In comparing Graphics cards for a Macintosh computer, the AMD Radeon Pro 580X can deliver 5.530 Teraflops. The AMD Radeon Pro Vega II can deliver 28.18 Teraflops. Both have Open GL 4.6 and Open CL 2.0. The second card looks better, but would rendering in Poser 11 with it mean that Poser would render faster?

Poser doesn't do GPU rendering.

Don't waste money on the Vega II - it is GCN architecture and that is being replaced by Navi.

ssgbryan posted at 10:29PM Sun, 15 December 2019 - #4373459

Poser doesn't do GPU rendering.

Don't waste money on the Vega II - it is GCN architecture and that is being replaced by Navi.

You can't just say Poser doesn't do GPU rendering because that's not true. If someone new read that, they may get the wrong idea. Poser won't use the GPU on AMD cards for rendering so it's not useful to the OP, but anyone with a Pascal or lower card can enjoy the speed benefits of CUDA when rendering in SuperFly.

What cards do work for Poser GPU rendering? I've heard of the Pascal type, but I don't know what nVidia model numbers correspond.

I know of the Turing type, which is the newer GTX and RTX nVidia cards, and there have been complaints they will crash Poser when rendering in SuperFly. I haven't heard anyone complaining about rendering with these cards with FireFly, so can't say one way or the other, as I haven't tried it on my new laptop, which has a GTX 1660 ti card, one of the Turing series.

I've also heard of Quadro and Tesla, but don't really know much about them.

Nvidia Pascal cards are the 10XX series, eg 1050,1060,1070,1080 and their Ti versions. There are also Pascal versions of the Titan, Titan X and Quadro cards. Another popular card type used with Superfly is the older Maxwell architecture like 960, 970, 980 and the 980Ti.

I can say my nVidia 1080 works fine ?

Poser Superfly stop update after 2016, every nvidia card releas after 2016 will not work in Superfiy. Why Superfly stop update? because Smithmicro lay off the Poser development team.

ironsoul posted at 10:24AM Mon, 16 December 2019 - #4373478

Nvidia Pascal cards are the 10XX series, eg 1050,1060,1070,1080 and their Ti versions. There are also Pascal versions of the Titan, Titan X and Quadro cards. Another popular card type used with Superfly is the older Maxwell architecture like 960, 970, 980 and the 980Ti.

Thank you, ironsoul - just the info I wanted.

And thank you, Miss B The laptop numbering looks different, but I won't be getting a laptop.

seachnasaigh posted at 2:16PM Mon, 16 December 2019 - #4373517

ironsoul posted at 10:24AM Mon, 16 December 2019 - #4373478

Nvidia Pascal cards are the 10XX series, eg 1050,1060,1070,1080 and their Ti versions. There are also Pascal versions of the Titan, Titan X and Quadro cards. Another popular card type used with Superfly is the older Maxwell architecture like 960, 970, 980 and the 980Ti.

Thank you, ironsoul - just the info I wanted.

And thank you, Miss B The laptop numbering looks different, but I won't be getting a laptop.

I didn't think you would be going for a laptop, certainly not with the setup you've been working with for a long time. When I went looking for a new laptop, I was thinking of going with the GTX 1080ti, but was talked out of it, as the sales person said it wouldn't be good enough for the rest of the components I had chosen. My bad for listening to him.

Oh, well, the laptop I'm replacing never had a GPU, so I'm used to rendering in SuperFly with the CPU for the past 7 1/2 years, but at least this one's more than twice as fast.

JohnDoe641 posted at 1:40PM Mon, 16 December 2019 - #4373469

ssgbryan posted at 10:29PM Sun, 15 December 2019 - #4373459

Poser doesn't do GPU rendering.

Don't waste money on the Vega II - it is GCN architecture and that is being replaced by Navi.

You can't just say Poser doesn't do GPU rendering because that's not true. If someone new read that, they may get the wrong idea. Poser won't use the GPU on AMD cards for rendering so it's not useful to the OP, but anyone with a Pascal or lower card can enjoy the speed benefits of CUDA when rendering in SuperFly.

What is GCN architecture, and what is Navi?

The last statement about the speed benefits of CUDA when rendering in SuperFly, does this apply to Macintosh computers, or only to Windows?

inquire posted at 9:33PM Mon, 16 December 2019 - #4373540

The last statement about the speed benefits of CUDA when rendering in SuperFly, does this apply to Macintosh computers, or only to Windows?

CUDA is available for the Mac up to HighSierra with support for the GTX 10xx series. Nvidia has officially dropped support for any newer MacOS. Since Apple marked OpenCL as deprecated actual versions of MacOS are now Metal2 only.

A lot of false information here- Superfly is a port of the cycles rendering engine- and they, at the moment, have not updated their CUDA code to iinclude the RTX/Turing based cards. Nothing to do with Renderosity and poser development staff. When Cyles updates than I would imagine the poser team will do the same. AMD cards do not support CUDA( which is Nvidia based) so if using AMD GPU's it would make sense to pair it woth an AMD XEN 2 processor and use the multicore CPU approach that Cycles and Superfly can also use. I find using CUDA in 11.2 is very quick and even with a middle range 1070ti is more than capable of using JURA's superfly presets.

Just installed a GTX 1650 LP OC and can confirm: It crashes with Superfly, every damn time.

d4nthrax posted at 1:52PM Thu, 25 March 2021 - #4415352

Just installed a GTX 1650 LP OC and can confirm: It crashes with Superfly, every damn time.

I have a much newer card and I never had any crashes