The first GTX-580´s with 3 Gb memory are out. F.i. Point of view makes two versions. Mildly and heavily overclocked. Would never overclock to the extreme. About 500E.

Is it correct that 3Gb is the maximum per GPU for Octane?

Another solution would be to buy a GT120 only for display and use the 8800 for octane.
It seams that this card is working perfectly also on Mac Pro 2008.
http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC002ZM/A

ciao beppe

But an 8800 is extremely slow compared to GTX460/70/80. I have no Mac as I like ...

Siince a driver update some time ago Nvidia doesn´t want to function if it sees ATI cards. This to ´guarantee´ stability but no doubt with large support from the marketing dept.

Max.

Thanks a lot. I was convinced it couldn´t be true but some people kept repeating it.

Hi,

I read somewhere that the 4xx series was deliberately crippled so that DP calculations run at 1/5 the speed of single precision floats, while the Fermi architecture can manage 1:2 DP vs SP.

I never noticed this before but when you search for it there are several sites which indeed mention it ...

Heel leuk gedaan, slechts een puntje van kritiek. Het is jammer dat het eindbeeld niet wat langer blijft staan.

In english. Very nice video, just one thing could be improved: the final image should be in view for a few seconds more.

BTW: is there an English version of it? I would like to show it ...

The lowest European price I have seen is for the Palit GTX 460 Sonic 2GB (2048MB GDDR5) at 236E including 19% VAT.

So if you use it professionally it will cost you just below 200E.

If you compare that to even the cheapest i7 the render performance increase is extreme with the combination of Octane ...

Hi Radiance,

I completely believe you as you will know :)

However there seems some contradictions in the two statements from you.

"SSS / volumetrics is not planned for our v1.0, and will be for the 2.0 version coming later towards the end of this year."

"2.0 is still far off"

You understand my ...

check the gallery ;)

we're working round the clock on 2.3 v5 ;)

Radiance

How can I see which images in the gallery are made with the new beta?

Max

none of them are, i need to do my monthly update soon (i've been away a while)
check the gallery and WIP forums here for renders with the new 2 ...

Hey,

Arealights are coming in the next version, beta 2.3.
SSS / volumetrics is not planned for our v1.0, and will be for the 2.0 version coming later towards the end of this year.

Radiance

So if we buy into the current beta, which is already the release of 1.xx (as I understood from another ...