GPU Support

[tsquared08]

How many GPUs does Vantage support at one time? Meaning if I have a GPU server with 10 graphics cards in it will it use all 10 cards when producing an animation? Or is there a limit on the number of graphics cards Vantage supports?

[Phillip Miller]

Vantage currently can use up to 2 GPUs.

Kind regards,

- Phil

[tsquared08]

Will it support more than two in the future?

[Phillip Miller]

We are looking at it. We want to make sure the scalability is good first.

[vladimir.nedev]

How many GPUs does Vantage support at one time? Meaning if I have a GPU server with 10 graphics cards in it will it use all 10 cards when producing an animation? Or is there a limit on the number of graphics cards Vantage supports?

You can start 5 or 10 copies of Vantage and have each render a different frame range on different GPUs.
You might need a lot of CPU RAM to do this however.

Greetings,
Vladimir Nedev

[Wohnraumdesign]

How do I define the startexe that the right gpu is used?

[vishwanath_mani]

We need a little help here.
We are planning to introduce RTX A6000 Gpu in our pipeline.
Wanted to ask if this is fully supported by vantage and it can use its 48GB ram.?
Thank You

[Alexander.Atanasov]

Hi Wohnraumdesign

You can do one of the following:

1. Using desktop shortcuts:
   1. Create shortcuts on the desktop of the vantage.exe and name them appropriately: https://drive.google.com/uc?id=1xi-F...J27HGyMF0R5dea
   2. Add in their properties at the end of Target "-d #" where # is the appropriate GPU id: https://drive.google.com/uc?id=1z6s3...x7wD4Yd-bEJnxF . You can find which GPU corresponds to which id from the Vantage log: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oe6...w?usp=drivesdk
   3. Afterwards you can start a copy of Vantage from each shortcut running on a different GPU.
2. Using command line:
   1. Open Vantage from a command line in "C:\Program Files\Chaos Group\Vantage" with the arguments

      vantage_console.exe -d=#

      where # is the appropriate GPU id and Vantage will start set to used that GPU. You can create .bat file for easier setup. You can find more about the available command arguments here: https://docs.chaos.com/display/LAV/C...d+Line+Options

Hi vishwanath_mani

Vantage does support RTX A6000 and can utilize all available memory from it. If you look at the Vantage log screenshot from above you can see that there are 2 x RTX A6000 in that machine and Vantage will use them both for rendering but will not combine their VRAM.

Best regards,
Alexander