firepro and geforce

[cielbleu]

Hi, all, I am building a new workstation with 3770k, v7900 Pro and 2x 8gb ddr3. I am interested in Andrew's idea of getting firepro and geforce install together. Currently looking at Gigabyte's mb z77-d3h, but it only support xfire. Will it work with firepro and geforce? or it have to be something like z77x-d3h which support xfire as well as sli.

 

I don't want over-spending on a mb because I probably would jump to 2011 wagon when 6-cores Ivybridge-e release later next year.

 

 

Thank you for advice in advance and most information in the forum is very helpful which help speeding up my decision making a lot.

 

Alan

[Dimitris Tolios]

Unbiased renderers like VRay RT GPU and Octane, do not need to physically connect the cards and/or activate SLI/crossfire X or whatnot (tho you will be hard pushed to find a mobo that doesn't support both).

 

With most GPU renderers you can actually have multiple cards, all different (unlike SLI / Crossfire X that usually require 2 or more identical cards), and the renderer will identify the CUDA/OpenCL capable (and compatible) GPUs and utilize them.

[charlieinolas]

hello everyone,

 

I'll join this thread cause I'm facing similiar problem, but on a smaller budget and need some advice.

I usually do interiors with some surrounding 3d exterior like trees and plants and what I care the most is viewport performance in wireframe/and shaded mode. I use max 2012 and I need to admit here that I'm very suprised - my card, 4670 does it quite well in 2012, what I cannot say about previous versions but the problem starts when there're more objects in the scene, and zooming/rotating becomes very irritating.

 

I found two cards that are in my budget range - firepro v4900, quadro 600 (and of course some mid range gaming cards like GF560, or 7850). I did find some info about quadro 600, but I couldn't find any about v4900.

My question is, would this matter which of them I'd use for my purposes? Gaming or workstation? Any of You has any experience with them or did any comparisons ?

Edited November 19, 2012 by charlieinolas

[Francisco Penaloza]

I am interested in Andrew's idea of getting firepro and geforce install together.

Why would you mix match Video cards drivers?

I have a quadro 4000 and GTX 467 and still have drivers compatibility problem, I can guess with ATI and NVidia it would be worse. I can be wrong though.

Now keep in mind, 3DsMax is fully optimized for NVidia software, NVidia own Mental Images, Cuda is everywhere, I feel sorry for ATI but there is not competition.

 

For Chalie, if you want real view port performance you better save money and get a Quadro card, the difference between the GTX 467 and Quadro 4000 at the beginning is not that much, but when scene grow in poligons, and wires get really dense Quadro card win.

Now if you want your video card to do GPU rendering, you better spend your money on GTX cards, cheaper than Quadros.