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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>An often asked question is what's the difference
between a more expensive graphics workstation card and a regular "gamers" card
that seems to work equally as well?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The answer is that high end workstation cards are
often equally as fast as the "gamers" card and some gamers cards are even faster
as far as GPU core clock speed goes.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>But, the workstation cards have extra driver
abilities that 3DS Max, AutoCAD, and Maya in specific can harness to use
the GPU power in ways the gamers cards can't.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>That is often the only difference between a $250
dollar gamers card and a $1500 dollar workstation card.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The GPU is an awesome proccessor and Blender would
be a trailblazer as far as 3D packages go to have an option to use the GPU power
on a gamers card to render DSM.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>So, the idea is not far fetched but realistic and
doable provided the low level code is written and plugged in.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The whole goal is to take some of the load off of
the CPU and let the GPU which is often more efficient do the work of rendering
DSM. And as far as most grpahics cards go these days, inexpensive ATI and
Nvidia cards are fully capable of doing the job. So, no need to panic
about the idea because it's already being done.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Digikiller</FONT> </DIV>
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