Help, which GPU to choose?

[Quadratschaedel]

So my gf is studying Game Design, works with Blender and recently UE5. Shes currently using a GTX960, which ist struggeling hard. I already decided on a CPU for her to Upgrade to(Ryzen 5 1600x -> 7 5800x). Now the Thing is, i Heard AMD GPUs suck for professional workloads, but NVIDIA is so pricy(in Germany) and doesnt seem to offer good gaming Performance. Which GPU would you recommend?

[PDifolco]

Budget ?

[Wh0_Am_1]

Caution on the CPU upgrade depending on the MOBO it may be incompatible. A budget is essential for such things but an RTX GPU (and tons of RAM) will do wonders, speaking as someone currently working in Blender.

[ioletsgo]

My recommendation is to go AMD, (and a CPU Upgrade isn't necessary but is recommended if you choose this path)

[Wh0_Am_1]

2 minutes ago, ioletsgo said:

My recommendation is to go AMD, (and a CPU Upgrade isn't necessary but is recommended if you choose this path)

AMD runs like garbage on Blender example RTX 2080 = RX 6900 XT Nvidia has thrown the bank at optimizing for Blender it's not even close.

[PDifolco]

2 minutes ago, Wh0_Am_1 said:

AMD runs like garbage on Blender example RTX 2080 = RX 6900 XT

Not true 

 

 

[ioletsgo]

1 minute ago, Wh0_Am_1 said:

AMD runs like garbage on Blender example RTX 2080 = RX 6900 XT

AMD's windows drivers have always been kind of meh, I hear that they've gotten a lot better in the past year. What might've necessarily been true in the past may not be true now.

To actually test the capabilities of an AMD GPU, I actually ran the Blender benchmarks on a Linux install, and these are my results.

It may not the the best but by god its better than nothing (And much cheaper than anything beyond it), if you want a budget program with graphics rendering capabilities, AMD IS an option.

[Wh0_Am_1]

16 minutes ago, PDifolco said:

Not true 

 

 

I was referencing Blender open data :

Device Name	Median Score	Number of Benchmarks
AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT	2592.71	35

 

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080

2634.84

11

 

The video was also before widespread rollout of optix it was still in beta at the time

 

This data is based off of the latest release of Blender

 

 

[ioletsgo]

When we're talking about GPUs, we have to consider the prices while discussing the benchmarks, and I've found that AMD, while not giving you the highs of performance, gives you much better bang for your buck.

[Tanaz]

I benchmarked my 6950XT in Blender just a few days ago and it was comparable to a 3060Ti. I don't know what bang for the buck @ioletsgo  is  talking about but for Blender specifically going with AMD is a big mistake IMO.

edit: Here's the screenshot, as you can see without context 2765 looks good, but when you see what's above me it starts to look a little bit different:

[MadAnt250]

4 hours ago, Quadratschaedel said:

So my gf is studying Game Design, works with Blender and recently UE5. Shes currently using a GTX960, which ist struggeling hard. I already decided on a CPU for her to Upgrade to(Ryzen 5 1600x -> 7 5800x). Now the Thing is, i Heard AMD GPUs suck for professional workloads, but NVIDIA is so pricy(in Germany) and doesnt seem to offer good gaming Performance. Which GPU would you recommend?

I don't know how the market is in your part of the world, but maybe a used GPU may be better bang for the buck.

[Paul17]

16 minutes ago, MadAnt250 said:

I don't know how the market is in your part of the world, but maybe a used GPU may be better bang for the buck.

That's what I would do.   The OP hasn't replied with any feedback despite a number of ppl trying to help.

I've researched Blender and gpus/comparisons - and I used opendata Blender website like one of the guys who posted above.   An nvidia card is more reliable for Blender - at least, right now.   I will recommend to the OP to look at the used card market for a Nvidia card - 3060 for e.g.   

Sure, if buying new - and the AMD cards are a better 'deal' in comparison, sure - but, at the moment, in Blender, the AMD cards are slower - there's some complaints about using them - in Blender - so, read up on that.   Nvidia has had a head start in Blender use - Optix is mature and is much faster than HIP.   AMD is trying to introduce HIP-RT - which utilizes ray tracing - and speeds up performance - and it looks like it might be pretty good - but, it's not ready yet.   It's still in an 'experimental' phase and is at the moment, Windows only.   There's probably some issues with stability (possibly, crashes etc.).   The latest version of Blender recently released (3.6) and hip/hip-rt progressed to a new version - so, that combination will probably take a while to stabilize - i.e. work properly?