Nvidia QUADRO ....HELP PLSSSSS

[thiyagu arjunan]

Hi cG ,

 

Am looking for a gfx card for my pc,,i hav i7 16gb ram and gtx 560 card,,but my view port navigation was not so gd..much slow while using trees and evermotion cars..pls suggest me a gd gfx card ..quadro k2000 is gd?? or any ideas ..plsssssss fellas help me out.my budget is around 500$.....only for pure architectural rendering purpose and ps.

[Francisco Penaloza]

Sorry man, but you won't get any significant video improvement with a card under $500, the GTX 560 is a pretty decent card, your next step up should be a Quadro 4000 or more, not sure if the newest GTX series could have a significant better performance than your 560, and when I mean significant, so it is worth te extra $$$$, the K2000 wont be better, only quadros pro series will do. Maybe an AMD V5900 or V7900 or something but I have not use them for a while so hard to say plus they don't have CUDA so if you use GPU for rendering, that kills the deal.

at my machine I have a Quadro 4000 and a GTX 580, the Quadro outperform on CAD and MAX intensive view port task, for real time and CUDA rendering the GTX is faster.

BTW 3ds max is not the fastest viewport performance out there, so even with a great video card MAX still will disappoint you from time to time

 

Good luck

[thiyagu arjunan]

Hi Francisco,

 

thanks a lot for ur reply..i hav gt560..its gd..bt my max scene view ports safe frames r missing and evermotion hd cars r becoming too heavy to rotate..waiting timing is killing...and most of people saying gtx is only for gaming not for max and rendering???? is it???

thanks in advance francisco...

[Dimitris Tolios]

Traditional renderers are CPU only. GPU accelerated renderings started picking up the last couple of years for production stuff. Still limited in some ways, but when those work, work much faster than CPU only systems. Depending on your scene, you can always use them for a darn good active-shade view. Most single-GPU systems will struggle doing so, as the GPU rendering engine will demand 100%, so using more than one card - one more-or-less dedicated to viewport and one or more assigned to the GPU renderer yields more flexibility.

 

I believe the K2000 will be a decent upgrade over the 560 or any other GTX card, but I agree with Francisco that the $700+ range cards are in their turn a class above the $400-450 range ones (like the 2000-K2000 now).

 

Depending on whether you make money out of this, or you are just learning your ways, I would not invest heavily in a GPU.

Having a slow system actually has its own merits, as it teaches you being a more efficient user of the program. (the poor man's excuse).

[Francisco Penaloza]

Depending on whether you make money out of this, or you are just learning your ways, I would not invest heavily in a GPU.

Having a slow system actually has its own merits, as it teaches you being a more efficient user of the program. (the poor man's excuse).

true that

[thiyagu arjunan]

Hi ....Dimitris Tolios Francisco Penaloza ,

 

me ordered quadro 4000 ;-)))))))) tan u all