There are lots of tests on the net that compare power consumption between different cards under load and idle conditions.
Under load the Titan and cards with similar amounts of cores can draw up to 300 Watts peak, averaging in at 250 to 270 Watts.
In idle mode I believe to have read that those cards consume around 15 watts only.
Depending on your other components in your system (Number of CPUs, hard drives) you should buy a power unit that can handle the load.
I only have a third generation 4 core i7 (90 Watts TDP) and one SSD (like 3 Watts max?) , and together with the power consumption of the mother board itself I get away with a 450Watts power supply as long as I only have 1 of those graphics cards installed. The picture changes with more cards and more CPUs accordingly.
Atm I'm longing for hair/fur/strands support in RS too, it keeps me from using it on the current Job.
quick question, whats the powerdraw when graphics cards are idle? (purely used as gpgpu, since no monitors attached)On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 7:20 PM, Mirko Jankovic <mirkoj.anima...@gmail.com> wrote:
I can totally confirm about Redshift.Actually I was saving for dual Xeon system as well but then tested Redshift and figured that for price of one Xeon CPU then I've got 2 titans... so at the end I built 4x Titan system and it eats through everything, and still with i7 3930k can do CPU rendering if / when needed.Still beta but works great for 99% of the tasks. One comp render farm :)On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 8:59 AM, Emilio Hernandez <emi...@e-roja.com> wrote:
It had happended to me that I am doing other tasks and the render finished quiet ago.The biggest added value for me besides of course the render speed, is that I can continue on other tasks while rendering with the same computer. I can start a render and still open Nuke or AE and do some other stuff while rendering.Hair is coming soon as well as strands. For me Redshift is so fast that now I don't render without GI. Also lighting is delicious as Redshift has also a progressive mode. So you can adjust things easily and creativly.Before Redshift I was saving to buy a double Xeon to have at least 24 cores of pure render power. With my old GTX470 I was impressed with the speed and quality. Goodbye to flickering with HDRI using FG. Since Redshift all renders come without any flicker and noise in the blink of an eye compared to MR or even Arnold. I started using it for production even from its first alpha versions.
Instead of expending big bucks to upgrade my machine, I bought a Titan and now I have the Titan and the GTX470 in my four year old i7.Goodbye to MB and DOF passes and then comp. Now from the beginning I have what I am looking for in terms of DOF and MB. Those two shots of the Coors can with pouring liquid were rendered with my PC in less than 5 hours in a single pass.
For a one man show, at least for me there is now no other render than Redshift.2014/1/7 Sebastien Sterling <sebastien.sterl...@gmail.com>Hair is unfortunately a breaker for me at this particular point as i'd like to get some xp in that domain, but Redshift looks nice enough, how does it handle compared to MR ? the number of times i've past the 15 min mark with MR waiting for 1 bucket before calling the time of death never knowing what param killed it...I may eventually get it, also need to check my Nvidia card.
On 8 January 2014 04:55, Emilio Hernandez <emi...@e-roja.com> wrote:
Faster than MR and faster than Arnold, and zero flickering with GI in animation.Hey Sebastian have you tried Redshift. The beta is only 100USD and it works like a charm, it is full integrated into Softimage and unless you are going to do Hair or Strands it is worth every penny. Specially for a one man show. Forget about CPU and use the GPU.In my case I can continue working while I am rendering and that is surely a big added value.
2014/1/7 Sebastien Sterling <sebastien.sterl...@gmail.com>9000€... it's going to be tough, but your worth it :)On 6 January 2014 13:34, Sven Constable <sixsi_l...@imagefront.de> wrote:
Maybe true but one thing to keep in mind is you don't have to spend extra money for mental ray (at least no significant amount). For one man shows like me mr is still useful. I use it on a small farm with 8 nodes plus the workstation. Switching to arnold will cost me 9000€ . Thats roughly the same cost that my whole DCC apps are about. I see mr like I see the FXTree...it's does not compete to nuke but it's integrated in soft and already there. I agree that there aren't any reasons to stay with mr except the the expense factor and legacy things.
sven
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From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Tim Leydecker
Sent: Monday, January 06, 2014 12:12 PM
To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com
Subject: Re: rumor, Soft dead within the next year
Now while we are at it.
I´m currently preparing assets that need to be free of 3rd party functionality.
This means I have to set them up with a mR shading network to start folks off with.
mental ray. The common thing between 3DSMax, Maya and Softimage.
Please.
Kill it.
It´s not getting anyone anywhere anymore. I don´t want to discuss details or legacy reasons.
Kill it. It´s over. It won´t come back.
Selling three different DCC apps that actually share the fact that you will first have to invest in a 3rd party renderer to get something looking half way decent out of them can´t be the most ideal situation but a pretty nice way of creating an industry standard of wasting people´s life with forcing them in personal overtime.
What a crap.
Really.
Provide a renderer that actually works as advertised. Or don´t make me pay for that mR crap.
tim
On 06.01.2014 11:38, Graham Bell wrote:
> Ah, the Dreamcast, a fine console but flawed form the beginning. The tech was ok, but really just a pc and essentially the predecessor to the Xbox.
> The problem with the Dreamcast was that it launched right in the middle of when a lot of developers were looking to retool for the PS2. People were caught in the middle of whether to go short for the Dreamcast, or go long for the PS2. Most went with the PS2 and then eventually the Xbox.
>
> On the Soft and Maya usability front, personally I don't mind both, but then I've always been used to jumping between the two, even back in the Power Animator and Soft3d days.
> I've often heard that Maya is hard to learn, or its UI is tricky, but I think this is one of those myths. It's really no better, or worse than any other package to learn really. The one thing to remember about Maya, is that it's very open, it was designed that way. So there can be different (some would say to many) ways to do the same thing. Also, Maya has a lot of preferences, so you can actually change many things, including the UI. It's mastering those things, that can often be the trick. I still see people now, some experienced Maya vets, who aren't using the hotbox or marking menus correctly and they can be key to Maya's UI and usability.
>
> However I'd still like some Softimage fairy dust sprinkled on some of
> Maya's UI though. Now when it comes to Max, don't get me
> started.......:-)
>
>
>
> From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com
> [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Dan
> Yargici
> Sent: 06 January 2014 09:44
> To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com
> Subject: Re: rumor, Soft dead within the next year
>
> Softimage is the Dreamcast of DCC apps.
>
> Playstation had the slick marketing, Dreamcast had the tech but got chewed to pieces by the Playstation hype machine and Playstation won. When Sega finally gave up on the console business every man and his dog came out singing the praises of the Dreamcast.
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 11:21 AM, Stefan Kubicek <s...@tidbit-images.com<mailto:s...@tidbit-images.com>> wrote:
> Is it just my biased point of view that all studios that closed or filed for bancruptcy last year were Maya based?
> It could of course be that there are more Maya based studios closing than Softimage based ones simply because there are more Maya based studios, but I still smell a pattern there.
>
> I always felt that the number of users on Softimage is directly related to marketing efforts. I remember Alias/Wavefront doing a remarkable job in the early days of Maya in this regard. I never saw anything like that happening for Softimage at any time of it's existence.
> Ultimately, there are only two types of 3D artists: those who use Softimage, and those who have never tried. -> Get more prople to seriously try it.
>
>
>
>
>
>
> So guys, I spent a weekend working with Maya...HOW THE F@CK THIS PROGRAM IS USED IN PRODUCTION?????????
>
>
> This is the same question I always ask myself after using Maya when required... and Maya being the "Industry Standard" makes you understand so many things about the industry standards...
>
> [http://img694.imageshack.us/img694/8965/erojamailpleca.jpg]
>
> 2014/1/6 Szabolcs Matefy
> <szabol...@crytek.com<mailto:szabol...@crytek.com>>
> So guys, I spent a weekend working with Maya...HOW THE F@CK THIS PROGRAM IS USED IN PRODUCTION?????????
>
> Ok, I can use Maya, I have a quite solid background working with Maya,
> but seriously guys...It's so overcomplicated, and brainkilling...In
> Softimage almost everything is just fine (OK, we need development),
> but in Maya, the easiest task takes quite long compared to
> SI...Finally I found myself fixing UVs, Unfolding, etc. in
> Softimage...Anyway, I need some samples in Maya, so I take a big
> breath, and continue working with Maya...But seriously, Softimage is
> way better in many point of view. It has no artisan, has no PaintFX,
> but for example rendering is way faster (with MR), shading setup is
> way faster, modeling is lot faster, and so on. So I really don't
> understand, how come that Softimage is not acknowledged at all. I
> swear guys, that I'll spread the Word of Softimage
>
>
> Cheers
>
> Szabolcs
>
> From:
> softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com<mailto:softimage-bounces@listp
> roc.autodesk.com>
> [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com<mailto:softimage-bounc
> e...@listproc.autodesk.com>] On Behalf Of Henry Katz
> Sent: Sunday, January 05, 2014 8:18 PM
> To:
> softimage@listproc.autodesk.com<mailto:softimage@listproc.autodesk.com
> >
> Subject: Re: rumor, Soft dead within the next year
>
> Good thing I asked.
>
> On 01/04/2014 05:40 PM, Stephen Blair wrote:
> Softimage doesn't support Python 3.x
>
>
> On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 3:26 PM, Henry Katz <hk-v...@iscs-i.com<mailto:hk-v...@iscs-i.com>> wrote:
> Steve,
>
> No issues with python 3.3 as well, before I bruise my knuckles on the bleeding edge?
>
> Cheers,
> Henry
> On 01/03/2014 02:47 AM, Steven Caron wrote:
> really?
>
> install pyqt
> set softimage to use system python, uncheck...
> file>preferences>scripting>use python installed with softimage run the example scripts pyqtforsoftimage plugin provides. or just 'import PyQt4'
>
> s
>
> On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 10:27 PM, Angus Davidson <angus.david...@wits.ac.za<mailto:angus.david...@wits.ac.za>> wrote:
> A non nonsense guide to installing pYQT would be great. So many great tools are never used because people cant get past trying to get the install to work.
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