Recent content by markthema3

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    Buying a GPU for 3D rendering, recommendations?

    It seems that most commercial renderers prefer cuda, and I haven't seen any benchmarks for LuxRender. I was under the impression that AMD's compiler had issues with large kernels. OpenCL currently works on nVidia cards in Cycles, but they still don't have working AMD GPU support thanks to the...
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    Cryptocoin Mining?

    Just a tip, GPU bit coin mining is a losing venture. Mine litecoins if you want to see any real income.
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    Buying a GPU for 3D rendering, recommendations?

    I know Cycles, VRay, Mental Ray, iray, Indigo, LuxRender, pretty much everything I'm looking at support GPU ray tracing and rendering. I'm having a hard time finding information on features of these GPU raytracers and what features are supported on which Compute models. Currently not very...
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    Buying a GPU for 3D rendering, recommendations?

    Much to my displeasure, it seems that I cannot have my litecoin miner and my rendering on the same brand of GPU, as AMD seems miles ahead for mining but unworkable and broken for rendering. As such, I'm looking to buy an nVidia GPU for my 3d rendering tasks. I'm looking at either a GTX 580 or a...