With viewport performance, it’s dangerous to assume that the graphics card you have your eye set on will work ideally with your workload if you haven’t done any research. The better-suited the graphics solution, the better the acceleration of this continually rendered window. What’s a viewport? In a 3D-rendered nutshell, it’s the big window where all of the scene manipulation happens. In this article, our workstation performance analysis continues with a look at viewport performance across eight pieces of software that heavily rely upon GPU acceleration. In April, we took a look at both Chaos Group’s V-Ray, and AMD’s Radeon ProRender, and soon after, a full onslaught of tests hit the same twelve GPUs for a good look at performance across a wide-range of workloads.įollowing that article, reader test requests led to another article this past weekend, diving into a look at performance with Redshift’s biased GPU renderer, MAGIX’s popular Vegas video editor, and one of the best open-source tools going: Blender. Over the past couple of months, we’ve analyzed workstation performance from a number of different angles. Autodesk AutoCAD viewport performance can be found right here.

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