gtrdon posted at 3:13PM Sun, 18 September 2016 - #4283751

_RorrKonn I am a little confused. Is the preview mode (one that appears without hitting the Render Button) considered a "Real Time Render" when running a animation in preview mode? And can the board improve the speed and appearance if I upgrade the graphics board to a higher performance one? I am afraid that I may buy a very expensive board with features on it that Poser software cannot utilize. _

Hi there

Upgrading to better and expensive GPU will not result in "better" performance,speed or appearance in preview mode,as Preview mode is till based on OpenGL or SreeD,where you will benefit you will be using Superfly,Octane and other SW which do use GPU for rendering

For animation and for better preview and faster animation(not sure if animation is multithreaded as preview mode is not multithreaded at all) I would suggest start with faster CPU and more RAM,in many cases I've encountered in past,better GPU only helps if you have some poor GPU and have low VRAM on GPU,like when you have scene with several V4 which do use 4k maps and then you have several large props like is interior from TruForm etc,then I would recommend to check GPU-Z

With yours current GPU you should be OK if you have 4GB GTX580,this card don't have many CUDA cores and in many apps like is Superfly or Octane yours GPU can be slower like some i7 CPU,but you will need to check that and do test,I've posted in past benchmark over RDNA and here is link on dropbox

https://www.dropbox.com/s/5nhdtxnd4foo0n9/RDNA%20Test.rar?dl=0

You can try this benchmark and post the result there

Hope this helps

Thanks,Jura