POV-Ray: Newsgroups: povray.windows: Lets Get Some Clarity About Graphics cards: Re: Lets Get Some Clarity About Graphics cards

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From: Stephen
Date: 9 Jun 2008 04:23:43
Message: <6upp4418obqu3otrkevft5qd7c7s32msoe@4ax.com>

On Mon,  9 Jun 2008 04:05:44 EDT, "Captron" <439087*@gmail.com (Remove
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>Comments have gone before on this list about the video cards not really doing
>much for the rendering time well now is the time to come out of the closet and
>see the Duo and Quad 128bit cards that are available. Is this still true?

The way I understand it is, PovRay does not use the graphics card for
rendering. It is all done with the CPU(s). So buy your graphics card
for your other apps. If you use a modeller then you will get some
benefit for your display.
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Regards
     Stephen

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