Friday, March 9, 2012

Does Graphics Card affect preformance of rendering?

I have a feeling that this is an urban legend, but I'd to verify:

Will the graphics card installed in the RS machine affect performance of any of the rendering laternatives? If so, significantlly?

An RS machine is typically a server, and such tend to have low-end graphics cards.

Two of my customers insists that they have "heard this somewhere"...

RS uses GDI internally for some rendering operations. In theory, a video driver can hook GDI and perform some of the operations more efficiently. In practice, I don't think we have seen anyone report any performance boost because of this though.

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