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Affordable POWER?

Posted: Fri Jun 28, 2013 11:20 am
by joaomourao
http://www.cgarchitect.com/news/viewfra ... ark-with-o
http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/high_end_gpus.html

Sorry guys for messing around with this oldie... but where do we stand for GPU?
NL team, are we going somewhere with this GPU wishing? In the end we just want affordable power...
Cheers!

Re: Affordable POWER?

Posted: Sat Jun 29, 2013 12:28 pm
by photomg1
Hope we get some idea on direction sooner rather than later .Looking to invest in a render node or two in the next 6 months . Wouldn't like to blow my budget on cpu's if I would have been better off going for
more powerful gpu's.

Re: Affordable POWER?

Posted: Mon Jul 01, 2013 2:55 pm
by hatts
NL has addressed this numerous times: they do not intend to develop for GPU.

Re: Affordable POWER?

Posted: Mon Jul 01, 2013 6:48 pm
by photomg1
That's what I figured Hatts . I did notice though that real flow is now making use of the gpu for a large speed up in certain simulations . So its not as if nextlimit is adverse anymore to using the gpu for speed up.
To be honest it doesn't really bother me either way . Just want to make sure I make the right investment, as after the new machine/machines i buy I at least want to get a good couple of years out of them.

option 1 good cpu plus a couple of titan cards

option 2 good cpu on 2 machines with cheaper cards (in comparison to a titan anyway)

Re: Affordable POWER?

Posted: Mon Jul 01, 2013 6:58 pm
by Fernando Tella
If I'm not wrong I think they said it was not the time yet. That was some time ago.

Re: Affordable POWER?

Posted: Tue Jul 02, 2013 2:25 am
by gadzooks
Who can afford a Titan card! Not I said the little Pig! :)