What's the Best GPU for Character Animator ?

Report · May 28, 2020

Hi guys today I am posting this post to ask you

"what's the best GPU for the Character Animator"

I really need to know this because my puppet is running a bit slowly...

I know by adjusting the size of the puppet I can get higer fps

but I want to avoid resizing ... (yes I resized and got higher fps but

I prefer the original size so I scaled it back to it's orginal size)

I don't know what's more important and used for Character Animator between CPU or GPU

but my CPU is actually pretty not bad (AMD Ryzen 3900x)

and I have enough Ram (32GB 3200Mhz)

so I am thinking that my GPU is the source of trouble (Radeon RX 580)

So I am considering an upgrade but I don't want to buy a GPU which is

exclusively strong at gaming only, even I have to pay more $

I want to buy a GPU which is strong both at gaming and Character Animator.

So here comes my 3questions !

1.Whats more important between CPU and GPU for Character Animator ?

2.What's the most important gpu spec value for Character Animator ?

VRAM ?

Clock Speed ? (Core Clock Speed ? Memory Clock Speed ?)

Cores ? ( Number of Shading Units ? Compute Units ? TMUs ? ROPs ?)

3. What GPU are you using and recommend ?

Thanks in advance guys !!

Report · May 29, 2020

I was not going to answer because I don't know! But here are guesses in case useful.

I don't think GPU matters that much. Maybe it helps the final render, but I get the feeling its CPU bound. So good memory bus speeds might matter more than GPU.

More cores can really help if you are doing something like live streaming - one core for CH, one core for OBS Studio, 2 cores for the game you are playing and streaming for example. Less fighting over resources.

Oh, but if you are doing live streaming maybe the GPU will be useful for the game and OBS studio etc...

I have a Microsoft Surface Pro with 16gb memory and a desktop with 32gb of memory, beefy GPU, 4 cores instead of 2. It definitely renders faster on the desktop, but I cannot say why, and I would not be confident to recommend you spend more money based on just my experience. But I get the feeling that it is more compute based than GPU based blocking. E.g. I don't recall using the GPU for rendering going much faster (if faster at all), hinting to me the bottleneck is CPU (not GPU). Better CPU and memory bus is therefore my *guess* as to what is most important.

But I have not tested different combinations. I don't really know the answer, just nobody else had replied...

Report · May 31, 2020

Thank you for your opinion !

I kinda agree with you that it might use more cpu than gpu

(because most of adobe programs seem to use more cpu than gpu)

but my cpu is 12cores cpu bro !! 12cores ! Isn't that enough to run one program ? :((

So if I want a better performance should I upgrade my CPU to better one ?

maybe to 3950x 3970x or 3990x ? hmpf... that's too much expencive ...

btw have you ever tried to run character animator on both intel, amd cpu installed computer ?

I heard intel cpu runs smoother than amd's but I just can't confirm it

I only tried adobe character animator on amd machine so I can't be sure

Also can Someone confirm me if adobe character animator runs smoother on intel's cpu ?

if that story is true (that character animator uses lot of cpu and intel is smoother than amd)

I might have to upgrade my cpu to intel intsead of gpu

Report · Jul 15, 2021

Hello, have You read the system requeriments for characters? I have 2012 laptop Lenovo B590, low end, intel i5- the 3 or 4generation, it runs the programm. And the Official sys.req. says you need a Intel cpu.

I like AMD Ryzen for it performance and price, but in this case, I think for non trouble work choose Intel. 😞

Report · May 31, 2020

No, i have not tried on many different machines. Just my laptop and desktop. And i did not try to do detailed timings. It just "felt" faster. I would not suggest spending money without more information. My guess is it won't make a lot of difference. Machines are getting bottlenecked by memory access speeds these days is my understanding , so faster cpus don't always go faster!

Report · Apr 03, 2021

Dear brothers i read both of you and get conculsion that Intel processor is much much better than Amd because i.have only 2core laptop and it run CH, now i am serching to buy Desktop for CH and sure i will go for Intel 6 core with 12Mb cache laptop it will run CH samoothly. 😊 if you boht have any suggestion for me plz help me out about GPU ,