[limbus]

Mac users can always rely on CPU rendering and buy a powerful workstation for that. Oh wait...

[Q2]

Simon says: There's new Apple hardware on the horizon...
Time to spend more money on hardware from the past.

[itsallgoode9]

two question:

does the maxwell GPU for a single scene use all the vram of all the card present in the computer? if I have 2 card, each with 12 gb vram, does maxwell could use 24 gb vram for a single scene?

second: does make sense for a OSX user to upgrade a maxwell 4? i don't think cause OSX users could not have GPU renderer.... that's incredibile!!!

I am quite sure it will still use 12GB no matter how many of them u have in your system.

that is correct. the full scene needs to fit on each card, so you don't get the benefit of combining vram. For GPU rendering, I only am versed in Octane render and I know they have a feature where you can offload textures to your system ram, which can be really useful. i don't know if maxwell planned on adding this or not.

[itsallgoode9]

FWIW, I know Octane had shown demos of their renderer working on ATI hardware. I think (i may be wrong) this feature never got addded into v3 that released recently. I think that was due to the fact that they got a bit over ambitious with all their other stuff they promised for that release and had to delay many things.

So hope may not be lost for you Apple guys.

[christianz]

This discussion Mac vs. PC does not have to be black-and-white anyway. Already now it is possible to mix Mac and PC in a network rendering setup. So you can work on the scene on your preferred OS and then send it away for rendering...

[Q2]

That's how I work! With no problems at all.

Customer is happy - I am happy!

[moreschipaolo]

https://bizon-tech.com/us/bizonbox2-egpu.html/

It will be possible for us to use this type of product directly with Mac OSX and Maxwell 4?

Paolo

[def4d]

does the maxwell GPU for a single scene use all the vram of all the card present in the computer? if I have 2 card, each with 12 gb vram, does maxwell could use 24 gb vram for a single scene?

In that case, Cuda only considers 12Gb total.
The rule is it uses the total amount of RAM of the card who has the less memory, a 8Go card + a 4Go card would only let you use 4Go total.

Also, someone said here Titan were in fact 2x6Go, so it should only use 6Go total, if someone can confirm? In this case a Gtx10x0 would be far more interesting with its 8Go.

I hope rendering with Gpus will let us be able to use the computer, some renderers don't and that's hell.

[itsallgoode9]

I hope rendering with Gpus will let us be able to use the computer, some renderers don't and that's hell.

If Maxwell's GPU is like other companies, you will need to keep on gpu dedicated to run your monitors while have the other two gpus for rendering only.

[def4d]

I only have one GPU, and as an example, Blender Cycles doesn't freeze it while rendering

[Max]

is there going to be more info about Mxw 4? almost september, would be nice to see something before relase actually..

[Aniki]

So will the new engine be hybrid? the news page says, the technology is exactly the same as the classic cpu engine. Do I have to choose between CPU or GPU and the respective others idles? Or can I just run two instances, one on each core simultaneously, if I dont want to waste any capable performance? Is there a difference in setting up materials, lights, scene etc for the GPU engine?
If there aren't any limitations whatsoever, will it matter if I render the same scene in CPU or GPU regarding the features and output?

[Q2]

SEPTEMBER! .....

[devista]

[choo-chee]

well sure thing is that the promo offer was good so I've upgraded 3 days ago...waiting for 4 now.