Tuesday, May 15, 2012

New video card for cycles!

Project 2.6 will now be able to render using the Cycles render!  We just got a Nvidia 560 with 2gb of DDR5 memory.  This will allow us to successfully render using cycles without crashing the program.
When idle, the 560 runs about 30 degrees Celsius, but after 1000 passes in cycles in jumps up to 75 degrees, and can render 6000 passes in just over 8 minutes.  Which is more than 10 times faster than the CPU!

We will hopefully have some more statistics and test shots later to show just what can be done with the Cycles render engine.  


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