Does Maya use CPU or GPU for realtime Polygon rendering?

Mr_Paris

Does Maya use CPU or GPU for realtime Polygon rendering?

Just curious. You open a high detail model in Maya, huge amount of polygons and you're just trying to look at it in the viewport.

What's doing the heavy lifting, your cpu or video card? What about when using smooth mesh preview?

Just curious.

JamesWild

Not used Maya in years, but GPU. If you see a huge performance dropoff with higher polygon models, that's likely down to small numbers of large batches being sub-optimal on recent GPUs in particular.

BARDLER

I believe the viewport uses GPU, and the rendering is CPU.

Scruples

The only app that uses CPU for viewport rendering is Zbrush afaik.