Quadro FX 1800 vs. i7

[Michi3d]

Hey..
I'm about to preorder VRay 2.0, yes!! My computer is an i7 with the Quadro FX 1800 GPU. You think its worth to make the update? Is GPU so much faster than the CPU-rendering? I tested RT for CPU and must say that it was always too slow, so I mostly still did the "oldfashioned" method: hiding most of the objects and render just the important objects in very low settings..

Thanks a lot,
Michael

[vlado]

The Quadro FX 1800 card is unfortunately quite weak (only 48 CUDA cores compared to, for example, 480 CUDA cores for GeForce 480), so I'm not sure if it will really provide any better performance.

Best regards,
Vlado

[Alan Iglesias]

Micheal, just to let you know, I have an 3.2 GHz i7960 here with a GTX 460 (336 cores) and when using it RT/GPU is just under 5 times faster than RT/CPU.

Pretty good speed up for very little cost...

-Alan