Video Cards Importance

[travistlo]

This may have been asked, but I didnt find that thread.

What is the video cards importance to a 3d Program?

Is it only for viewport redraws?

Travis

[RErender]

Yep, until more renderers are like gelato and unload some of the rendering to the gpu.

[Gunnah]

Yep, until more renderers are like gelato and unload some of the rendering to the gpu.

mental ray also has hardware accel, if I'm not mistaken....

G