Question about TESLA & XEON PHI

[flix_ujin]

Hi, simple question. How does TESLA  or Xeon Phi works in term of 3D rendering? Does it work like an additional CPU coupled with crazy amount of cores?

I'm using Autodesk Maya (Vray&Arnold for rendering) and Houdini for effects simulation. Does it really worth? My budget is no more than $3500

[spartaman64]

i would guess that a tesla works like a gpu and a phi works like a cpu

[Electronics Wizardy]

Not for the programs your using.

 

-The tesla acts like anouther gpu that a monitor can't be connected to. Its just a cuda device

 

-A xeon phi is its own system that you can ssh into and runs linux. I can't do everything a normal cpu can do as its missing some extensions.

[Electronics Wizardy]

1 minute ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Not for the programs your using.

 

-The tesla acts like anouther gpu that a monitor can't be connected to. Its just a cuda device

 

-A xeon phi is its own system that you can ssh into and runs linux. I can't do everything a normal cpu can do as its missing some extensions.

TLDR: don't buy them

[flix_ujin]

Hi thanks all for the reply. That make sense now, TESLA is really not worth it from the insight you gave me, just a CUDA? even GTX 1080/TITAN X has more CUDA than quadro or tesla combined

[Enderman]

you cant even use a xeon phi in a regular PC

[2FA]

They are better at things like scientific calculations, not actual rendering.

[flix_ujin]

And I heard about NVIDIA MAXIMUS. what is that? how do you enable that feature like the following video :