2060 for blender

[Parsa2010]

Hi. I'm found a good deal on a RTX 2060 . And I want to use it for 3D rendering and video editing. Is it good or I should save up more and get a 3060?

[DigitalGoat]

36 minutes ago, Parsa2010 said:

Hi. I'm found a good deal on a RTX 2060 . And I want to use it for 3D rendering and video editing. Is it good or I should save up more and get a 3060?

A 2060 is perfectly fine for blender, both CUDA & Optix acceleration are built into the latest releases of blender. Both cards have the NVENC encoder for use, how useful that is to you remains to be seen.

The real questions are, is the rest of your system suitable for running a 2060 or 3060 efficiently for 3D and video or will the GPU's be constricted by other low end hardware?

Are you looking to make a living from this or is it just for a hobby?

Blender works better the more VRAM you give it to use, Video editing works better with more system RAM and a powerful CPU, both applications can benefit from a faster disk system, but how much money is worth throwing at your options and how balanced will the system be?

There are more questions needing answers than just which GPU is better. Some more details would be helpful, such as intended use, budget etc.

[Parsa2010]

53 minutes ago, DigitalGoat said:

A 2060 is perfectly fine for blender, both CUDA & Optix acceleration are built into the latest releases of blender. Both cards have the NVENC encoder for use, how useful that is to you remains to be seen.

The real questions are, is the rest of your system suitable for running a 2060 or 3060 efficiently for 3D and video or will the GPU's be constricted by other low end hardware?

Are you looking to make a living from this or is it just for a hobby?

Blender works better the more VRAM you give it to use, Video editing works better with more system RAM and a powerful CPU, both applications can benefit from a faster disk system, but how much money is worth throwing at your options and how balanced will the system be?

There are more questions needing answers than just which GPU is better. Some more details would be helpful, such as intended use, budget etc.

I have a 1500 budget. I choose a i5 12400. 32gb ram. 1tb nvme. 700w psu from cooler master. With aio (same mobo from ltts 1000 PC guide) would be a lot more have with a 2060 bc of the price

[Parsa2010]

2 minutes ago, Parsa2010 said:

I have a 1500 budget. I choose a i5 12400. 32gb ram. 1tb nvme. 700w psu from cooler master. With aio (same mobo from ltts 1000 PC guide) would be a lot more have with a 2060 bc of the price

Just found a 6600 for the same price as a 2060. How is that?

[NF-A12x25]

13 minutes ago, Parsa2010 said:

Just found a 6600 for the same price as a 2060. How is that?

6600 is much, much better than a 2060. I would go for the 6600.

[DigitalGoat]

1 hour ago, Parsa2010 said:

Just found a 6600 for the same price as a 2060. How is that?

Blender support for AMD GPUs is not as mature as for Nvidia cards. If you are expecting to use the GPU to accelerate modelling and rendering, then CUDA and Optix would be a better choice, currently.

If you are not bothered about CUDA, Optix and NVENC then the AMD card might well be the better choice.

I suggest you look at the types of applications you intend to use and see how the support for the different GPUs is implemented.

The rest of the system seems fine for your intended use.

[Parsa2010]

45 minutes ago, DigitalGoat said:

Blender support for AMD GPUs is not as mature as for Nvidia cards. If you are expecting to use the GPU to accelerate modelling and rendering, then CUDA and Optix would be a better choice, currently.

If you are not bothered about CUDA, Optix and NVENC then the AMD card might well be the better choice.

I suggest you look at the types of applications you intend to use and see how the support for the different GPUs is implemented.

The rest of the system seems fine for your intended use.

Blenders hip api supports 6600. But premiere pro does not supports it. But I can go for a 6600xt and its 100 USD more. Should I go for it?

[Parsa2010]

30 minutes ago, Parsa2010 said:

Blenders hip api supports 6600. But premiere pro does not supports it. But I can go for a 6600xt and its 100 USD more. Should I go for it?

And should I change the CPU and mobo to amd for getting some extra performance or the intel config is good enough?