AnimAitor
10-18-2006, 08:47 AM
Hi there!
I'm a Maya user and do mostly animation with it. I'm thinking about getting a new video card (work with single widescreen monitor) and as most animators I want to have the fastest timeline response (high frame rate when scrolling through) and also fast playblast speed.
I have some experience with softmodding both ATI and Nvidia and know that (or until recently, last successfull softmode was a AGP 6800GT) the gaming and pro versions are identical (except for some jumpers...) Unfortunately it seams that softmodding is impossible for the 7 series of Nvidia. But I will focus on Nvidia anyways since I've read that works better for Maya.
After reading hundreds of posts about which videocard is better, or if we should get a gaming card or quadro, I still don't know if using a specific driver for a 3D app (quadro) will speed up the frame rate while playblasting or scrolling through the timeline. My experience tells me that the speed was pretty much identical on a gaming card before and after the softmode but never tried with the equivalent real quadro version... and I'm talking about apples to apples comparison (same computer, just swap the videocards)
Also many people comment that SLI or QUAD will not boost your 3D application at all... than why Nvidia comes up with something like "quadro plex 1000"??? That's just some quadro SLI videocards working together to have a fast" realtime" view port response and high resolution output, right?
Now, what I would like to know is if running something like a 7950GX2 (dual GPU) will improve the frame rate on Maya's portview or should I go for a single GPU card like the 7950GT? Will a quadro FX4500 X2 or a FX5500 outperform the 7950GX2 on the frame rate scenario? I will appreciate if people with real experience can help me out (and probably others.)
Thanks again and see you around!
I'm a Maya user and do mostly animation with it. I'm thinking about getting a new video card (work with single widescreen monitor) and as most animators I want to have the fastest timeline response (high frame rate when scrolling through) and also fast playblast speed.
I have some experience with softmodding both ATI and Nvidia and know that (or until recently, last successfull softmode was a AGP 6800GT) the gaming and pro versions are identical (except for some jumpers...) Unfortunately it seams that softmodding is impossible for the 7 series of Nvidia. But I will focus on Nvidia anyways since I've read that works better for Maya.
After reading hundreds of posts about which videocard is better, or if we should get a gaming card or quadro, I still don't know if using a specific driver for a 3D app (quadro) will speed up the frame rate while playblasting or scrolling through the timeline. My experience tells me that the speed was pretty much identical on a gaming card before and after the softmode but never tried with the equivalent real quadro version... and I'm talking about apples to apples comparison (same computer, just swap the videocards)
Also many people comment that SLI or QUAD will not boost your 3D application at all... than why Nvidia comes up with something like "quadro plex 1000"??? That's just some quadro SLI videocards working together to have a fast" realtime" view port response and high resolution output, right?
Now, what I would like to know is if running something like a 7950GX2 (dual GPU) will improve the frame rate on Maya's portview or should I go for a single GPU card like the 7950GT? Will a quadro FX4500 X2 or a FX5500 outperform the 7950GX2 on the frame rate scenario? I will appreciate if people with real experience can help me out (and probably others.)
Thanks again and see you around!