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Title: 3dsmax gets Nvidia GPU assisted rendering horsepower!?
Post by: Omniscaper on June 09, 2006, 06:21:08 am

Came across this today and it may be of interest to modders using 3dsmax http://www.nvidia.com/page/gelato.html

I've yet to do a comparative benchmark, but this looks promising. Has any 3dsmax users have experience using this?

Title: Re: 3dsmax gets Nvidia GPU assisted rendering horsepower!?
Post by: Colonol Dekker on June 09, 2006, 06:23:34 am

Not yet, but now youve pointed it out, im gonna use my little bros SLI system to try it on R4.2

Title: Re: 3dsmax gets Nvidia GPU assisted rendering horsepower!?
Post by: Turambar on June 09, 2006, 08:17:00 am

quit rubbing my x600 mobile in my face....
lol

Title: Re: 3dsmax gets Nvidia GPU assisted rendering horsepower!?
Post by: pecenipicek on June 09, 2006, 08:51:42 am

downloading it. looks interesting, even tho i'm afraid of it as i got an old fx5700 :p

Title: Re: 3dsmax gets Nvidia GPU assisted rendering horsepower!?
Post by: Taristin on June 09, 2006, 09:38:04 pm

*curses his intel chipset on the laptop and the r9600xt in his desktop*
*wonders if there's a comparable ATi thing*

Title: Re: 3dsmax gets Nvidia GPU assisted rendering horsepower!?
Post by: Scooby_Doo on June 09, 2006, 09:59:47 pm

hahaha

*curses my Geforce 2* can't even get updated drivers anymore LOL

Title: Re: 3dsmax gets Nvidia GPU assisted rendering horsepower!?
Post by: pecenipicek on June 10, 2006, 07:29:42 am

*curses 3dsmax for not working*

Title: Re: 3dsmax gets Nvidia GPU assisted rendering horsepower!?
Post by: Fury on June 12, 2006, 06:24:41 am

Hmh.. the upcoming G80 is supposedly the first dual-core GPU, I wonder what kind of horsepower it would add to rendering...

Title: Re: 3dsmax gets Nvidia GPU assisted rendering horsepower!?
Post by: Turambar on June 12, 2006, 07:05:49 am

probably, approximately a ****load
that's just an estimation

Title: Re: 3dsmax gets Nvidia GPU assisted rendering horsepower!?
Post by: Flipside on June 12, 2006, 09:00:18 am

Yup... 3 weeks after I buy an ATI. Just my luck :/

Title: Re: 3dsmax gets Nvidia GPU assisted rendering horsepower!?
Post by: pecenipicek on June 12, 2006, 09:52:29 am

did anyone test this? until i repair my installation of 3dsmax i cant do ****.

Title: Re: 3dsmax gets Nvidia GPU assisted rendering horsepower!?
Post by: Colonol Dekker on June 12, 2006, 10:38:41 am

Nope not yet, Waiting on a new Rig,

Title: Re: 3dsmax gets Nvidia GPU assisted rendering horsepower!?
Post by: pecenipicek on June 19, 2006, 05:41:50 pm

anyone?

Title: Re: 3dsmax gets Nvidia GPU assisted rendering horsepower!?
Post by: Ace Pace on June 20, 2006, 03:53:43 pm

Quote from: Fury on June 12, 2006, 06:24:41 am

Hmh.. the upcoming G80 is supposedly the first dual-core GPU, I wonder what kind of horsepower it would add to rendering...

*throws in a correction*

Modern GPUs are already multicore as we define the term as independently working peices of sillicone, each Pixel shader/vertex shader is very much it's own core embedded and connected to the rest.
I havn't heard much on the G80, but I doubt it will actully be two cores on the same die. It'd be insanely wasteful of nVidia.