This demo was presented by Chaos Group on August 6, 2009 at the SIGGRAPH 2009 Chaos Group User Event. During the event the first public showing of their GPU rendering tests were presented to a packed house. This video showcases the recently released V-Ray RT using an NVIDIA GeForce 285 GPU. While this GPU version is not a shipping product yet, already this technology demo features rendering speeds and quality surpassing all of the current GPU rendering applications that I’ve seen to date. Several high level industry representatives in attendance commented that this demo was the highlight of SIGGRAPH 2009.
it keeps sticking. everything else im doing on the internet is running smoothly but that video wont even get past 9 seconds so it wont even matter if its RT. i cant view the video in RT lol
hehe wanted to see how my tower was used
Wow, it blew the CPU RT away. I love the fact that one can move around inside the window. Would be great to see how it updates material and lighting changes. It seems to be a stand alone version, I wonder if it can be used on another pc that does not have Max installed. Great work, looks awesome!
So will you be able to add more video cards to your PC to increase speed as well as use “distributed rendering” across a network? I wonder how the Caustics card will affect speed?
I believe that it’s the same basic core as the current shipping CPU version. I imagine once this is further developed V-Ray RT will support GPU and/or CPU. Someone from Chaos Group would have to comment further here.
The Caustics card requires the application to support the caustics card through CausticGL. I would hazard a guess that Chaos won’t provide that support given they can already beat it with a $300 GPU.
