Increase Performance by better Video Card?

[APE Design Ctr]

Hi all, I am thinking of upgrading to a new Mac Pro, but I am wondering if just a simple video card upgrade will help in speed increases. I am wondering if there is a card out there that will sweeten the Open GL render quality (so it is almost as good as FQ Renderworks) and at the same time, increase the speed.

Does anyone have any experience?

Thanks!

[Christiaan]

If I was getting one I'd go with the ATI Radeon X1900 XT 512MB option.

[Kevin]

Check out the Knowledge Base: http://kbase.nemetschek.net/index.php?ToDo=view&questId=122&catId=23

[mclaugh]

The Knowledge Base article is outdated. The graphics cards mentioned were for G5 (pre-Intel) Macs.

[islandmon]

Core Image > Quartz depends on the power of video processors & VRAM .

The GUI & Quicktime events now communicate directly with video making the

entire process at least 20x more efficient !

Core Image is an image processing technology built into Mac OS X v10.4 that leverages programmable graphics hardware whenever possible to provide near real-time processing. The Core Image application programming interface (API) provides access to built-in image filters for both video and still images and provides support for creating custom filters

[Kevin]

This post once again underscores the need for NNA to provide us users with factual data on how our computers affect the performance of VW.

I wishlisted this before: http://techboard.nemetschek.net/ubbthrea...=true#Post60119