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lushn
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Posted - 2011.02.09 03:49:00 -
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I was looking AMD's website for professional workstation graphic products. Looks like Firepro series for CAD and DCC. FireGL more for 3D. Then I saw GPU accelerators Firestream series. Then I realized I have lack of general knowledge.
Do accelerators work as graphic cards or to add additional power to graphic cards? Also very few thing about those crossfire compability. My board support Hybrid crossfire but it doesnt say much about it.
I was thinking to write ATI's forum then I thought maybe here is good place too. Finaly many CCP artists , modellers are here, also I see that many players have CGI and related professions.
So which AMD base GPU product should I choose? I will use for MAYA, 3Dmax, DAZ and similar design applications. Which product CCP uses on their design workstation? Any information /recommendations will be so usefull for newbie like me.
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Caleidascope
Minmatar Republic Military School
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Posted - 2011.02.09 06:40:00 -
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What do Maya, 3Dmax and DAZ recommend?
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Grimpak
Gallente Noir. Noir. Mercenary Group
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Posted - 2011.02.09 11:34:00 -
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wouldn't NV's Quadro be better because of Physx? ---
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Vogue
Short Bus Pole Dancers
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Posted - 2011.02.09 11:44:00 -
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Edited by: Vogue on 09/02/2011 11:46:28 Gaming graphics cards are given a different firmware to be 3d design graphics card. They supposedly cost 4x more as a lot more quality control is put into writing the drivers as 3d design graphics cards are often used for mission critical projects such as designing power stations.
You can get some regular ATI gaming graphics cards and flash them with their 3d design graphics card firmware equivalence. But only do this if you really really know what you are doing with lots of research.
But I am not sure If 3D Studio Max supports gaming graphics cards as they support DirectX. Though I have rendered a downloaded starship model with its camera animation sequence and It was rendered fairly quickly - 100 frames or so in five minutes.
A 3D design pro can give a better answer to the OP's post than myself.
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lushn
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Posted - 2011.02.09 20:09:00 -
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Originally by: Grimpak wouldn't NV's Quadro be better because of Physx?
Im thinkin ATI (AMD) bcuz Board chipset is AMD and CrossFire support it has. So Im planning two Graphiccard + Onboard graphics working together.
Other reason I prefer ATI I find rodeon's AA and AF technics better. Also I remember article I read. I dont remember exactly now but it was something about Nvidia uses same area for zbuffer and stencil buffer so it cant write two at same time (I may remember wrong).
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lushn
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Posted - 2011.02.09 20:29:00 -
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Edited by: lushn on 09/02/2011 20:32:09
Originally by: Vogue Edited by: Vogue on 09/02/2011 11:46:28 Gaming graphics cards are given a different firmware to be 3d design graphics card. They supposedly cost 4x more as a lot more quality control is put into writing the drivers as 3d design graphics cards are often used for mission critical projects such as designing power stations.
You can get some regular ATI gaming graphics cards and flash them with their 3d design graphics card firmware equivalence. But only do this if you really really know what you are doing with lots of research.
But I am not sure If 3D Studio Max supports gaming graphics cards as they support DirectX. Though I have rendered a downloaded starship model with its camera animation sequence and It was rendered fairly quickly - 100 frames or so in five minutes.
A 3D design pro can give a better answer to the OP's post than myself.
You are right , for Old Radeon 9000/9200/9550/9600 series cards, its possible to convert them to FireGL series worksstation equivalent via soft modding. But heard nothing about New HD series cards.
Compability is not issue, Although those 3d softwares companies behind the market to announce compability tests with new graphic producs. All of those programs run very well with any of latest card. Even latest Motherboard's onboard Graphic Cards enough for running them.
Answer that Im looking for ,do FireGL series workstation cards realy worth for that money? or HD series consumer cards will make better as money/performance criteria. I can get two HD series consumer card with twice as much GDDR5 memory with the money I pay for one workstation card with GDDR3 memory
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helmeo
Caldari Redwaffe
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Posted - 2011.02.09 20:48:00 -
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Edited by: helmeo on 09/02/2011 20:49:01 i have a quadro FX 4800 in the workstations at work (not CCP, but we use 3ds max, maya, XSI, houdini, and other softwares.), i have a GTX 470 at home. both are solid. I am sure ATI/AMD has similar cards, but personally i like nvidia and intel.
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Bhaal
Minmatar Sebiestor Tribe
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Posted - 2011.02.10 11:06:00 -
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I build workstations for 6 engineers in my workplace (including myself). I pretty much use NVIDIA quadro exclusively. I have tried the ATI workstation cards in the past, and had nothing but trouble.
As far as software, we use AutoDesk Inventor, AutoCAD, 3DS MAX, and Catia.
I am currently building new systems atm, and the first one passed its 72 hour burn in, and has been running for a week now without issue.
The GPU I chose for the new systems: Quadro
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