3Ds Max on Nvidia Geforce RTX 2060 graphic card ? will it work ?

[Anonymous]

Hello everyone,

I bought today RTX 2060 graphic card to use it for my 3Ds max projects. I wasn't sure on whether I should buy GTX 1070 or RTX 2060. I ended up buying RTX 2060. Unfortunately I cannot refund the card.

so I just wanted to ask if any of you have an idea whether RTX 2060 runs 3Ds max decently or not... please help.

Your help is highly appreciated. Thank you

[mgmcgill]

Looks like you never got an answer here.  So, what was your experience? Is it a good solution?  Have you tried the Nvidia Studio Driver with it? This article announces explicit Arnold 6 support in Maya and I would bet it is geared toward Max as well by now. I'm looking to upgrade my card and Autodesk seems to be in bed with Nvidia much more than with AMD. 

[10DSpace · Accepted solution]

@mgmcgill 

For what it is worth, I have been running Max 2019 and Max 2020 on the RTX 2060 without any problems.  My complete machine specs are below. I also run Substance Painter, Zbrush, and several Adobe Creative suite apps (Premiere Pro, After Effects, Photoshop) and often with 3 or 4 of them open at the same time along with usually 2 instances of Max. No problems for me. 

ASUS P9X79 WS Motherboard

Intel Core i7-3930K @ 3.2 GHz   (not overclocked)

Windows 7 Professional  Service Pack 1

32 GB RAM

Samsung  850 EV  1 TB SSD (System C: drive) Connected via SATA

6 other Western Digital Hard drives for Data connected via SATA

GeForce RTX 2060 Gaming Z  6G

Corsair AX860  (860W) + Platinum Certified Power Supply

[jon.bell]

Hi YMM,

Thanks for your question! I think any of the new RTX cards (including the gaming cards) will run 3ds Max just fine, as 10space notes here. Although it might not perform quite as well as a more expensive card (especially for GPU-based rendering), I think it's a good budget choice for running Max.

Please note: I recommend that you download the Studio driver instead of the Game-Ready driver for best 3ds Max performance. Thanks!