best from two worlds? - work with vray,iray using a GTX and/or Quadro

[eduardosilva1]

There is alot of people asking whats is best..a nvidia quadro or a gtx...

-a gtx its great to render the scene at real time (iray, vray RT)

-a quadro its great to work in the viewport (many polis)

 

Since its impossible to have both GPU on the same computer

What about the main computer have a quadro, and a small old computer with a gtx.

 

vrayRT will use the network and compute on the gtx...

and on the main computer i can keep working without any lags.

 

The second computer can be very basic, since it will use just the gpu.

 

Is this solution a good solution?

[Dimitris Tolios]

It is not impossible to have both in the same system.

 

You can have as many cards as your motherboard slots physically allow for, and all will work for VRay RT if compatible and with enough VRam to fit the scene in question. Ofc you can have even more in distributed network renderings.

 

If you have a quadro ofc, it needs to be the primary card with monitors connected to it, and have Quadro drivers installed.

You can also have a Radeon or FirePro AMD card as a display card, and as many GTX as you can fit for compute...same story.

[eduardosilva1]

It is not impossible to have both in the same system.

 

You can have as many cards as your motherboard slots physically allow for, and all will work for VRay RT if compatible and with enough VRam to fit the scene in question. Ofc you can have even more in distributed network renderings.

 

If you have a quadro ofc, it needs to be the primary card with monitors connected to it, and have Quadro drivers installed.

You can also have a Radeon or FirePro AMD card as a display card, and as many GTX as you can fit for compute...same story.

 

wont there be problems installing two different display drivers?

what about if the two cards are from different manufacturers?

 

I think there´s some issues when having two display driver on the same system.

 

Anyone has built a system with a quadro and a gtx on the same computer? and work with vray RT?

[Chris MacDonald]

You can also have a Radeon or FirePro AMD card as a display card, and as many GTX as you can fit for compute...same story.

 

Now that is interesting. Are there any stability issues when doing this?

[Dimitris Tolios]

Now that is interesting. Are there any stability issues when doing this?

 

There are myriads of horror stories about drivers etc, and many others that do it with no issues.

I tend to see the "myriads" of horror stories as people that don't have any real experience and they are reproducing stories of or people that might had different issues with their system and/or were really unlucky with their drivers.

 

In general, there are "urban legends" around computing that are reproduced over and over till becoming common notion on issues that might have been fixed ages ago, or weren't exactly true to begin with.

 

Things like "true professionals use macs", or "AMD(ATI) drivers are horrible and you won't be able to use/play with the cards" etc etc.

You know, the whole "I've read it in the interwebs or "a friend who is a programmer told me", thus it must be true and I must post to all my geek forums acting wise and confident about something I don't really know".

 

From my experience, things might get tangled up with drivers, yes, but nothing a clean uninstall / install (of drivers) won't fix. And that has been the case quite a few years now...then again, so many people still use Windows XP, or just the drivers that came with the card from the factory...I cannot guess each of the 100s of 1000s of combinations of things that go on, and hardly can the driver programmers - thus issues will be coming up every now and then. Nothing major in most cases.

 

So, on our subject, yes, you can have a FirePro driving your displays and GTX acting as CUDA accelerating cards, just like you can game with Radeon cards and having a GT/GTX card acting solely as a PhysX accelerator just fine.

[Chris MacDonald]

I'd be tempted to get a fire pro as a main/viewport card then, and several 770's for cuda processing.