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One of my friends was asking for a GPU that would perform well in 3dsMax, adobe after effects, Google sketchup, C4D, premiere, illustrator, photoshop, a few video pixel tracking software, etc etc. His budget is around 300-350 bucks, but the lower the better.

I was suggesting him GTX 770, though I said lower ones would probably perform just as well for that kind of work. Any suggestions guys? Open for Radeon alternatives as well.
 
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I have a Quadro 4000 and unless the software uses GPU rendering, spending that much money on Graphic card is useless. Octane works with GPU, but software like Max, Cinema 4D, Maya, Vue depends on total CPU cores and RAM.

If he can afford buy Quadro because it will give very stable working with Viewport and polygons. But will not help with rendering speed.

Depending on the software, ask him to get 2 more computers with quad core cpu and 12- 24 GB of RAM with a cheap GPU, and network render for fast rendering, through the current machine which can have either a Quadro or Titan ( if he can afford) or 780.

I am myself waiting for the 800 Geforce.

Basic funda is this:

CPU based Renderer Software: More Cpu (connected in network) and RAM...
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How much ram does his system currently have? Photo editing programs typically get a boost with more ram, say 8 gigs or even better 16 gigs. This isn't my area but I know some editors make use of GPU(especially the cuda cores on an Nvidia card). I don't believe you need a terribly powerful card, perhaps a 750 ti would be appropriate and might allow for him to add more ram.
 
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He has 16 gigs as far as I know, 750ti sounds good - but I kind of think 760 would be a better bang for the buck, don't you think? Well, within the budget at least.

 
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For 3DStudio, The Nitrous driver of the MAX works better than Direct3D or OpenGL. A GTX should be fine, a Quadro is better to manipulate a lot of elements or polygons in the modeling windows of the MAX, but they are a lot expensive.

If your friend is going to do rendering by GPU (VRayRT, Octane Render...) better a 780 or 780ti because the GPU is diferent tecnology from a 760 or 770, the 780/780ti performs a lot better in this process (is a Titan GPU but with less speed in Double Precision).

Of course 780/780ti are much more expensive than a 770.

If you go for a 770, I recommend the 4GB version.
 
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I have a Quadro 4000 and unless the software uses GPU rendering, spending that much money on Graphic card is useless. Octane works with GPU, but software like Max, Cinema 4D, Maya, Vue depends on total CPU cores and RAM.

If he can afford buy Quadro because it will give very stable working with Viewport and polygons. But will not help with rendering speed.

Depending on the software, ask him to get 2 more computers with quad core cpu and 12- 24 GB of RAM with a cheap GPU, and network render for fast rendering, through the current machine which can have either a Quadro or Titan ( if he can afford) or 780.

I am myself waiting for the 800 Geforce.

Basic funda is this:

CPU based Renderer Software: More Cpu (connected in network) and RAM = fast rendering.

GPU Based renderer software: More Ram and GPUs. Like Octane can use all the GPUS installed in your system to render a scene. So in that case he can buy 2 x GFX 770 or 780 for fast rendering.

 
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