Best GPU for the job.

[thegamezbeplayed]

nVidia and AMD graphic cards both have their strengths and weaknesses. When it comes to certain applications like game engines 3d modelling, animation, and rendering software - not a whole lot of data can be found on the internet, ( i have been looking for a long time and still haven't found much). I was wondering what the community here can share from their experiences, as well as any data/benchmarks they can find, on using AMD Radeon and nVidia Geforce graphic cards for such applications.

I am curious about these applications specifically-

Adobe Flash

PhotoShop

3ds Max

Maya

UDK

Unity Engine

Blender

[ionbasa]

For Maya: http://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/AutoDesk-Maya-2013-GPU-Acceleration-166

looks Like FirePro Wins hand down

Photoshop: http://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Adobe-Photoshop-CS6-GPU-Acceleration-161

​My conclusion: Go for AMD FirePro if you have the cash, but note it will not work with Radeon cards installed, so no Firepro+Radeon unfortunatly.

Next Radeon 7970 maybe crossfire would give you a nice boost,

Lastly the nVidia lineup.

[Dragon_Cannon]

If you are doing rendering work and no gaming on the system then you want to look at either a FirePro from AMD or a Quadro for nvidia.

The problem with the graphs provided is that these are not the newest cards out either. So if money is not the issue then you are gonna want the fastest card available.

One question that I have is that are you designing games? The applications listed there all together tell me that you are making a game of some description.

[killerx525]

That graph is the latest as the W9000 came out some time last year and the W9000 is pretty much close to the performance of a Quadro 6000.

[thegamezbeplayed]

I am in school for game design. It is mostly programming but I use the applications listed to make art and games. My current PC i am using is starting to be unable to handle some of the things I need it to do. Like having UDK open while Flash or Blender is open. UDK always crashes for me once and a while even if it running alone. I only have 4gb. Also building in UDK takes forever as I am using a Athlon quad core.

I have a year and a half left in school and if I wanna do my best work I need a new system.

The budget is 1500-1700$. And i already decided on the 3770k. Firepro and Quadro are not a possibility for now. But once I graduate those will be my first upgrades once I have the cash. I will also be playing games but I didnt think mentioning that would matter considering my choices are between Radeon and Geforce.

[Dragon_Cannon]

Ge the fastest card that you can for your money as it will make rendering that much faster.

[ionbasa]

The fastest card for the price range you listed is definitely going to be the Radeon 7970. If you look at the benchmarks it crushes the GTX 680 in MAYA. The 7970 is also going to let you play games at 1080p flawlessly. Also make sure you get a 6Gb card if your going to be intense rendering.

[thegamezbeplayed]

I do like AMD alot because of they have more memory, they are also faster, by the time i have enough money I think the 8xxx series will be out. Hopefully everything goes well and they are beast so i can get the 8970. I'm willing to wait for that. Although they will probably bring out the 8970 first.

[crispy345]

Wait for the new 8970, AMD will probably make it superb with lots of memory onboard.

[cheti]

A radeon beats geforce when it comes to the jobs youre looking for.

Id suggest as Crispy345 aswell, wait for the new series.

Best wishes

- cheti

[SammichThyme]

From what I've heard (contrary to cheti) is that Nvidia CUDA makes a big difference in CS6. I'd get the best Nvidia card you can afford. You probably don't even need workstation graphics. This is my unbiased opinion. (A radeon card would be better for gaming...)

[Blake]

the entire adobe CS suite can be accelerated by CUDA, but to be honest it shouldn't make too much opf a difference unless your running premiere.

[Dragon_Cannon]

the entire adobe CS suite can be accelerated by CUDA' date=' but to be honest it shouldn't make too much opf a difference unless your running premiere.[/quote']

It wont be accelerated much or at all unless you are doing something that demands the horse power.

[thegamezbeplayed]

adobe will probably only see about 10% usage compared to everything else. The 3d modeling applications will probably be the most that i use.

[BluenosedMarsh]

Surprised to see the 7870 so high on those charts. Makes me proud.

[thegamezbeplayed]

Im probably leaning towards the Radeon solution. Just have to wait now to see how the next series is.

[Pugman]

I have the ati firepro v7800 2gig ,for rendering and all 3d work its perfect.I have also in another pc im building

the asus HD 7970 platinum matrix awsome card i ran a benchmark with it and it beat 2 nvidea 660ti on its own

Cool stuff

[thegamezbeplayed]

I have the ati firepro v7800 2gig ,for rendering and all 3d work its perfect.I have also in another pc im building

the asus HD 7970 platinum matrix awsome card i ran a benchmark with it and it beat 2 nvidea 660ti on its own

Cool stuff

what did you benchmark?

[Pugman]

I have the ati firepro v7800 2gig ,for rendering and all 3d work its perfect.I have also in another pc im building

the asus HD 7970 platinum matrix awsome card i ran a benchmark with it and it beat 2 nvidea 660ti on its own

Cool stuff

Hd 7970 matrix with heaven and alien veris preditor

[amintha1992]

it is said that ADOBE CS is optimized to be used with a nVidia's CUDA tech. but the thing is that even the AMD cards have the tech to accelerate these programs. its called OpenCL. so its all about your preference.

adobe supports both nVidia and AMD GPUS and that is a fact.

as for benchmarks they dont mean a thing unless you are going to be using the same exact system.

so with opinions and experiences from other people not hard set benchmarks. because most of the time benchmarks do not represent the real world applications.