Hi guys…

I am not much a hardware guy, so i would like to hear from some more

experienced houdini users, what must i consider when buying a new video card…

what matters?

bits or memory?

is memory of video card used for something in houdini?

I am planning to buy a GTS250 Nvidia…

is that good for houdini?


thanx for any info and tips guys!

again!!! thankfully


Sty

Please take a look at our system requirements over here:
http://www.sidefx.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=415&Itemid=269 [sidefx.com]

I am afraid GTS250 is not a workstation quality graphics card…

and 9400 !!do you think that will be good for houdini ?

It's true the GTS250 is not a workstation graphics card but it should be able to run Houdini without much issues.

I have a Geforce 7600 Go in my laptop and no major issues.

Cheers!
steven

Depends what you want really. I game a lot so I chose the gaming card 8800GTS over a Quadro card. If I didnt game, I would have gone Quadro all the way. Houdini still performs superb even on a gaming card. Quadro's are more suited to openGL though.

I left ATI choking in the dust after my Radeon 9600 card melted (still stands as my most reliable card ever, shame it had to get old..). I made the switch to Nvidia, and was for the better.

but i still didnt got my answers..what is better memory or bits in a video card?

i really have a very weak video card at the moment ATI radeon X300 (just 128mb of memory) and runs houdini without probs, so i thought a nvidia recent card would do the job much more efficiently

i didnt plann a quadro card for now, its much more than i can acquire now!

maybe will a gts or gt series!

WONDERING IF THEY RUN IN houdini (linux) cause i really wanna try apprentice on linux

thanx again

Hey man ,
from my perspective you should pay attention to your cpu and ram rather than your 3d acceleration card a “good” video card simply lets you fly throu
with ease in the vieport when you have a lot of geometry with a lot of textures .Ati for me was always working better from a nVidia , Quadro from the other hand its on an other level (and an other cost ) and a 3d labs card
would be even better .(with those glind gpu's mmmmmm)
Which ever card you buy will run just fine what i do is buy a good cpu and lots of ram and a good chipset in my mother board and buy a 150$ video card like every 4-6 months .
nVidia has a much much much better support for linux than ati ,ati just recend started to pay attention to those who use linux
I think in the end the rule is one the more expensive the better ,after that is just how much you can afford.
Hope that helped

Slightly off-topic but did you guys see this rendering demo from Vray at Siggraph. Exciting times! GPU rendering is beginning to look hardcore.

http://www.cgarchitect.com/news/SIGGRAPH-2009-CHAOS-GROUP-GPU.shtml [cgarchitect.com] 8)

thanx a lot firebblade

that what i was thinking and i already got the nvidia card and everything in here is running smootthhh

I use quadro 580. Its fine and I happy.
Check this:

http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/workstation-graphics-charts/SPECapc-3DS-Max-9-Hardware-Shaders,118.html [tomshardware.com]