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  5. Redshift 2.6.41 GPU Roundup: NVIDIA GeForce RTX SUPER Performance

Redshift 2.6.41 GPU Roundup: NVIDIA GeForce RTX SUPER Performance

Posted on August 9, 2019 by William George
Always look at the date when you read an article. Some of the content in this article is most likely out of date, as it was written on August 9, 2019. For newer information, see our more recent articles.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction
  • Test Hardware
  • Benchmark Details
  • Benchmark Results
  • Analysis
  • Conclusion: What Are the Best Consumer GPUs for Rendering in Redshift?

Introduction

Redshift is a production-quality, GPU-accelerated renderer. Traditionally this type of rendering was done on CPUs, but graphics processors (GPUs) are ideal for highly parallel tasks like this – and it is easier to fit multiple video cards in a single computer, to boost performance, than multiple CPUs.

It was written to use NVIDIA's CUDA graphics programming language, and since NVIDIA recently refreshed their GeForce series with new 2060, 2070, and 2080 "SUPER" cards we thought it would be a good time to re-test the whole RTX lineup.

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Test Hardware

Here is a list of the hardware we tested Redshift on. Everything except the video card was kept the same throughout all the test runs, to ensure that no other specs could impact performance. The operating system was a fully updated installation of Windows 10 Pro.

Test Platform
CPU Intel Core i9 9980XE
CPU Cooler Noctua NH-U12DX i4
Motherboard Gigabyte X299 Designare EX
RAM 4x DDR4-2666 16GB (64GB total)
Video Card NVIDIA Titan RTX 24GB
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 11GB
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER 8GB
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 8GB
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER 8GB
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 8GB
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER 8GB
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 6GB
Hard Drive Samsung 960 Pro 1TB
Software Windows 10 Pro 64-bit (version 1903)
Redshift 2.6.41

Benchmark Details

Redshift has a handy benchmarking tool which tests how long it takes to render an included scene. We ran this three times on each card, and used the fastest (shortest) time for each card in the graphs below.

Testing Hardware
Motherboard: Gigabyte MW51-HP0
CPU: Intel Xeon W-2125 4.0GHz (4.5GHz Turbo) 4 Core
RAM: 8x Kingston DDR4-2666 16GB ECC Reg (128GB total)
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti 8GB
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 11GB
NVIDIA Titan Xp 12GB
NVIDIA Titan V 12GB
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 8GB
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 8GB
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 11GB
NVIDIA Titan RTX 24GB
Hard Drive: Samsung 960 Pro 1TB M.2 PCI-E x4 NVMe SSD
OS: Windows 10 Pro 64-bit
PSU: EVGA 1600W P2
Software: Redshift 2.6.22 Demo Benchmark (Age of Vultures scene)

Benchmark Results

Here are the Redshift 2.6.41 benchmark render times all of the GeForce RTX video cards, along with the TITAN RTX for good measure, sorted from most to least expensive – with the new SUPER series cards in a darker shade of green:

Redshift 2.6.41 NVIDIA GeForce RTX, RTX SUPER, and TITAN RTX rendering performance
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Redshift 2.6.41 NVIDIA GeForce RTX, RTX SUPER, and TITAN RTX rendering performance

And here is another way of looking at the results, as percentages relative to the GeForce RTX 2060's performance:

Redshift 2.6.41 NVIDIA GeForce RTX, RTX SUPER, and TITAN RTX rendering performance relative to the RTX 2060
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Redshift 2.6.41 NVIDIA GeForce RTX, RTX SUPER, and TITAN RTX rendering performance relative to the RTX 2060

Analysis

The new RTX 2070 SUPER and 2080 SUPER cards are just incremental improvements, but since they are the same price as the cards they are replacing that is nothing to complain about. However, the RTX 2060 SUPER is a different story: it is a little more expensive than the vanilla 2060 – but it is also over 25% faster! Moreover, it has 8GB of memory instead of 6GB (just like the 2070 and 2080 models).

Nothing changed at the top-end of NVIDIA's line, though. The TITAN RTX is still the fastest card overall, but considering that it is twice the price of the RTX 2080 Ti, only about 5% faster, and isn't available in a single-fan (blower style) card it isn't really a good deal. Seemingly the only reason to go for the TITAN in this application would be if you needed the larger VRAM (24 vs 11GB) and you only wanted to use a single GPU (or maybe two at most, in a system with tons of airflow). If you need lots of memory space but also want multiple GPUs, take a look at the Quadro RTX line instead.

Conclusion: What Are the Best Consumer GPUs for Rendering in Redshift?

Because of the Titan RTX's cooling limitations, and how well Redshift and other GPU rendering applications scale across multiple cards, the best choice for most users is going to be the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti. The new RTX 2060 SUPER also offers great performance for the price, and the other SUPER series cards provide modest increases in rendering speed for the same price as previous models.

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