Justin Marin

Is there a good way for me to benchmark the performance of Houdini? I found an old thread here: http://www.sidefx.com/index.php?option=com_forum&Itemid=172&page=viewtopic&p=98351&sid=d6ca7d7d9e7aa006ffeb9472a6e10699 [sidefx.com] but is it still relevant?

twod
There's a good comparison of the latest consumer cards and workstation cards here:

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/best-workstation-graphics-card,3493.html [tomshardware.com]

No Houdini benches, but it does illustrate that in some cases, consumer gaming cards are well behind their workstation brethren. Oddly, consumer cards are generally better or on-par with workstation cards for compute, though.

Thanks, that was a helpful read. I wonder if comparisons like that will also help to drive Nvidia and AMD to really push development on workstation cards more to justify their cost over their gaming counterparts.

edward
Offhand, I'm not sure if there's any situation where Houdini is faster on Windows. If you want speed, use Houdini on Linux.

Thanks, that's what I figured since most software with a native Linux version seem to be faster than their Windows counterpart, but figured I'd ask anyone with experience before spending the time to set it up.