I'd stay clear of the ATI/AMD consumer cards if I were you. From our experience Soft becomes generally less stable (crashing a lot more), and the raycast selection is going haywire sometimes.
Chris On 11/12/14 04:44, phil harbath wrote: > I went Redshift and have been very pleased. I can get by using a lot less > computers than before on most projects, volume smoke is pretty much all I > use MR for anymore. I have several computers with a combination of 780TI, > 770, and 970, while I think the 780Ti give the best performance, it really > makes more sense to buy the 970 as they are priced better or 980 if you have > more cash. The Redshift say go with the cards with the most ram (that would > be Titan 6tb, if you got even more cash), depends on your needs of course. > > From: David Rivera > Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2014 8:51 PM > To: Softimage Mailing List > Subject: Best graphic card for Softimage? > > I know this subject has been posted a lot over the years, but it happens that > I read a benchmark performance between autodesk products on certain webpage. > They tested Radeons vs Nvidias and turns out that Mudbox and Softimage ran > better on AMD (Radeons) - this is mental ray render. > > > So I was wondering whether to go full on mental ray (CPU) or take my savings > and put it on a GPU renderer? Either case, now a days, which is the middle > ranked graphic card for softimage? (My budget is around 1k). > > > Thanks. > > David Rivera > 3D Compositor/Animator > LinkedIN > Behance > VFX Reel >
