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Re: Professional Rendering Video Cards
While it's true that GPU-based renderers are getting more and more mature all the time, they're only now starting to get features like out-of-core texture storage that are essential for rendering really complex scenes. And, of course, Octane's out-of-core texture storage is only RAM-backed, not disk-backed, so if you're… -
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Again: depends on what you want to do. Very important difference you need to understand (since people don't feel like looking this up themselves): Realtime rendering: viewport stuff, 60+fps, realtime superfast. This is what games do, this is what the viewport does. Uses realtime shaders, does things like post-processing,… -
Professional Rendering Video Cards
I hope this is the right forum section for this. I'm in the process of building a new PC and I'm having trouble choosing the video card. I know I should go with a rendering video card instead of a gaming video card. Here are some key points so you can help. * Specs: Cosmos 2, i7-3930K, Rampage IV Extreme, Samsung F3,… -
Re: Professional Rendering Video Cards
From what I heard, gaming video cards like the GeForce series and Radeon HD, is they are meant to push the frame out as quick as possible since their 'gaming cards' and gaming is 'LIVE'. The rendering cards like the Quardo, and the FirePro cards, they render the frame but then check it a few times for more and better… -
Re: Professional Rendering Video Cards
if you intend to do lots of rendering, best course of action would be to offload that to dedicated render machines (instead of buying a pro graphics card). that way, you can continue working on your workstation at full speed, preparing content and doing look-dev to send more jobs to the render slaves. -
Re: Professional Rendering Video Cards
I can chime in here. My last job I had at Game Time Live in Chicago (no longer exist :( and shut down) built me a crazy top of the line Falcon Northwest PC... Topped it out on everything and got one of the crazy ass $1500 quadro cards. I thought man this is going to be great. This super powerful card and I can do what I… -
Re: Professional Rendering Video Cards
If you're rendering a lot of stuff, you want a render farm, not a workstation GPU. -
Re: Professional Rendering Video Cards
And if you're doing serious offline CPU rendering and not much/any GPU rendering, buy a $200 gamer card and a second CPU. -
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I'm pretty sure that offline rendering is more dependent on CPU than GPU. I don't think a graphics card is going to affect rendering too much. -
Re: Professional Rendering Video Cards
GPU rendering is a lot more common/viable today than it was in early 2012 when this thread was created. GPU acceleration is used in many video editing apps these days as well. I still wouldn't recommend a workstation class GPU though. But 970/980 possibly even a 980 Ti if your work depends on something like rendering in…
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