mac pro and nvidia 285 for mac card

[dot_bat]

I will be getting the nvidia 285 card for mac for my mac pro, and m wondering anyone have any experience with this set up with octane? good bad problems? thanks in advance

[radiance]

that should work just fine, it's a really good card for octane.

Radiance

[Valentin]

I'm looking at something similar for my 8-core MacPro.

I'd be using with Blender, and I was wondering if anyone has found what kind of render speed increase I might see vs. using Blender Internal?

I know it depends a lot on the settings used with each renderer, but would be helpful to know what people are finding with Octane vs. Blender Internal. I'd be happy to upload an example .blend file if anyone has a setup to try it out.

I'm doing mostly 3D motion graphic renders of abstract animations, with materials and lighting setup to be very roughly "photo-realistic" - i.e. Shiny, reflective objects with cool motion, HDRI ... without getting too into the tweaky details of the more advanced rendering techniques I'm really just looking for a much faster way to render the animations.

Also, does anyone have specifics (tutorial or reasonably detailed recipe) for doing an animation using Blender with Octane? I think I read elsewhere on this forum that it is possible with the current Octane beta.

Thanks!!

Valentin
artist, producer, ninja

[radiance]

the upcoming 2.1 release (coming this week) will support basic animation.
The current beta2 does'nt yet.

The speed depends on your GPU.
A GTX200 series card will be about 15x as fast, a new GTX400 up to 30-50x depending on various factors.

Radiance

[YoonKyung]

the upcoming 2.1 release (coming this week) will support basic animation.
The current beta2 does'nt yet.

The speed depends on your GPU.
A GTX200 series card will be about 15x as fast, a new GTX400 up to 30-50x depending on various factors.

Radiance

15x, 30-50x ...

[pixym]

YoonKyung, sorry to be out of topic but, Would you mind to do this bench here : http://www.refractivesoftware.com/forum ... =21&t=1164

[radiance]

YoonKyung, sorry to be out of topic but, Would you mind to do this bench here : http://www.refractivesoftware.com/forum ... =21&t=1164

it would'nt make much sense as beta2 only supports one of his four gpus...

Radiance

[pixym]

I only would like to know the gain between one and several gpus…
btw: he has 8 gpu not 4

[radiance]

I only would like to know the gain between one and several gpus…
btw: he has 8 gpu not 4

yeah 4 double ones

Radiance

[YoonKyung]

I will do it, when beta2.1 will be available.. I ordered 4 GTX480s, too.. This week will be exciting..