VrayRT- GPU - Nvidia VS ATI - Geforce Vs Quadro / Ati etc

[Dariusz Makowski (Dadal)]

Heya

I am just about to get new graphics card for my workstation(currently 2x nehelem xeon/24gb ram/2tb raid 0(4x) hdd) and more) once Nvidia release new series of graphic cards. I am wondering if some one could clean out something for me...

Will VrayRT work on ATI/Nvidia cards once its supported or only Nvidia because of CUDA?
Will it work better on top end model of Geforce ver (480/495gtx) or on Quadro model ?
Same for ati, will it work on ATI, and which one better?

Thanx for help and cya around.

btw. if its possible to know, do we have to pay for update? (plox say no o.o, or make it kinda cheap :P )

[percydaman]

my personal opinion is stay away from those workstation graphics cards. They're too damn expensive, frequently the drivers are crap, and I find it takes alot of cooperation between the hardware company and the software company to make them really useful. Which seems to not happen enough.

[Dariusz Makowski (Dadal)]

Hey percydaman I have that same opinion ! They are disaster BUT not for view ports from what I notice. They run very fast when it comes to view port previews. Also about DRIVERS, you know that if u ''hack'' Quadro driver to work on GFX card u will have more FPS in view ports? :O Try google it Quadro drivers for Geforce or something like that I cant remember the exact link :s

[timdog]

Most cards is unmoddable nowadays.
Nvidia for example laser cut some wire on the card which ruins the quadro functions.
Ive heard that the Fermi version for gaming will follow the same destiny and theyll disable the higher floating point precision whatever that means for software rendering.

[percydaman]

yeah like timdog said, its all but impossible to softmod the latest cards these days. You can still do it, but it requires some hardware modding, ie soldering wires to bridge cut traces etc.