

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I just did a test with a World Creator landscape cloned (8.5mil polys total).
Set bounding box to 10mil, full real time zoom, rotate with an 8gb AMD GPU.
 
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flamingspew

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Ah thanks! I’m on 2020. I’ll check that bounding box threshold value. I bet that’s it. Good tip! It didn’t get sluggishness at 6m poly.

if i had to bet, geometry deformations are probably single threaded and my threadripper is useless for anything but CPU rendering.

lol now if only bullet was multi-threaded.
 
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Seems like it is multi-threaded in lw2020.
 

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I think multi-threaded bullet was introducted in 2018? I bought this machine not a long ago to speed up my LW. And what is it now working on 24/7? Mining ETH, it can mine 0.1BTC of ETH per year, electricity deducted. Poor gamers, we stole all GPUs from them.
 
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Hah, I guess the computation is just that slow... at least for point-to-point constraints. It’s so slow to me I didn’t even bother opening up my threads.

Anyone know if LW2020 supports the CUDA-enhanced version of bullet? I have an AMD card and CUDA only works on Nvidia cards. That would be worth the upgrade for sure. If you can find one...
 
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