billtheia Posted September 17, 2021 Share Posted September 17, 2021 Can anyone out there tell me if my video card will work with the new Redshift renderer? 2017 iMac - Radeon Pro 580 w/ 8 GB. Thanks. Quote Link to comment
neal-2002 Posted September 17, 2021 Share Posted September 17, 2021 If pro 580 is basically a posher workstation rx 580 then it looks like it’s a No. you’ll also need big sur installed…..if you’re on Vss - just download and see if it works? 1 Quote Link to comment
zoomer Posted September 17, 2021 Share Posted September 17, 2021 Not sure. Basically I would say it could work. Not the fastest GPU for todays needs but still a dedicated GPU. AFAIK I thought the the 16 GB limit of shared(!) Memory is just meant for M1 Macs with Redshift. Is see not why an 8 GB VRAM GPU should not work with Redshift - as long as the Projects complexity fits into the VRAM. Please look at the official VW min Specs for Intel Macs. Beside I do not think that Redshift is so important. It will only shine with complex geometry that has complex Materials and still fits into your GPU. And in most cases it is not very "real time" like Blender's Eevee, Twinmotion or Enscape. It also looks quite similar to standard RW Rendering. Where it will not help or be much faster than standard RW CPU Rendering is with standard complex Geometry and reduced Materials without much (blurry) refelections and other render time intensive settings, where standard RW CPU rendering may be still much faster. Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee inikolova Posted September 21, 2021 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted September 21, 2021 Here are the system requirements by Maxon: https://www.redshift3d.com/product/system-requirements Also, I'd like to add that Vectorworks Cloud Services now has servers that meet the Redshift requirements. So, even if your hardware doesn't meet the system requirements you can submit jobs with Redshift render mode to be processed on the cloud. Redshift only currently works for Export Panorama and 360 path animation movies, but we are working to make it available for the other job types as well. I hope this helps. Best regards, Iskra Nikolova 3 Quote Link to comment
billtheia Posted September 23, 2021 Author Share Posted September 23, 2021 Thanks all. Looks like my GPU isn't supported but I did download VW2022 and was able to use Redshift rendering mode. It was faster then the typical custom renderworks style I use but I think that was due to the settings (fewer light bounces, etc.) I'll need to do some more testing to see if it's any faster with matching settings. 1 Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee Dave Donley Posted September 27, 2021 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted September 27, 2021 On 9/23/2021 at 2:02 PM, billtheia said: Thanks all. Looks like my GPU isn't supported but I did download VW2022 and was able to use Redshift rendering mode. It was faster then the typical custom renderworks style I use but I think that was due to the settings (fewer light bounces, etc.) I'll need to do some more testing to see if it's any faster with matching settings. Hello @billtheia If you create a new Renderworks Render Style resource and choose Redshift by Maxon from the Type popup, there will be a little message saying whether VW thinks your computer can run Redshift or not. If you choose a Redshift style and your computer doesn't support it then you will get a Custom Renderworks rendering. Quote Link to comment
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