PURE P1800 Rendering Card

[archpartners]

I was looking at buying a Pure P1800 rendering card. Because there is no much information out there. I would like to get some feedback from the members of the forum. Does anyone has it and uses it or knows how it works?. What are the pros and cons? it looks like something that could saves a lot of time. Thanks for the feedback. Max.

[Fernando Lino]

I haven't seen good photorealistic renderings with PURE, instead I'd buy a very good workstation and fR,Vray or Brazil.

[3dp]

http://www.arcimage.co.uk

most work done with the pures bigger brothers but the pricicpal is the same just quicker

if you need proper info mail me

[archpartners]

Fernando, I know the works don't look amazing but what I'm looking at is its use for animations, where time is almost important as quality. Im trying to consider if the balance is worth it. Look at some of the benchmarks:

 

http://www.artvps.com/comparisons.ihtml

[Devin Johnston]

The last time I looked at these cards and the render drives I discovered that you only get the fast speeds if you use their software. It comes with it's own materials and lights which have to be used, I don't know if they support standard Max materials but it woulden't matter any way since you would loose the speed. I decided to go with Final Render and take advantage of the distributed rendering process.

[animart]

what i understand of pure is that acelerate only if you use all your materials in raytrace that is from renders of hours you get 10 minuts even that 10 mins for a animation having only one pure for a 1min of render you need 300 hrs

a and pure dont acelerate radiosity even then is a great product

[archpartners]

The card is like $3700. The good thing is that if it's that fast, you spend less time duing maintenance on all your servers and having losts of hardware. That's why Im looking at it.

[luckytohaveher]

Please see this..

 

http://www.cgarchitect.com/vb/search.php?searchid=180378

 

There are posting from me and others.

 

Three things:

1.) ARTVPS stuff doesn't work with RPC content hardly at all. Use Got3d or something else for fill in.

2.) They don't really have a good G.I. solution. They have it, but it needs to be recalced at every frame.

3.) IT IS REALLY, REALLY, REALLY FAST for pushing light and polygons. If you can find a way to 'bake' G.I. it will be the killer deal. Maybe they have it now.

 

Their new software also allows for two PURE in a single machine. Each core is about a 2Ghz CPU, so two cards equals 16 chips (dual core each) or 32 cores total. You can always scale more chips by adding more cards around the office. I had a guy doing autocad, outlook, and mp3 while I was rendering through a pure on this system. He didn't even know I was there.

 

At one point I had 6 RD2000s, 1 RD3000 and 3 PUREs running on one job. It was insane! 3000 frames of six city blocks in one night. You could do the same now with 6 pures. A pure is about 0.75 of a RD3000 so go with the pures now that they scale. One time, I was using two pures in one county and rendering across the WAN to a RD3000 in another county on the same frame! They have killer tech...

 

Good luck.

[archpartners]

Ted, thanks for the info!. Very helpful. Max.

[luckytohaveher]

If you have any other questions, let me know. I will be busy the rest of the week, but after that if you have any specific questions post or send a private message.

 

Good luck!