| James |
Hi i was just wondering does a good graphics card mean the renders will be faster with FF, im just curious as i plan to buy one soon.
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| Posted: December 11, 2007 4:36 am | ||
Crapadilla
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As far as I know, the GPU has absolutely no influence on filter renders (yet!).
Instead, get as many cores as you can to accelerate rendering speed. I'm currently running FF on a Dual QuadCore (so it's eight cores in total), and the machine crunches through most filters blazingly fast. --- Crapadilla says: "Damn you, stupid redundant feature requests!" ;) |
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| Posted: December 11, 2007 7:18 am | ||
StevieJ
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Oh yeah, well I've got a Quadruple QuadCore.....which is sixteen cores in total
 
Seriously, that sounds like a nice "filter-chewing" machine, Dilla...... ....and yeah, the graphics card only effects 3D renders..... Steve
"Buzzards gotta eat...same as worms..." - Clint :) |
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| Posted: December 11, 2007 10:49 am | ||
| Conniekat8 |
...and and... I have about a dozen apple cores here...
and I'm not afraid to use them!!!!  |
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| Posted: December 11, 2007 6:21 pm | ||
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Crapadilla
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I heard those new Fantastuple GazillioCore systems are bad-ass!
 --- Crapadilla says: "Damn you, stupid redundant feature requests!" ;) |
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| Posted: December 12, 2007 6:12 am | ||
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onyXMaster
Posts: 350 |
Confirming -- graphics card performance has next to none influence on rendering performance.
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| Posted: December 12, 2007 1:44 pm | ||
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StevieJ
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Really??? They bill my Matrox as having a 3D graphics accelerator.....
Steve
"Buzzards gotta eat...same as worms..." - Clint :) |
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| Posted: December 12, 2007 2:17 pm | ||
Kraellin
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'3D graphics accelerator' pretty much means shaders and that sort of thing, the new stuff since directx 9.x, i think. the only place, i think it might make a difference, is if you have a pci-e card. that's a completely different pipeline system gpu to cpu (and involves a number of other things), and even then i'm not sure.
If wishes were horses... there'd be a whole lot of horse crap to clean up!
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| Posted: December 12, 2007 2:34 pm | ||
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onyXMaster
Posts: 350 |
"3D graphics accelerator" is a term that can be applied to any card that may assist 3D rendering including ancient cards like NVidia NV1 and 3DFX Voodoo
Yes, properly offloading intensive computations to GPU requires a modern bus (PCI-E opposed to AGP or even worse PCI), but no, Filter Forge does not currently support offloading any computations to the graphics card (except drawing resulting image, but that's what all programs do through the OS to a certain extent). |
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| Posted: December 12, 2007 4:10 pm | ||
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onyXMaster
Posts: 350 |
StevieJ -- I was talking about Filter Forge rendering performance, sorry for not stating that explicity; now that I read my message I see that it's not obvious at all
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| Posted: December 12, 2007 4:11 pm | ||
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