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karanis wrote:

myislg wrote:Hello!Will the Octane Render using double-precision calculations of the graphics or single-precision calculations?

That was a big question of mine and Thanks to Radiance, enlightened me.

Octane is using single precision calculations so Teslas or Quadro`s are not worth buying to use with Octane.
Buy as many GeForce`s as you can, Octane goes single precision

The thing I don't get is why the 580 is 10% faster then. The 680 has 1536 single single-precision cores, the 580 has 512 double-precision..... so is there a thread detailing what's going on from the dev's POV? If octane is truly single-precision then the 680's cores are only 1/3rd as powerful as the 580's. All I know is that my one 590 preforms at the same DP level as the new Tesla K20.

GR1F1TH wrote:The thing I don't get is why the 580 is 10% faster then. The 680 has 1536 single single-precision cores, the 580 has 512 double-precision..... so is there a thread detailing what's going on from the dev's POV? If octane is truly single-precision then the 680's cores are only 1/3rd as powerful as the 580's. All I know is that my one 590 preforms at the same DP level as the new Tesla K20.

Kepler and Fermi are completely different architectures, Fermi is more compute oriented, while Kepler is targeted towards gamers. You can't compare core numbers from different GPU architectures. The cores and caches in Kepler are also organized differently.

Shit I waited for the beta demo to work on Gtx 670 to buy it, checked in here every 2-3 weeks, but it never did?

Does it work now on Gtx 670 and what is the performance? (Cant try it at work.)

And now the price just doubled without a warning
Not good business practice since there was very little communication on the frontpage. You could atleast made a countdown or something.

I hope you could please run a Christmas intro sale or group buy?
I think there are lots of people who was caught by surprise about this.

Octane (and the demo) does now run on Kepler cards.
The performance is a little less than on the previous generation but more textures are allowed. The Kepler cards generally have more vram as well.
I am sorry you delayed your purchase and missed out the introductory price however Octane was in beta for a bit less than 3 years. There have been Kepler compatible beta builds available for about 3-4 months. I am not sure if that was apparent to you looking on from the outside however you might have asked if you had been checking up on progress every few weeks. I think I mentioned the end of the beta period price was pending in another post I made to the public forum recently but perhaps you don't read everything.
Possibly it was a bit of an abrupt end after so long but the beta price was extra cheap. Even at 199€ for v1.0 its still good value I think and you get a matured program. If you are lucky they might* (although I wouldn't necessarily expect it) do some special deal but you have to realise they have a business to run and bills to pay and 3 years of development is a long time to be getting by on a minimum income. I don't think it was really ever envisaged that it would be so long in beta.
HTH

Octane Render requires Nvidia video driver 301.42 or higher. Please visit this site to download the latest drivers.

lool but not require 301.42 because 296.10WHQL for Win 7 x64 works fine - I got no any problems on GTX 480.

Hi, i am extremely excited for the new 1.0 octane render. If i buy the standalone license for 1.0 version, do i need to buy again for 1.01 and after releases.

Hi longlyf, no, you get updated until Octane 1.99.

Cheers, mib.

Any news on rendering with displacement maps?