Hi Marc,
Thanks, I think that is what I will go with, off hand would you know
what brand it is, Asus, Msi, PNY, EVGA, Galaxy etc?
Leoung
On 8/20/2012 3:17 PM, Marc-Andre Carbonneau wrote:
We have the 560Ti and it works fine with Softimage.
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[mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] *On Behalf Of
*Meng-Yang Lu
*Sent:* Monday, August 20, 2012 2:56 PM
*To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com
*Subject:* Re: Graphic card for a workstation again
So glad I asked. Hahaha. I knew your thorough personality yields the
best answers. Thanks much!
-Lu
On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 11:53 AM, Matt Lind <ml...@carbinestudios.com
<mailto:ml...@carbinestudios.com>> wrote:
Anybody using Softimage in our building only use Nvidia GeForce. We
have many models and found some better than others. The 200 series is
very stable, the 400 series should be avoided at all costs, the 500
series is a mixed bag (560 good, 580 tempermental). We just got a few
computers with the 670 and breaking them in as we speak. I'm the only
person in the company using a Quadro as I have to determine if bugs
experienced in production are due to hardware or software before
filing a bug report.
On the few occasions we experience problems, it's usually an OpenGL
crash to blue screen or overheating -- both are driver issues. We
also discovered mixing and matching consumer and professional
components in the same box is a bad idea. Either buy a consumer level
computer with a consumer level graphics card, or buy a professional
workstation with a professional graphics card. When you mix and match
you run into driver related issues as the consumer lines like GeForce
don't go through the same level of QA and certification as the Quadro
line -- GeForces seem to be tested on a much narrower band of hardware
configurations. Although Nvidia releases driver updates more
frequently for the GeForce product line, you'll be waiting much longer
for patches to fix things in Softimage than with the Quadro line.
About 6 months in my unscientific observations.
As much as people complain here about Quadros being crappy, crash
prone, and over priced, I will say I have significantly fewer problems
than my colleagues here at the studio.
Matt
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<mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com>] *On Behalf Of
*Meng-Yang Lu
*Sent:* Monday, August 20, 2012 11:37 AM
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*Subject:* Re: Graphic card for a workstation again
Can you say which cards you guys are using, Matt? In the process of
building a system to do some GPU stuff alongside some 3D tests at home.
Thanks,
-Lu
On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 11:22 AM, Matt Lind <ml...@carbinestudios.com
<mailto:ml...@carbinestudios.com>> wrote:
We are a games development studio making MMORPG games. Most of the
computers we buy come stocked with ATI Radeons, but no matter how much
we try to make them work, they just don't. Crashes, glitches,
overheating, etc... We always have to swap them out for Nvidia GeForce
cards to get stability.
Framerate isn't everything, stability often matters more.
Matt
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<mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com>] *On Behalf Of *Mirko
Jankovic
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*Subject:* Re: Graphic card for a workstation again
Maybe it is so but it still doesn't change the fact that after
replacing gtx580 with radeon7970 I got HUGE improvement in frame rates
in viewport and no problems at all as well :)
It seems that all new gtx cards after 280 are crippled in an effort to
push overpriced quadros.
But ofc we need to make differences between big studios on one side
(usually huge budgets :)) and small to mid studios and freelancers.
