#Octane render software drivers#
#Octane render software manual#
#Octane render software license#

Since Out-Of-Core memory is shared between GPUs, you can not turn devices on or off while using Out-Of-Core features. To alleviate the cardвЂ™s texture count limitation, you can also set OctaneRender to use the host memory (RAM) through its Out-Of-Core settings, allowing you to use more textures and geometry than would fit in the graphic memory of the video card (VRAM). If you place an emphasis on having large texture maps and very complex scenes, itвЂ™s safer to use a card with a large amount of VRAM and ensure that VRAM size is consistent throughout all the GPUs you intend to use for rendering. Texture size depends on your project, and overly large textures may not be necessary when smaller texture maps already do the trick. There are a few tricks you can use to save a bit of memory usage. Unfortunately it is not same for the VRAM - memory is not compounded in the same manner in GPU rendering.ДЄll the textures and HDRI among other stuff used for an entire scene has to fit into a functional swap space вЂ“ that is each GPU must have a copy of all scene elements it needs to process - and therefore this swap space will be limited to the size of that card with the least amount of VRAM present in your machine or in the network where all GPUs used for GPU rendering resides.Д®.g., If you combine a 6 GB Titan Black with a 4 GB 980 for rendering, the rendering speed increases, but the memory size available for the rendering is effectively 4 GB. Putting two cards (or multiple cards) together adds up the cores, resulting in a linear speedup. Slaves are included in the standalone download(s), so make sure you get the right slave for your plugin version. This means some care needs to be taken, especially when using slaves from plugins, to use the slave that is of the same OctaneRender core version. Do I need to match slave versions to standalone or plugin versions? Yes, slaves are required to be exactly the same OctaneRender core version as plugin or standalone that is using them.Can I run OctaneRender on a machine without a local GPU and just connect to slaves? No, OctaneRender requires at least one local GPU because of its real-time interactivity.

#Octane render software license#

How many networked slaves/GPUs can I connect to for rendering? Depending on your license tier, the maximum number of GPUs is 40.

(Please note that Slave licenses are only supported by OctaneRender 2019.1.1 and higher)

What license(s) do I need on the slave machines? A standalone or Slave license is required for each slave.

#Octane render software manual#

More information about network rendering can be found in the Standalone Manual here. Octane has the ability to scan the LAN (or subnet) for slaves and use their GPUвЂ™s. which comes with an OctaneRender slave that can run on computers with GPUs on your LAN. Network Rendering was first introduced with OctaneRender 2. Texture count limitations Compute CapabilityД¦4 LDR (8 bit) RGBA, 32 LDR (8 bit) greyscale, 4 HDR (16 bit) RGBA and 4 HDR (16 bit) greyscaleДЎ44 LDR (8 bit) RGBA, 68 LDR (8 bit) greyscale, 10 HDR (16 bit) RGBA and 10 HDR (16 bit) greyscale If thereвЂ™s not enough VRAM, then you can enable OctaneRenderвЂ™s Out-Of-Core features.ДЄs OctaneRender does not use the CPU for rendering, a fast multi-core CPU is not required, but it does significantly improve scene-loading speeds.Д¬ompute capabilities required for octane features: Compute CapabilityД¦.0 and 6.1 (eg: Nvidia Titan X, 1080, 1070) Therefore, this function is limited by the card with the least amount of VRAM. All textures, HDRI, geometry, and other scene elements must fit into a functional memory вЂ“ each render GPU must have the same copy of all of the scene elements to complete the process. NOTE: Using multiple GPUs together combines the cores, resulting in a linear speedup, but VRAM is not compounded. The official list of NVIDIA CUDA-enabled products is located at. OctaneRender scales perfectly in a multi-GPU configuration and can use different types of NVIDIA cards at once - e.g., a GeForce RTX 2080Ti combined with a Quadro RTX 6000.

GeForce cards are fast and cost-effective, but have less VRAM than Quadro and Tesla cards. GPUs from the GeForceВ® line are usually clocked higher and render faster than the more expensive QuadroВ® and Tesla GPUs. Texture limits and differing power efficiency ratings also apply depending on the GPU microarchitecture.

OctaneRender also requires a minimum of 8 GB RAM, and we recommend 16 GB or more. RTXв„ў 20 Series, Titan RTX, GeForce RTX, and GTX 16 Series), QuadroВ® GPUs, Voltaв„ў GPUs, GTX Titan (high-end), Pascalв„ў (GTX 10xx), Maxwell (GTX 7xx, GTX8xx, GTX9xx), and Keplerв„ў (GTX 680, GTX 690).

#Octane render software drivers#

OctaneRender requires the latest CUDAВ® 10 drivers and a CUDA-enabled NVIDIAВ® video card with support for compute capability 3.0 or higher.