GeForce 3 or RADEON??

[SAITCH0]

Im about to enter 3d modeling school and will be using Maya 3D and Studio Max 3D and was wondering wich card to choose between a GeForce 3 TI-500 or a Radeon 8500 for those softwares.

 

[FatBurger]

Get a GF3 and turn it into a Quadro DCC. See Flamethrower for details.

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[starwrs3]

you might want to look at ATI's FIRE Gl series

 

[FatBurger]

Yeah, only $2000.

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[SAITCH0]

I know there are some video card made for those programms but my question is: Whats better a GeForce 3 ti-500 OR a RADEON 8500 to work with MAYA 3D and STUDIO MAX 3D??

 

[jchedley]

id bet on the gf3 actually, since the radeon seems to be more biased towards accellerating DX, rather than OGL...

although im not that knowledgable on gfx cards...

 

[Jake75]

Well, I understand that you want a fast card, but I don´t think there are that much of a difference between the two when it comes to 3D apps.
Also, it depends of what kind of scenes/models you are creating, Schools usually teach "light-weight" modelling, like characters for games...
But then again, faster=better, so go for the Gf3.






.Shitfaced.

 

[FatBurger]

The GF3 is better with OpenGL, and you can modify it to turn it into a Quadro DCC.
Forget the FireGL comment, he must not have been thinking about the cost.

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