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August 22nd, 2008
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GPU Rendering
I am exploring the use of graphic card to boost up rendering speed. I believe there has been some talk on this topic.
My knowledge so far is that the NVidia graphic cards, Quadro or GeForce can use the Gelato Software developed by them to utilize the GPU power to speed up rendering. A film company Frantic film has developed a plug in called Amaretto to work with Gelato in the 3D Max environment but I believe that development has fizzled out. Has anyone tried GPU rendering for 3D Max or even Vray with success? I believe this will be very beneficial since I am using a quad core machine, never enough power.... |
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August 22nd, 2008
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Re: GPU Rendering
Vray won't use the GPU, mental ray might at some future time since nVidia bought mental images a while back. For now you would need to run a GPU-specific render engine and the ones currently available don't give you the same level of features or quality as Vray or mental ray, so your best bet is probably to stick with one of those and work on your optimization.
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Re: GPU Rendering
Hopefully at Nvision there will be discussion of this topic and many programmers around the world will share there findings with CUDA/Gelato.
http://www.nvision2008.com/Professio...-developer.cfm http://www.nvision2008.com/Professionals/ Title: The Future of Rendering Track: Technical Conference Schedule: August 25, 2008 04:00 PM - 04:30 PM SJCC, Room J A never-before-seen look at mental images's product strategy and roadmap for the upcoming year. Herken will discuss the next-generation rendering, shader authoring, and 3D web services technologies that are being developed at mental images. I'd say wait for some news on August 25th after this presentation. Last edited by Slinger; August 23rd, 2008 at 10:48 AM. |
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