INDIGO RENDER vs nvidia SLI

[MattMR2]

Hi all,

I would like to know if Indigo support the SLI with Geforce GTX 480 ? and also know if when I use GPU rendering from Blender, Indigo will use HYBRID mode ( CPU and GPU ) or only GPU.

I'm new in indigo customer, and I want to buy a second graphics card to make a SLI.

Thank you,

Matthieu

[bahamut]

As far as i know Indigo does not have sli support yet.

And when you use indigo from blender you will have an option to choose between cpu and cpu+gpu (which works now only with path tracing)

[CTZn]

Hello Matthieu,

bahamut is correct.

Currently, Indigo will make use of one single GPU device (no benefits from SLI or double boards devices), and always in an hybrid fashion (CPU+GPU) for Path Tracing, other modes using the CPU exclusively.

See this topic for more details.

Glare Technologies is of course looking into extending the renderer abilities in these regards but no date was communicated to this day.

[MattMR2]

Oki,

Thank you for your reply. But if there're SLI on the system, can be a problem ?

Matt

[lycium]

There shouldn't be a problem, you can select which to use for rendering from the Indigo application.

[bahamut]

That reminds me of benchmark topic.
Is there a possibility to produce some standalone benchmark for indigo? The one that uses all possible settings
I have some connections in benchmarking and testing forums and it could provide valuable information, but the are not willing to instal indigo and run all test scenes on their own.

Bahamut

[CTZn]

That reminds me of benchmark topic.
Is there a possibility to produce some standalone benchmark for indigo? The one that uses all possible settings
I have some connections in benchmarking and testing forums and it could provide valuable information, but the are not willing to instal indigo and run all test scenes on their own.

Bahamut

It could be a single IGQ file that would successively load and render each of the test scenes for a fixed amount of time, once per rendering mode. It might even come bundled with Indigo releases (?).

3 scenes x 5 modes = 15 renders listed within the IGQ.

[bahamut]

It could be a single IGQ file that would successively load and render each of the test scenes for a fixed amount of time.

I don't really know what is icq file

But this could help and get less questions "which card should I buy?" or "wchich CPU is the best", etc.

[CTZn]

An igq file is a list (queue) of igs scenes to be rendered one after the other. Specifying rendering limits within the file is mandatory; it is primarily designed to support rendering of animations.

To be honest I did not dig the topic further but I am pretty sure that dougal2 did add support for those to blender.

Your "connections" would just double-click the IGQ file and wait

Edit: if it's only about wich gpu is faster then the file would only list the 3 scenes, once each.