![]() This is a hole lot different than rendering in a window. The main drawback of the usual gaming cards are that they support OPENGL rendertin ONLY IN FULL SCREEN MODE. I think you are quite wrong in you assumptions. I have no experience with the NVIDIA cards.īTW the 9600, 128MB with OpenGl in 3D is outstanding. The price difference, in the ATI cards, is not worth it. All very quick but annoying nevertheless. As a matter of fact, working in 2D when panning, the FireGL leaves behind some "streaking garbage" and the screen needs to be rebuilt. I find no significant(perceived not measured) difference in both 3D or 2D between the FireGl and the ATI 9600. I delayed this post because I was in the process of installing some ATI Radeon(9600) in new desktop units.Īt the same time we have a Dell Workstation with a FireGl working for quite some time. I am most interested in overall 2D performance, not just 3d performance.Ĭould the extra money these cards require be better used to upgrade other PC components instead? I hope this helps in you decision of what card to choose.ĭoes anyone know how much performance benefit ArchiCad 8 can achieve when a workstation class graphics card is used (like the ATI FireGL or NVIDIA Quadro series) versus the desktop class cards (like ATI Radeon or NVIDIA Geforce series)? Ok may be it's a different story if Pro-E,Inventor and Solid Works come into the discussion, but again I don't use these programs there fore I don't need the workstaion graphics card.Īs I also said ArchiCAD loves my new card. I was in love with that card(well not really ) but it was a great card.Īs Chad pointed out the workstaion graphics cards are becoming less appealing simply because they cost too much. To be honest with you the last workstaion graphics card I used was a Wildcat 4110 with 16MB RAM Because most, if not all, of the middle to highend gamming cards are optimised for openGL. If you check out Chad's post what he is saying is exactly right. Would the lack of such a driver for ArchiCad eliminate the benefits of using these cards? I have just recently upgraded to a FX5900 with 250MB RAM and it ROCKS.Īre you saying that the higher end gaming cards like the Geforce or Radeons will perform better that the more expensive and more hardware accelerated cards like the Quadros? Or are you saying that there is not enough difference to warrant the extra cost?ĭoes the benefits of workstation class cards only become apparent when specialized drivers for the individual programs are used? I know these types of cards do have special driver software written for a program (Pro-E, Inventor, Autocad, etc.) to tweak the performance. I had a Geforce TI4800 SE with 128 MB RAM. ![]() ![]() I have found that the best cards for ArchiCAD are the middle to top end gamming cards.
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