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How much of a difference will a video card make when it comes to rendering?
I'm in the middle of building a system I plan to use for the next 3-5 years and was looking at the R9 290 card series. I game moderately but prefer to have stellar graphics when I do. That said I also hobby around in 3ds max and maya.
I'm moving from an i5 750 @ 2.67ghz with 4gb of ram and a GEForce GTX 260 Dell XPS.
The system I'm working on would be a 4790k OC'd to about 4.6-8 with air cooling Noctua NH-D14 on an Asus Z97-PRO mobo, 32gb DD3 dual channel 4x 8gb CAS 9 and I was considering the 290 card in either single or crossfire. All wrapped up in a Chaser MK-I.
Thoughts?
I'm in the middle of building a system I plan to use for the next 3-5 years and was looking at the R9 290 card series. I game moderately but prefer to have stellar graphics when I do. That said I also hobby around in 3ds max and maya.
I'm moving from an i5 750 @ 2.67ghz with 4gb of ram and a GEForce GTX 260 Dell XPS.
The system I'm working on would be a 4790k OC'd to about 4.6-8 with air cooling Noctua NH-D14 on an Asus Z97-PRO mobo, 32gb DD3 dual channel 4x 8gb CAS 9 and I was considering the 290 card in either single or crossfire. All wrapped up in a Chaser MK-I.
Thoughts?
Uleepera
September 20, 2014 7:44:39 PM
Max also comes with iray which is nvidia only and you can swap the files over to have it work in maya too. But you're fine with either nvidia or amd and there are other 3rd party gpu renderers available. I just use quicksilver as it's really simple. You can try it with your current gpu. Gpu renderers are typically 5-10x faster than a cpu renderer like mental ray.
Uleepera
September 20, 2014 6:25:42 PM
Uleepera
September 20, 2014 5:03:17 PM
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