Michael_REMY opened this issue on Dec 26, 2013 · 12 posts
moogal posted Thu, 26 December 2013 at 8:09 PM
I'm upgrading to the AMD r9 270x ($200). GPU choice has no affect on Firefly rendering as Firefly is CPU based, though a fast modern GPU will give you much better OpenGL previews (with hardware shading enabled). The GPU is really only an important consideration if you plan to use Octane or Luxrender/Reality3 (and again, Poser's own OpenGL preview) which do use the GPU. For third party GPU based renderers that are CUDA based, an nVidia card is a must. For OpenCL renderers (such as Luxrender/Reality3) I would instead suggest an AMD (ATI) card.
OpenGL= Open Graphics Library
OpenCL= Open Computing Language
Luxrender is a renderer, Reality3 is a Poser plug-in to bridge Poser and Luxrender.