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Dear members of the forum! Please advise a video card (within the most budgetary limits) for the existing hardware, so that 3D runs more fun
Processor ntel (R) Core (TM) i7-8700 CPU @ 3.20GHz 3.19 GHz
RAM 32.0 GBMotherboard:
CPU type HexaCore Intel Core i7, 4300 MHz (43 x 100)
System memory 32681 MBVideo adapter GeForce GT 710 (2 GB)
The RTX 3060 with 12GB vram
https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/476211/rtx-3060-2080-ti-for-rendering
What's your budget? GPUs are selling for double their RRP at the moment and even cards that are two or three generations old are selling for more second-hand than they cost new so be prepared for some sticker-stock.
For Daz/Iray you need an Nvidia GPU. The more CUDA cores and memory the better.
As @Cage says, the 3060 (not the Ti version) is a good card. It's reasonably quick, and has 12gb of VRAM so you can have more characters (or higher SubDs) in your scene before Iray drops back to CPU rendering. It also 'only' needs a 650W PSU to drive it. It also happens to be the cheapest current-gen card, which means it's very popular and - depending on which country you're in - hard to impossible to buy. A non-Founder's Edition (FE) is likely to cost 1.5x to 2x the RRP and FE cards sell out in seconds.
The 3060Ti, 3070, 3070Ti and 3080 all have 8gb of VRAM, which is... okay, but more is always better.
That leaves the 3080Ti (which reviewer slated for gaming but has 3x the number of CUDA cores and is 12GB but costs $1000 for the FE and 1.5x and upwards for non-FE cards) and the 3090 (slightly more CUDA cores than the 3080Ti, 24GB of VRAM, $1500 for the FE and $2000+ for the non FE).
My (entirely personal) opinion is that the 3080Ti Founders Edition is the one to aim for; it's got almost as many CUDA cores as the 3090 and the 12GB of VRAM gives you a bit more space to play with without you having to sell your kidney to pay for a 3090. The downsides are the cost and that fact that it needs an 850W PSU.
That said, there's a good chance that Nvidia will be releasing the 40x0 series cards towards the end of next year and the supply issues might get resolved and bring prices down, so you could look for a 2nd hand GTX1080 or RTX20x0 series card to tide you over till the next generation launches. Almost anything above a GTX1060 or GTX1070 will be much better than the card you have at the moment (juts make sure to check your PSU will support a better card, a lot of pre-build systems only have low-wattage, low-quality PSUs!)
Good words of wisdom @SkippyTheMeh and I can't add much to what you said. I would choose a 3080Ti too if I had the money. Other things that need to considered is if you're going to go for a more powerful GPU you may have to upgrade much of your other hardware- DDR3 to DDR4/5, new PSU and MB, but the OP's specs seems pretty solid apart from the GPU.
As for the 40×0 series, unless you're animating in DS or a professional, they're not cost-effective for 99% of DS users. My most heavy scenes render out in < 30 minutes (2080), a 3080Ti could probably do it in < 10 minutes, but for me that 20 min difference just isn't worth the money they're asking for the newer GPUs.
20 minutes? pffft... a couple of fags and a pint and I'm up and running again.
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