Hi everyone,
I’m not a tech person and my question is a very simple, but somehow complicated for me: Which gfx card would you recommend for Zbrush 3.1 / 4 ?
I’m considering in upgrading my ATI FireGL v5600, or should I stick to what I have?
Thank you for any advise given.
Seeing how Zbrush doesn’t really use the graphics card’s 3D possibilities at all, I’d say an upgrade can wait.
I’d wait until DirectX11 cards and applications made for them, personally.
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Cheers
Lemo
Thank you for your advise m8.
I would wait until Z4 is out for a bit before considering upgrades.
What is said above is pretty much true, ZB doesn’t make much use of the graphics card. However, if you’re going to take your models to something like Maya, Max, Modo, C4d, etc., the graphics card is pretty important tool.
Overall, we use Nvidia graphics cards very heavily these days. Except on a few stations, we don’t use the workstation high-end models as much anymore because the price/performance is somewhat marginal. I would look at Cinebench outputs for something like the new SLI models such the Geforce 285/295 models, which seem to give a lot of bang for the buck. (I, myself, still work mostly on two computers that are equipped with the Geforce 9xxx series, and don’t find myself paticularly hampered by the graphics adapater.)
-K