Ati Radeon 9600xt or Geforce 4 ti 4200 for maya?

[mrme10]

Hi everyone, this is my first post. I'm from Argentina and I'm starting to work with Maya. I own an HP Pavilion t340m, and am about to add more RAM to it, and change the VGA card.

For almost the same price, I've been offered a Radeon 9600xt and a Geforce 4 ti 4200.

I need to know which of them will work better with Maya, so I don't throw my money away

Thanks a lot!

[joojaa]

Gforce.

[diggitydanks]

I have an Alienware with a P4 2.5, 512 RAM, and a Geforce 4 ti 4200 and I can barely run Maya. Don't know if it's the card or the memory, but it literally takes 5 minutes to start, and then I get lots of errors and crashes.

[joojaa]

What errors, maybe the tip is there?

Load time of maya has to do about how fast your drives are. Maya id HUGE, as maya reads some 200 megs of data on startup Also what is the state of your disks? The graphics card does not have much impact on the time tough.

Neither the ati nor the gforce mantioned is a proper card to run maya tough! For that youd need a quaddro.

[user_deleted]

If you can't afford a DCC (Digital Content Creation) card (ie: FireGL, Quadro, Wildcat) then opt for a newer non-DCC card such as Geforce 6600/6800 or Radeon X800/X850. The architecture of the GPU have changed significantly since the release of the cards you mentioned as well drivers have improved over all. Several online retailers offer better deals than independent retail stores such as Tigerdirect, NCIX, Outpost, etc.

[bendingiscool]

I have p4 2.4 and GeForce 5900XT. Maya works perfect. Same thing was with Maya 5 when i had GeForce 4 MX 440, witch is not recomended; wich means that problem with 5 minute time of opening maya is software not hardware problem. Also it is true that maya requires lot of RAM at starting up, but i think 64 MB of graphic RAM is enough for faster starting maya. If you want to work in shaded view and if you have lot of polygons in scene than it is required lot of RAM on graphic card. And i think GeForce is better because I have no problem with non-recomended GeForces for Maya

[joojaa]

theres other hardware on the computer than jsut the graphics card you know. Wierdest glitches happen whan the conflicting hardware is the mobo, or memory.

but my initial gues would be that the harddrive is fragmentted!

[pandusen]

Well i have bean testing varius of LoEnd nonDCC cards
at the SGscool were i work....my experience is to allways
go for Nvidia when it comes to working with Maya! for some reason the ATI cards accelerate verry purly in maya...and you will experience alot of refresh & drawing problems!

My answer GeForce 4200 i have had a card like that ones and it works allmost flawless with maya"but it is verry depended on the Driver version"

[donricodelavega]

Almost everyone says NVidia is the way to go over ATI.

I don't know how different it is, but I've got a GeForce FX 9560 128MB video suite and it always ran maya like garbage. I had major glitches. Screens wouldn't refresh when changing views and I couldn't run a playblast of more than 20+ frames.

Then my friend got an ATI all-in-wonder 9800 pro 128mb and it ran the same maya file way better than mine ever did. None of the glitches happened. So now when people say Nvidia is the best I don't know what to think. Thats not what I've seen.

R

[joojaa]

Yes well you can get bad performace with gforces too, but in gneral everytime ive ever used maya on a computer with a ATI all-in-wonder 9800 pro it was like mashing my head against the wall, sometimes it was missing manipulators and sometives missing points etc.

BUT yes you CAN get bad peroformance out of a gamer GFORCE... the deal is that with gforces the difference betweena stable driver and game optimized one is huge. Also must admit it that theres many other reasons maya might be slow than just the graphics card drivers.

And yes some gamer geforces work better then others.

Nevertheless i wouldnt consider a ATI for maya use. While i personaly would RATHER use a ati or 3dlabs for philospophical rasons, its just not worth it because nvida is so much better.

But the point is that most glich quetions on the forums are from ATI users. Anyway i personaly usa a quaddro just because theres a guarantee for no glitches.

[donricodelavega]

In that case what would be the best quadro to get that would be about the price of an ATI 9800 pro?

R

[mrme10]

Ok, I've been offered this: Asus ti 4200 V9280 TD 128 mb

Would it work well with Maya? And which drivers should I use?

[joojaa]

the cheapest reasonable quaddro i woukd consider would be qfx 700, offourse their price range is sonmething much higher than consumer cards (they are for pros that relay do have the money to spend on their tools, after all they make money with them):

Quadro FX 700 wich costs a bout 500$

Personaly today id go for a

Quadro FX 1400 wich is some 150-200$ more expensive and runs on a PCIE connection.