Craig Ramsay Posted August 28, 2002 Share Posted August 28, 2002 Anyone here use a Renderdrive or Pure card here? If so what do you guy's use them for and what do you think of them as a rendering option? Cheers Craig Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dwright Posted August 28, 2002 Share Posted August 28, 2002 I bet that technology is going to die. GPU based rendering engines are going to take over soon. BTW is way cheaper to get AMD's workstations rather than pating for those. well that is my opinion David Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig Ramsay Posted August 30, 2002 Author Share Posted August 30, 2002 Hmmm im not so sure! I'm beta testing a new shader on the renderdrive that produces a fake GI and it is very fast so far It would be good for doing exterior scenes with a GI look that wouldnt take forever to render but maybe not so good for interiors Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dwright Posted August 30, 2002 Share Posted August 30, 2002 well, I bet things are going to move GPU based were rendering engines will use your nvidia/ati card ala exluna (even that I personally think that exluna rendering engine sucks), 2nd, I have seen active interior real-time GI on a P4 2.3Ghz at a siggrapch conference. The cost of a render drive vs depreciation vs computer cpu speed increments simply does not make a business point to me. I don't see that model working in the long run. From a bs point of view I prefer to invest in US$1300 dual AMD based machines, and I can use all the plugs I want, different rendering engines, and use them for compositing rendering engines at the same time. I predict that GPU based is the future, well for some is already a reality. that is my opinion David Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Jeff Mottle Posted August 30, 2002 Administrators Share Posted August 30, 2002 I have seen active interior real-time GI on a P4 2.3Ghz at a siggrapch conference. Here is a link to view the video that David is talking about. Pretty impresive stuff. http://research.microsoft.com/~ppsloan/FullVideoSig02.wmv [ August 30, 2002, 05:54 PM: Message edited by: Jeff Mottle ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matt_vinoir Posted August 31, 2002 Share Posted August 31, 2002 Pure is a very nice bti of kit, being a hardware rneder card aswell, its going to be faster, about 10 x in the right circumstances. The results are nicer as well, but be honest who is going to £2500 + for a render card?!?!?! Not me for certain! How many starving children can that feed! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nisus Posted August 31, 2002 Share Posted August 31, 2002 damn! nice! Do you got more video links on superb siggraph stuff jeff? I would love to see more of it! (Bet I'm not alone too... right? rgds nisus ps: better start up a new topic of course Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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