POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.windows : GPU : Re: GPU Server Time
18 Apr 2024 00:42:00 EDT (-0400)
  Re: GPU  
From: nemesis
Date: 11 May 2011 07:00:00
Message: <web.4dca6b54eed3d57a9a1bcfb90@news.povray.org>
"Tamas Gunda" <gen### [at] yahoocom> wrote:
> When checking the CPU and graphics card performances, temperatures etc. while a
> picture is being rendered I realized that when the render window is hidden or
> POVray is minimized, the GPU is still working with full throttle. CPU is always
> about 100%, this is OK. But why the GPU, too? I'm not an expert of hardware so
> sorry for the question.

Surely some mistake.  Everyone knows povray is a CPU-only math surfaces
raytracer and GPU is just for games...


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