christopherjohnson

Hi, I'm supporting a team of 4 designers with i7 960 / Dual Quadro 2000 workstations that want to upgrade. Their workflow is 60% Maya 2013 + Vray, ~30% After Effects and Photoshop CS5 (and maybe 5% RealFlow). Is better performance available by mixing a K5000 and GTX Titan (to support a V-ray RT Viewport and GPU config), or with a single 12GB Quadro K6000 for this workflow? I've looked long and hard to find if these cards work with CS5 and based on no findings online would guess Adobe CS doesn't even harness CUDA acceleration til CS 5.5 or 6. Awesome forum, thanks all. Chris PS: How would access to their 8 node mini Render Farm for rendering (8 x 6-core Xeon E5 2665) bear on optimizing new single workstation hardware choices? PPS: Is RT built into V_ray now or is that an upgrade?

If you have a card like the K5000 or K6000, do you need a second card for Maya + Vray? With Maya by itself everything I read say K5000 best (did not see K6000 benchmarks). When Maya V-ray discussed everyone says GPU Titan but have yet to find mention of viewport card being used but am assuming they all have at least two GPUs? With up to three cards to choose for Maya 2013 + V-ray over 60+% of the time, and Adobe CC the rest, which config would be best? Would a K5000 viewport and Titan GPU outperform a single Quadro K6000? Thanks alot for all your thoughtful feedback. C