RE: NVIDIA Unleashes Quadro 6000 and 5000 Series Workstation GPUs

animatortom — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 01:32:39 GMT

"I saw many demos ....several days of demos."

That is the key word,....DEMO!

It is one thing to set up a demo system with demo files. When run through properly set up files it can be made to look like it works well. In practical application, it is a whole other matter. If they had a completely tricked out system with twin Xenons and 128GB of RAM with dual 8800's then yes it would look like it rocks. They haven't had to do much to OpenGl because the development has been complete and for the basics of 3D is working well after years of development.

DX is a new direction for DCC. The thing with Max, is that it requires a ton of RAM and a powerful CPU. If you have a six-core with around 64GB or RAM then with just the Firepro 4800, it would rock! the others are overkill unless you have a strong system to begin with. Maya relies more on the GPU so it benefits as long as it has more than 1GB on the GPU. With a crappy system, the 8800 is fairly useless in Max. In Maya it is almost three times as fast.

So if they are demoing it, then I can guarantee, they would have it running on a completely tricked out system inside a simple looking case just for show.

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RE: NVIDIA Unleashes Quadro 6000 and 5000 Series Workstation GPUs