Forum: 3D Modeling


Subject: Can U recommend a good 200-250$ graphics card?

marciz opened this issue on Jun 08, 2017 ยท 37 posts


marciz posted Thu, 15 June 2017 at 12:40 PM

Sorry I took awhile to get back here, been busy.

I'm taking notes here, for sure. Well, here's some info; again, my card is the NVidia GeForce GT620. I dug up the specs via Dell, and I'm pretty sure it's an XPS 8500, since the manufacture date on this PDF is consistent with the one atop my PC's cover--nowhere on its box or on the unit is the model number, which I'm not sure of since I got it in late 2012, new.

PDF here; http://downloads.dell.com/Manuals/all-products/esuprt_desktop/esuprt_xps_desktop/xps-8500_reference%20guide_en-us.pdf

It's the i5 processor, btw; as that is stamped on the front. It has 4 cores.


And also the graphics card; Total available graphics memory; 4096 MB Dedicated graphics memory; 1024 MB Dedicated system memory; 0 MB Shared system memory; 3072 MB

Direct X version, 11 or better

There's a note at the bottom of the page; The gaming graphics score is based on the primary graphics adapter. If this system has linked or multiple graphics adapters, some software applications may see additional performance benefits.


Some further info via control panel; Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3350P CPU @ 3.10 ghz. RAM; 8 gigs 64 bit OS, Windows 8 (my note; not updated to 8.1) And under "performance"; Processor--calculations per second 7.6 Memory (RAM) memory operations per sec. 7.8 Desktop graphics performance, 5.2 (determined by lowest subscore)--base score Gaming graphics--3D business and gaming graphics performance, 6.4 Primary hard disc--Disc data transfer rate, 5.9


As to whether Poser 9 or Vue Esprit 11 use OpenCL or CUDA, I'll have to contact them (an article on Vue said that they went with GPU rendering in '16, but I think I got my version before then; just need more info for ya). I tried to be redundant and give you as much info as I can for now, and it's very much appreciated.

Marc