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Hey Desmond, would you mind testing your Quadro 600 on this benchmark? http://forums.cgarchitect.com/73746-graphics-card-benchmark.html

There are lots of views to this topic and I imagine many users are benchmarking their cards as well, but not many people are sharing their results. If someone has cards which haven't been included on the list in particular the pro cards from Nvidia/ATI please post your results so we can compare them. There will be differences between workstations but there will be trends as well. The original idea for creating this topic was to get enough data to help people choose their cards for max, as many of us have bought expensive cards hoping that they would perform better on max. Although the number of cards on the results sheet is still very small, it seems clear that the difference in performance between the consumer cards is very small. But how much faster will the pro cards perform with nitrous? That's why we need those benchmarks. Regardless of how their perform the real bottleneck seems to be max itself. You would expect such an expensive package to perform well but it seems we get the same old rubbish commitment from Autodesk. Instead of adding features no one uses and charging everybody for them, they should have sorted the one CPU core usage on max (which creates the display bottleneck). Maybe if enough people became aware of this and put pressure on Autodesk we can get this sorted and go from having graphics cards at 20-30% GPU usage to 100%.

Anyone with Quadro or firePro cards willing to do the benchmark?

hey Desmond, you can benchmark and compare your card here. http://forums.cgarchitect.com/73746-graphics-card-benchmark.html

Hi Desmond, difficult to know why is so slow but you can benchmark your card against other cards to see if there is a problem. There is another topic on this forum with a benchmark file and result table. Have a look on the link below and please share your score with the community. Thanks. http://forums.cgarchitect.com/73746-graphics-card-benchmark.html

thanks numerobis, it will be interesting to see if there are any differences between drivers versions.

My old ati HD 5750 used to perform very well in max 2011 (directX) but was not as good with nitrous. I wonder if someone has a more recent ati to test on the benchmark file. Also interesting will be to benchmark the AMD FirePro cards.

Thanks Dimitris, if you come up with a better benchmark file fire it through. In any way, due to the apparent single core limitation on max, it seems we will be limited to appalling performance we got used to. Sometime I wonder how can autodesk justify their prices with such flaws.

on what I could understand, there is a bottleneck on the CPU. If you check your CPU usage while playing the viewport only 1 core works. So you get the same amount of limited info from the CPU to the GPU but as you have a higher res (2560x1440) the GPU has to work harder giving you 30% usage. By the way, your benchmark has been included on the new result file (check first post). Thanks for sharing. PS: I wonder if the Quadro drivers make use of more cores?

Hi all, I've updated this post as I've changed how the results will be accessible to all. The main post is now here and not on the area forum (I could hear the flies on Area). Since ever the good old question of which is the best card for max has been around. Quadro's tend to be faster but at a ridiculous price. Image quality is a bit better but it all seems to come back to drivers. Gaming cards have faster technology but are slower in max for the reasons I already explained above. The only way to know and to save money on expensive and fast cards that will have a disappointing performance in max is to benchmark them. I have a small file I've been using along the years to compare cards which I'm sharing on this forum. Please download it and run it on max. Only need to open the file and press play on the timeline. The FPS will vary but there will be a value you can consider average. Record that value for realistic, shaded and wireframe and share it with the community. There will be differences in performance between similar spec pc's but eventually, if we get enough samples, trends will start to emerge. My values for nitrous in max 2012 are on the results file link below. I've noticed that Max 2013 seems to get a bit faster on earlier cards and slower on olders (at least on my pc), so if you could mention max version I'll create separate results for each version. Benchmark file: https://www.dropbox.com/s/amlcecn9cx11vmo/benchmark%20graphics.max Results file (will be updated as more results get posted): https://www.dropbox.com/s/up7fuw46vuk7ayp/benchmark.pdf Thanks