I've set my GPU fans to run at a fixed speed of 75% because I'm rendering a scene in Blender to MP4. I set it at that speed to prevent it from overheating. The resolution of the scene is 800 x 600 and the sample count of each frame is 4,500 samples. So far the render process has been going for almost an hour. My GPU is an EVGA RTX 3060 Ti XC. How severely will this entire process wear out or damage the card?
#Concerned about the lifespan of my graphics card
vapid canyon
void tartan
I've set my GPU fans to run at a fixed speed of 75% because I'm rendering a scen...
normal use, as long as your not overheating
i use a 4080 for rendering, i just keep the fans on auto cause fixed is annoying letting it cool off when it ramps up and then it goes back down
vapid canyon
is there a way to get better performance using a 3060?
it takes almost two minutes just to render a single frame of video in blender
void tartan
turn on persistent data ond enable cuda acceleration if you havent done so already
void tartan
it takes almost two minutes just to render a single frame of video in blender
you havent enabled cuda and gpu then, your probably using your cpu only
make sure you have this selected
vapid canyon
already enabled
void tartan
and in performance use persistent data, uses more ram but slightly faster
void tartan
already enabled
make sure your device is set to gpu compute
vapid canyon
persistent data didn't really do much
i do see a slight increase in speed
thats really it
void tartan
yeah its a slight increase but it helps
vapid canyon
what would happen if i kept this running all night?
void tartan
what would happen if i kept this running all night?
Nothing
I've done a render that has taken 4 days 😄
Split up of course Incase something happens but pretty much running nonstop