Please help me decide on an affordable GPU for blender!
Posted by shesinpart1es@reddit | buildapc | View on Reddit | 12 comments
my budget is around maybe 350, but I am willing to push it if I can do pay and 4 and there would be a drastic difference. I want to buy a used GPU so that I can model in blender. I currently have a NVIDA GeForce 1660 which isn’t working very well at all, I don’t fully understand it but when I did the Furmark 8Gb test, it started to lag a lot. I was thinking maybe the NVIDIA GeForce 3070?
VoraciousGorak@reddit
Your GPU only has 6GB VRAM, so the 8GB test will overfill it.
RTX 3070 or 3080 might be good choices.
shesinpart1es@reddit (OP)
is that why my blender program cannot do simple things or could it be anything else, like my CPU or something? I want to make sure because I know nothing about computers and I don’t want to waste $ on a GPU if that isn’t even the problem. If it is my GPU, then how much Gb do I need?
VoraciousGorak@reddit
That's only one part of the puzzle.
You also want to make sure your power supply can handle the new GPU. What model power supply do you have?
The 3070 is usually pretty safe to work with even midrange power supplies, while a 3080 10GB or 12GB will require a higher-end power supply.
shesinpart1es@reddit (OP)
I have 16gb ram. I don’t know what power supply means or how to check?
VoraciousGorak@reddit
https://www.google.com/search?q=computer+power+supply
They're generally black or gray boxes that change wall power into power that won't destroy the inside of your PC.
To figure out which one you have, if you don't know, you can open the PC and look at the label on the power supply, it'll have a model number and a wattage.
shesinpart1es@reddit (OP)
It literally just goes into the wall me thinks?wall
VoraciousGorak@reddit
Yes, the part of your computer (inside the computer itself) that the other end of the wall cord goes into is the power supply.
shesinpart1es@reddit (OP)
600W. unfortunately the computer can actually only support a NVIDIA RTX 2700:(
VoraciousGorak@reddit
Model number matters, not all 600W power supplies are created equal. I ran an RTX 4070 Super and a 12900K off a 450W Seasonic Focus Gold, but I wouldn't run an RTX 2060 off a 600W Thermaltake TR2 for example. The internal build quality and circuit layout varies dramatically between models.
shesinpart1es@reddit (OP)
I am gonna guess 550-650 based on what I looked up for now
pwnilol300@reddit
If you get a good deal you might be able to get a used rtx 3080 10gb for ~300€ or an rtx 3080 12gb for ~350€ its probably the best you could get
shesinpart1es@reddit (OP)
does getting 10gb vs 12 matter a lot?