Quadro P#000 or 1080ti for Character Animation

#1

I have searched far and wide looking for information on quadro vs geforce cards for character animation in Maya but all I can find is tests relating to viewport orbit/tumble FPS speed. I am after some real-world FPS comparisons for animation rigs and their performance when scrubbing the timeline. Deforming geometry is the comparison, basically.

Any clues or hints or links with these specifics in mind.

I got a cruel lesson concerning graphic cards many many years ago when I thought upgrading from a GTX250 to 560ti would increase speed for character animation, but all it did, for Maya, was increase the viewport tumbling FPS, etc., but not a single advancement when scrubbing. I don’t want the same thing happening again.

#2

I would go with a GeForce… Maybe you have time to wait some month new cards are on the horizon…

The gpu override does help in some cases but the rig has to be created with the ruleset for… If you use years old rigs it might not work…

http://download.autodesk.com/us/company/files/2018/UsingParallelMaya.html#gpu-override

#3

Thank you for the reply, Oglu, even if the news is disappointing. :wink: A great link, too

I can only guess how the rigs were created. Examples of the rigs I refer to are the infamous Victor Vinyls formula that are at most online animation schools. I think he’s been using the same personal autorig for years as they don’t seem to change. While they work with Parallel Evaluation mode on I imagine they’re not optimized with that in mind, as they made pre-PE Maya days. The others are Advanced Skeleton rigs.

Anybody else with an opposing view?

#4

Victors rigs weren’t designed with parallel evaluation in mind as most were rigged in Maya 2012-2014 I believe. He has made some updates to them recently to fix stuff like IK arms/legs breaking with P.E. enabled though.

I would say that there are reasons to be optimistic about rig performance in Maya going forward. AD previewed something recently that will be pretty cool if they release it.

Check out the last 10 minutes or so of this video (edit - maybe start at about 38 min).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvO8TvezsAk

For now I would say get a decent card but don’t spend crazy money on it, a GTX will probably be fine. Also max out RAM if you can. It might not make much difference now but it probably will at some stage.

Cheers,
Brian