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Subject: Graphics cards.

BeZerK opened this issue on Jun 09, 2004 ยท 5 posts
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BeZerK ( ) posted Wed, 09 June 2004 at 2:53 PM ยท edited Tue, 26 November 2024 at 2:26 PM

Just a quick question. How much does my graphic card have to do with rendering speed or program performance, if any? I have an nvidia geforce fx 5200 ultra w/ 64mb ddr What would, lets say an ati radeon 9800xt w/ 256mb ddr do for me? Thanks, Ryan

DMM ( ) posted Wed, 09 June 2004 at 3:15 PM

Graphic ard will not affect rendering, RAM & CPU speed are the main things for that. Where your graphic card can help is in the program itself, a good OpenGL capable card will help the most as Vue uses OpenGL. (OpenGL is to applications what DirectX is to games.)

wabe ( ) posted Wed, 09 June 2004 at 3:16 PM

A graphic card simply has no influence on rendering time (beside maybe displaying the progression bar). Rendering is a numerical calculation that is done by the processor only. So what is important is processor speed and RAM. You never can have enough of that. And two processors are better than one, a second computer in a network is better than one etc etc. Graphic cards are important for scene setting and/or look at the results of the rendering. Thats all.

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BeZerK ( ) posted Wed, 09 June 2004 at 4:25 PM

Thanks guys.

TheWingedOne ( ) posted Fri, 11 June 2004 at 7:59 AM

Do you think about getting a new Powermac G5? I was guessing since you mentioned two graphic cards that come with the new ones. ;) I was thniking about getting the fast graphic card, too. but I'll save the bucks for some additional RAM.:))) Cheers, Phil

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