Best GPU in 2025 for DAZ rendering?

[megaplayboy10k]

So, I currently have a 2080 Super, which is pretty decent for rendering. But I'm planning to upgrade my whole PC this year.
I'm hearing mixed things about the NVIDIA 5000 series, like the hardware isn't that much more powerful than the 4000 series, but the DLSS is using AI to generate more frames in game, which isn't all that useful for DAZ rendering.
I have also heard that since AMD cards can't use iRay, you're pretty much stuck having to get an NVidia card. Has that changed at all?
I figure I need at least 16GB and a bump up in speed from the 2080, so that leaves me with the 3090 Ti, the 4080 and 4090, and the 5080 and 5090. How much better would the 5090 have to be to justify the probable 2500 dollar price tag?

 

[Luuwanjing]

If upgrading the gpu can make your work easier, then don't hesitate to get a high end gpu, 32gb vram is very good for the next 4 years.

 

[n00bi]

How much better would the 5090 have to be to justify the probable 2500 dollar price tag?

That is subjective. only you can decide if its worth it for you and money isnt a issue.
but imo way to expensive.

But look at some of the

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5090 has: 21760 Cuda cores, 32GB vram, Raytracing cores: 4th Generation, 318 TFLOPS
4090 has: 16384 Cuda cores, 24GB vram, Raytracing cores: 3rd. Generasjon, 121 TFLOPS

 

[osanaiko]

I'm gonna wait till I see some benchmarks before believing anything NVDA has said about 5090.

GPUs have now reached the performance plateau just like CPUs did about 5-7 years ago. Single core gains since then have been incremental, not "2x in one generation" like we saw in the 90s/2000s. At the top end both red team and green are adding increased Die area (more cores but more expensive per die) and higher power usage (600W!!) to get those generational increases. The single "core" efficiency is only growing by 5-10% per generation.

Admittedly the 5090 is a cutting edge technical beast. Increased CUDA core count by ~20% is good. Higher memory bandwidth is good. But there's no way they've increased perf by three times over the 4090 for pure raytracing. I'd believe at most 40% better than 4090, and probably lower than that.

The 32GB sounds interesting, but i'd say that's more important for LLM usage. For practical Daz usage, even when running with multiple G9 figures in scene, you're not gonna run out of VRAM on a 24GB card unless you are loading straight 8K textures on everything.

 

[Jumbi]

With a probable retail price of around €2500 with taxes, The RTX 5090 better be far superior in 3D rendering than the 4090. Let's wait for the actual reviews and independent tests.

Anyway, on a side note, I was watching an introductory video of the card and the announced new RTX software solutions yesterday and it was almost insulting checking on the video how this luxury item that the RTX 5090 is can barely render 25 FPS in a game which is more than 4 years old (Cyberpunk 2077) when no auxiliary render technologies are used (i.e. DLSS Off). However, with DLSS 4 the game is able to render over the 200 FPS mark.

P.S. Currently, I own an RTX 4090 and although I'm not happy at all with the pricing of the RTX 5090, I can see myself purchasing one at some point if it beats the RTX 4090 by an objectively big margin at 3D rendering applications.

 

[n00bi]

But there's no way they've increased perf by three times over the 4090 for pure raytracing. I'd believe at most 40% better than 4090, and probably lower than that.

Yea. i dont see how this is is accurate aswell.
From my knowledge. the 5090 has the 4th generation ray-tracing and 170 Cores.
The 4090 is a 3rd generation with 128 cores.
How the heck did they manage to get almost 300% increasment in perf. with only 42 more cores.
Even with the faster bandwith the 5090 card has, i am in doubt about the perf of the RT on the 5090, i dont think is as good as they say. we will see.

 

[Insomnimaniac Games]

Intel I3 4370 integrated graphics is the future. Trust me bro.

 

[idTerra]

If you just want 16 gigs of VRAM without spending a fortune, 5070 Ti, 4070 Ti Super, and some 4060 Tis actually have 16G. Performance won't be the greatest though, (Specifically, do NOT get the 4060 Ti,) but having more VRAM is generally more important than processing power. For example, 3060 12G is better than 3060 Ti 8G when it comes to Daz. I unfortunately have the latter.
Or you can wait until cards with 3GB GDDR7 modules come out - hopefully we will see a 5080/5070 class refresh with 24G. With the current trend of Nvidia launches, though, I am not hopeful it'll be possible to get 24 gigs VRAM with less than $1000.

 

[MissFortune]

you're not gonna run out of VRAM on a 24GB card unless you are loading straight 8K textures on everything.

It's pretty easy to hit in Blender if you don't do any optimizing, though. But yeah, for Daz I've struggled to hit anything higher than 20.

With a probable retail price of around €2500 with taxes, The RTX 5090 better be far superior in 3D rendering than the 4090. Let's wait for the actual reviews and independent tests.

The thing you kinda have to keep in mind with the 90 class cards is that they're leaving gamer territory and entering professional/hobbyist territory. So, with 32GB of VRAM, we're getting real close to something like an A6000, which usually goes for upwards of $5k. The RTX lines are much quite a lot faster. By a professional (or even semi) user's metric, $2000-ish dollars isn't really a whole lot.