I was wondering which card would be better for Autodesk's Inventor 9. They claim that now it has DirectX support in conjunction with Open GL so standard desktop cards that support DirectX will work just as well.
I am trying to find out the difference in expected performance between the 9800GTX+ and the GTX 260 Superclocked Edition. I know the GTX 260 is supposed to be the better gaming card but I'm not sure how that will relate to 3D CAD/Rendering.
Here are the specs:
9800GTX+
Core Clock - 740 Mhz
Stream Processors - 128
Memory Size - 1000 MB
Memory Clock - 2000 Mhz
Memory Interface - 256-bit
Memory Type - GDDR3
GTX 260 Superclocked
Core Clock - 626 Mhz
Stream Processors - 216
Memory Size - 896 MB
Memory Clock - 2106 Mhz (effective) <-- BTW what does effective mean here? Useless marketing term like "10,000:1 Dynamic Contrast Ratio"?
Memory Interface - 448-bit
Memory Type - GDDR3
Since 3D CAD/Rendering relies on (I am assuming) different parts of the video card than gaming, (e.g. more RAM needed, fewer shader processors needed), which would be the better card for me? The one with a faster processor and more ram or the one with faster ram and faster memory interface?
Quite a pickle I am in...
I am trying to find out the difference in expected performance between the 9800GTX+ and the GTX 260 Superclocked Edition. I know the GTX 260 is supposed to be the better gaming card but I'm not sure how that will relate to 3D CAD/Rendering.
Here are the specs:
9800GTX+
Core Clock - 740 Mhz
Stream Processors - 128
Memory Size - 1000 MB
Memory Clock - 2000 Mhz
Memory Interface - 256-bit
Memory Type - GDDR3
GTX 260 Superclocked
Core Clock - 626 Mhz
Stream Processors - 216
Memory Size - 896 MB
Memory Clock - 2106 Mhz (effective) <-- BTW what does effective mean here? Useless marketing term like "10,000:1 Dynamic Contrast Ratio"?
Memory Interface - 448-bit
Memory Type - GDDR3
Since 3D CAD/Rendering relies on (I am assuming) different parts of the video card than gaming, (e.g. more RAM needed, fewer shader processors needed), which would be the better card for me? The one with a faster processor and more ram or the one with faster ram and faster memory interface?
Quite a pickle I am in...