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.

Re: NVIDIA Unleashes Quadro 6000 and 5000 Series Workstation GPUs

animatortom — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 03:53:54 GMT

Thanks Raid, Ill give it a try.

The 8800 has problems in Max on stability in rendering issues. It also doesn't like when you load the Direct X driver. It only seems stable if I use Open GL. At times the wireframe gets about four pixels larger, like it is being drawn in crayon. When I load the X driver it has two of the viewports going blank. There is still the globals marker for any selected object yet nothing else. I can still switch any of the working veiwports to any view and they still work, just two are MIA.

In Maya the blend shapes sometimes work and most other times don't. It gets frustrating when you move the slider and you think the Blend doesn't actually work! Also any sub-object selection usually does not update when you are moving them or making any kind of adjustments. In both programs the material mapping tends to not update when changing UV's. That only seems to work half of the time. I end up having to zoom in and out decides to refresh the view, then it catches up and adjusts the map.

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RE: NVIDIA Unleashes Quadro 6000 and 5000 Series Workstation GPUs

Re: NVIDIA Unleashes Quadro 6000 and 5000 Series Workstation GPUs