Maya 6 Rendering, which Workstation card?

[LoStMaTt]

I need a very high end video card for some major major rendering.

Which high end workstation card would you go with?

ATI's FireGL line? Or an nVidia Quadro series? Must be PCI-X

 

[rancor]

I need a very high end video card for some major major rendering.

Which high end workstation card would you go with?

ATI's FireGL line? Or an nVidia Quadro series? Must be PCI-X

Quadro its about 2 to 3 times faster in Maya view ports.

Might want to take a look at the new wildcats from 3d labs altough they are alot more costly they do give you alot more power

 

[LoStMaTt]

Anyone actually own one of these high end cards? I am looking for something like this

http://www.atacom.com/program/print...5847_68_110_212_224&Item_code=VIDA_PNYX_Q4_3G

It needs to be PCI-X though.

 

[rancor]

my co workers have em, hmm I think the next line of quadros are out and they definitly have pci-e.

 

[BoK]

I need a very high end video card for some major major rendering.

eh? You mean hardware rendering and/or working dense meshes with textures and high quality lighting in the perspective window? Software rendering like mental ray as you probably know is entirely dependent on cpu and memory.

I use an older quado 750xgl and it handles most anything I can throw at it in Maya6. I'm sure the newer quadro 1000~3000 are that much better. Highly recomended.

 

[rancor]

Thats changing maya now can use the gpu for final rendering. Also nvidia has a solution too.

 

[pxc]

I don't see any Maya 6 benchmarks yet.

Maya 5 benchmarks: http://graphics.tomshardware.com/graphic/20030916/opengl-19.html

The Quadro FX cards are about 15% faster than the FireGL cards. Maya 5 also had GPU final rendering, so it's probably similar to relative Maya 6 performance. I don't see any FireGL X3 or the new Quadro FX 4400 benchmarks yet either.

 

[rancor]

well maya strictly uses ogl and we know what will happen there hehe

 

[eXzite]

Maya's viewport's run nice and quick on the Quadros, the new 6 series have some updated line culling and smooth line hardware that's even faster than before.

Also, don't forget Gelato, there's a Maya plugin out for Gelato now called Mango, which will run your final (software) renders about 2 times as fast utilizing the GPU floating point units. (Edit: to clairfy, this only works with Quadro cards)

 

[rancor]

ah yeah thats the name lol