Hey folks. I was thinking about using octane as an alternative renderer for production since it seems to deliver nice Images. I'm on a quadro 4000 which performs quite poorly in max. Does anyone have experience with this card running octane? I'm still getting a new graphic board, so with octane in mind, what's my best choice?
I saw the FAQ said Geforce GTX470 or GTX 480, but is there any specific cards that's above the rest?
Will these two cards be able to run octane together properly? Have had some serious viewport lag in max so far and the quadro card didn't like any of the drivers in max.
If anyone has any input on this, I would appreciate it.
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octane on quadro 4000
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The Quadro 4000 is one of the better workstation cards and ought to be giving decent performance for Max so perhaps there is some settings issue there. I doubt that any Geforce will be better since Nvidia cripple them in comparison for pro apps..
The Quadro won't be a very powerful card for gpu rendering though with 256 cores in a conservatively clocked card.
There will be lag using it on its own to run both the display and rendering.
You could add a cheaper Quadro like a 600 for the display while Octane runs on the 4000 although it might still be too slow overall for your purposes, depends what you want to do or how seriously you want to get into rendering. This sort of combo would give the least driver problems and generally improve things for the least cost.
The 4xx series is surpassed for Octane performance by the 5xx series. I would expect a GTS450 to be roughly the same as the 4000 when it comes to rendering. The 470 and 480 ran quite hot and noisy although they would give your rendering a reasonable boost if that was all that was available.
If you can find a GTX 580 thats pretty decent card for Octane and much better value than another Quadro for similar results. Most likely that would boost rendering speeds by about 3x over your present experience. Some people do have issues getting Quadro and Geforce drivers working together however, or using a modded Quadro driver to run both. What you do depends too on what extra power supply capacity you have and the spacing and number of your pcie slots.
There are some posts in the forum regarding the use of Quadro and Geforce together. Not sure how many are availible outside of the licensed customer area though. I think there is at least one post I did answering someones questions so try a search.
Hope that helps you. If not feel free to ask again.
The Quadro won't be a very powerful card for gpu rendering though with 256 cores in a conservatively clocked card.
There will be lag using it on its own to run both the display and rendering.
You could add a cheaper Quadro like a 600 for the display while Octane runs on the 4000 although it might still be too slow overall for your purposes, depends what you want to do or how seriously you want to get into rendering. This sort of combo would give the least driver problems and generally improve things for the least cost.
The 4xx series is surpassed for Octane performance by the 5xx series. I would expect a GTS450 to be roughly the same as the 4000 when it comes to rendering. The 470 and 480 ran quite hot and noisy although they would give your rendering a reasonable boost if that was all that was available.
If you can find a GTX 580 thats pretty decent card for Octane and much better value than another Quadro for similar results. Most likely that would boost rendering speeds by about 3x over your present experience. Some people do have issues getting Quadro and Geforce drivers working together however, or using a modded Quadro driver to run both. What you do depends too on what extra power supply capacity you have and the spacing and number of your pcie slots.
There are some posts in the forum regarding the use of Quadro and Geforce together. Not sure how many are availible outside of the licensed customer area though. I think there is at least one post I did answering someones questions so try a search.
Hope that helps you. If not feel free to ask again.
i7-3820 @4.3Ghz | 24gb | Win7pro-64
GTS 250 display + 2 x GTX 780 cuda| driver 331.65
Octane v1.55
GTS 250 display + 2 x GTX 780 cuda| driver 331.65
Octane v1.55
I had it two years, the card is ok (Blender, 3ds max, iray, Vray, Octane, Ubuntu and Win7). But when I render on it was getting awfully loud. So loud that I just sold. It is better to buy another, I bought 680 (in comparison two times faster and 100% quieter)
I too am very satisfied. However it used to heat up to 90 degrees when rendering and it was rather slow for the reason mentioned above. Took off the housing and installed watercooling, now it doesn't go over 40 degrees.
Then bought 580's for rendering and used the Quadro with nvidia's performance drivers for autodesk software for the display. Highest was 15 million poly's in a scene with good viewport performance in maya.
So I can definitely recommend, but only for the display.
Then bought 580's for rendering and used the Quadro with nvidia's performance drivers for autodesk software for the display. Highest was 15 million poly's in a scene with good viewport performance in maya.
So I can definitely recommend, but only for the display.
Rampage III Extreme - 990x - 24GB - Quadro 4000 (display), triple GTX 580 (Octane) - CPU & GPU's cooled with Antec 620's - DIY 15" Cintiq
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I'm testing octane render for max demo with quadro 4000. I tested an interior scene which has 1.600.000 polygons and created for vray before. Octane can convert materials of %90 with success. But rendering speed is very low with quadro 4000. 800x600 render with path tracing method takes 8 hours and there are a lot of noise.
in fact I must optimize scene for octane render for best results but I guess quadro cards are not for gpu rendering.
in fact I must optimize scene for octane render for best results but I guess quadro cards are not for gpu rendering.