Graphics card for 3D rendering

[Nkjha]

I use 3ds max, maya, zbrush, after effects and premier pro.friends suggestions -Nvidia 750TI and Nvidia quadro k600. I want to know which graphics card among Asus,Gigabyte or Nvidia supports these softwares better. Please help. Also provide reason why that is better.
My System Cnfg is
Processor - Intel i7-4770
Ram - 8Gb
SMPS - VS550
MotherBoard-Gigabyte H87M-D3H

 

[BigBadBeef]

You've got AMD FirePro and its nVidia equivalents. They are all up for thousands of bucks. These are the only cards that were build with 3D rendering in mind.

Just buy the best card with the money you have.

 

[Jdogz427]

Amd has their fire pro series W3000 or something like that, nvidia has their Quaddro or titan series, all of these are excellent for 3d rendering. you just have to take your pick on which is worth the hefty investment.

 

[BigBadBeef]

"hefty" is pretty much an understatement, as you can almost get a 4k gaming rig for the price of just one.

 

[rmpumper]

No point in getting professional GPUs for max and other software you are using as both max and zbrush are using directx (quadro are optimised for opengl) and CPU is more important for video editing software.

Had a laptop with quadro fx3600M and max viewport ran worse than with radeon x1600 (4x weaker gaming performance and not made for pro work) laptop GPU.

In fact, disabling Windows Aero interface while working with max will give bigger viewport performace bump than a low-mid range quadro GPU.

 

[vegettonox]

I would use a quadro card primarily because of maya and 3ds max lack of support for most consumer cards. Premiere Pro and adobe software supports consumer cards really well these days, my dual 580's murder anything I render on premiere but again since you are using both a quadro would be your ideal choice. I recommend you look through this list and find the one you can best afford with the best specifications. http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/syscert?siteID=123112&id=18844534&results=1&stype=graphic&product_group=6&release=2015&os=8192&manuf=all&opt=1

I still would go for the consumer card as they don't cost your first born and it depends on what you really use more. If you spend most of your time in premiere and after affects then get a consumer card from this list. http://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-pro/system-requirements.html#Adobe%20Premiere%20Pro%20CC%20%282014%29%20system%20requirements%20and%20language%20versions

 

[Jdogz427]

"hefty" is pretty much an understatement, as you can almost get a 4k gaming rig for the price of just one.

i guess hefty could be considered an understatement to some, but to me hefty to me means several thousand,

 

[HEXiT]

if your serious about rendering

the gtx titan would be the best option as it supports the full 64bit float like a quadro.
gaming cards tend to support 32bit float only.
3ds max ship with default nvidia render packaged to enable gpu render support

if your not so serious and gtx 750+ up to your budget would be better than pretty much any quadro for the same money.

 

[Eximo]

K600 is the lowest model from Nvidia this generation, but is surprisingly powerful for its cost. The non-crippled double precision math and support from companies like Autodesk (3DS MAX) make a huge difference in performance. K2000 if you can afford it would be a lot better, more memory and performance.

750Ti is intended for the consumer and gaming/media consumption. It will help your applications in live rendering, during the design part, but won't be anywhere near as fast as the K600 when doing batch rendering jobs.

Other options would be some higher end consumer cards. GTX Titan are about $1000 if you can still find them.
GTX580 is an older high power card that isn't as crippled in doing render jobs as the later geforce cards.

I assume the higher models would be out of your budget.

K2000 ~$360
K2200 ~$420
K4000 ~$700
K4200 ~$800
K5000 ~$2500
K6000 ~$4300
Tesla K20 ~$2800
Tesla K40 ~$4000

 

[BigBadBeef]

OP, what is your decision?

 

[Free2play_noobs]

Look It would be better to build a Render farm. & Most of the renderings are CPU based. The only GPU based renders are Nvidia heavy. But still if you want to prefer it to do on GPU then Nvidia K20 tesla + Quadro K6000 is the ideal solution.