PDA

View Full Version : ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 (laptop card) for 3d work?

switchblade327
04-19-2010, 07:56 AM
I know ATI and Autodesk aren't the best combination and all things being equal, I'd always go with an nVidia card. That said, The Radeon 5870 card looks to be the top non-SLI 3d card for laptops right now in benchmarks by a good amount and there are some good deals out there on i7 laptops with these cards.

Does anyone here have any firsthand experience with this card in Max, Maya and/or MotionBuilder they could share? Are the ATI driver issues overblown or are they really that busted?
sentry66
04-19-2010, 07:59 AM
the weirdest thing is I've used other ATI mobility cards with maya on two laptops now and they've worked totally fine, but when I use a Firepro 3750 on a desktop, I get nothing but problems with maya despite it being a "pro" card
switchblade327
04-20-2010, 05:53 AM
the weirdest thing is I've used other ATI mobility cards with maya on two laptops now and they've worked totally fine, but when I use a Firepro 3750 on a desktop, I get nothing but problems with maya despite it being a "pro" card

That is strange. Yeah, now that I think back, my oldest laptop had a Radeon and I had no issues but that was quite a long time ago.

Anyone else have any experience with this?
CGTalk Moderation
04-20-2010, 05:53 AM
This thread has been automatically closed as it remained inactive for 12 months. If you wish to continue the discussion, please create a new thread in the appropriate forum.