# Better GPU will benefit or not VR volume rendering

**URL:** <https://discourse.slicer.org/t/better-gpu-will-benefit-or-not-vr-volume-rendering/21008>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [December 10, 2021, 4:31pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/better-gpu-will-benefit-or-not-vr-volume-rendering/21008 "2021-12-10T16:31:57Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Showing post:** 44

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![davide445](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/davide445/32/13460_2.png) [@davide445](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/davide445)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2021, 11:25am UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/better-gpu-will-benefit-or-not-vr-volume-rendering/21008/44 "2021-12-19T11:25:38Z")

</div>

> [@Hao\_Li](#):
>
> I have tested the following scans on windows with 6900XT
> 
> 2367x1784x942 = 7G No  
> 1950x1830x1600 = 11G Wrong stitching  
> 885x1300x1230 = 5G Yes  
> 2125x2510x938 = 10G No  
> 1937x1829x951 = 6,5G Wrong stitching  
> 2836x1948x2664 = 14G No  
> 1928x1927x937 = 6,8G Wrong stitching  
> 2098x1919x936 = 7G No  
> 1268x1454x1064 = 3G yes  
> 2572x1837x951 = 8G no

Might I ask you if will be possible to use volume crop changing the spacing scale of your 1268x1454x1064 volume to 0.9, and test this way on the 6900 XT.  
This since seems apart the GL\_MAX\_3D\_TEXTURE\_SIZE = 2048 topic might be some wrong shared memory management.  
Looking at your numbers and seeing the GPU memory usage on my side I got the idea to verify why in some cases you have problems even if the texture resolution is below 2048, and created this table

| Res | Hao\_Li disk | Hao\_Li results | VRAM needed (GByte) |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2367x1784x942 | 7G | No | 29.6 |
| 1950x1830x1600 | 11G | Wrong stitching | 42.5 |
| 885x1300x1230 | 5G | Yes | 10.5 |
| 2125x2510x938 | 10G | No | 37.3 |
| 1937x1829x951 | 6.5G | Wrong stitching | 25.0 |
| 2836x1948x2664 | 14G | No | 109.7 |
| 1928x1927x937 | 6.8G | Wrong stitching | 25.9 |
| 2098x1919x936 | 7G | No | 28.1 |
| 1268x1454x1064 | 3G | Yes | 14.6 |
| 2572x1837x951 | 8G | No | 33.5 |

Where the VRAM needed is calculated considering 16bit (2 byte) resolution at every index, so 8 byte per voxel.  
Appear to me you got problems not only if the slice number is more than 2048, but also if the needed VRAM is greather than your GPU VRAM, 16GB in your case.  
When both the conditions are met (no more than 2048 slices and no more than 16GB VRAM required) you have no problems (two cases).  
So upscaling 10% that volume create a new one requiring more than 16GB and if my hypotesys is true you will need to start having problems even if the slice are less than 2048.

---

_[View the full topic](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/better-gpu-will-benefit-or-not-vr-volume-rendering/21008)._