Best Video Cards for 3dsmax 2014 Viewport performance?

OccultMonk · Jun 2013

I currently use 3DSMax 2011 with a Nvidia 8800GTX video card. This seems to give the best viewport performance. My newer Nvidia 560ti gives worse viewport performance in 3dsmax 2011. 3Dsmax 2012 and 2013 have always given worse viewport performance in both Nitro or Shaded mode with the 8800GTX and the 560ti. 3DSMax 2014 should have better viewport performance but with what video card? And will it be better that the combination of the 8800GTX with 3DSmax 2011?

- 770GTX = 680GTX nividia (GK104)
- 780GTX = Titan (GK110)

Eric Chadwick · Jun 2013

Autodesk has a list of hardware they've tested with, might help
http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/syscert?siteID=123112&id=18844534&results=1&stype=graphic&product_group=6&release=2014&os=8192&manuf=all&opt=1

AlexCatMasterSupreme · Jun 2013

With the 780 gtx I get about 140 fps with 12 million polys on screen. With the 7970 I get about 60-70. With the Quadro 4000 SLI it is terrible, do not get them.

I have my 780 OCd stable to be a s fast as a Titan.

The 770 will preform a little bit faster than the 7970. It sounds like if youre getting bad preformance with a 560ti you might have driver issues unless youre trying to do some absurdly complex simulation or something. Or importing 40 million poly models.

With that said 780 is what I would get unless you can swing two 770s.

I am assuming you have not installed 2014 yet? I can assure you it is extremely fast vs 2013 even. I just import stuff I barely decimated and don't even noticed how many polys im using. Normally I'd really have to hid objects to get better performance, not anymore.

Hope that helps.

Jerc · Jun 2013

As a general rule, staying away from any sort of "professional" card (Quadro or FirePro) is a good idea.

monster · Jun 2013

Huh, my 480GTX and 660GTX perform better than my 560Ti. I wonder of that's just a bad card. It plays games just fine though.

HAWK12HT · Jun 2013

-_- like srsly its sad to see people fall for this end of line top notch cards after every 6 months. Still only Blur, Blizzard and Platigimage produce jaw dropping content so to speak. I would suggest sticking with 6xx or 570 Nvidia series cards with max 24gb ddr3 rams if your mother board supports with latest intel cpu. That is if you plan to make pre render content.

Kbrom12 · Jun 2013

monster wrote: »

Huh, my 480GTX and 660GTX perform better than my 560Ti. I wonder of that's just a bad card. It plays games just fine though.

I'm running a Palit 560 ti 2gb and I have no problems in max, any version runs fine. I will say that in max 2014 I have noticed a big performance boost compared to 2012 which I use most of the time. I can get 15-20 mil polygons in the scene without to much sweat (if I have to that is)

OccultMonk · Jun 2013

I personally got a lot better performance with 3DSMax 2011 and an older 8800GTX card than with 3DSMax 2012 and 2013 with either the 8800 or the 560ti. There are a lot of posts on the forums from people with worse performance using 3DSMax 2012 and 2013 with either 8xxx and 9xxx and 5xx cards, than with an older card and 3DSMax 2011. For me 2012 and 2013 were much worse.

What sort of FPS performance does the 670, 680, 770, 780 Series give with around 40 million polygons in 3dsmax 2014?

OccultMonk · Jul 2013

Has someone else tested 3dsmax 2014 viewport performance yet with different video cards? I am especially interested in the performance of the 700 series compared to the 8800/9800 or 560ti.

Best Video Cards for 3dsmax 2014 Viewport performance?

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