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JOIN THE RENDERING REVOLUTION
AND MAXIMIZE YOUR SPEED TO PHOTOREALISM WITH IRAY AND NVIDIA FERMI CLASS GPUS.
The NVIDIA iray renderer for 3ds Max 2012 and 2011¹ provides 3D artists with intuitive means for creating images that rival photographs in a fraction of the time of traditional workflows. Designers can now use materials and lights which correspond and react like those in the physical world to quickly bring their 3ds Max worlds to life, rather than juggling a multitude of computer graphics controls to merely approximate it.
New to Autodesk 3ds Max 2012¹ is iray support within its ActiveShade interactive rendering window. 3ds Max users can experience their edits in iray photorealism as they perfect their cameras, lighting, materials and geometry. Thanks to iray’s full GPU acceleration, the iteration time between creative decision and seeing its reality is minimized – and within the final result, rather than an approximation. View this video from Autodesk to see it in action.
Announcing NVIDIA Maximus
And now workstations with the new NVIDIA® Maximus™ technology provides 3ds Max users with up to 9x greater rendering performance2. Maximus-powered workstations are the first to deliver a unified platform that combines the industry-leading professional 3D graphics capability of NVIDIA Quadro® GPUs and the high performance computing power of NVIDIA® Tesla™ GPUs. The Tesla co-processors automatically take the heavy lifting of rendering, freeing the Quadro GPUs to do what they do best—enabling rich interactive graphics. Read how Mercedes Benz created a concept car using Maximus.For more information and updates, including availability from Dell, HP and Lenovo, visit our Maximus workstation page.
3ds Max iray using only a CPU after 2 minutes.
3ds Max iray using a Fermi-based GPU after 2 minutes.
Final Rendered iray Images
Performance Results
Which configuration is best for you?
Max Artist
The artist wanting accelerated, interactive graphics performance and increased texture memoryIray Specialist
The visualization specialist wanting to increase the performance of irayQuadro 5000 + Tesla C2075
> Delivers up to 8x iray speed up over a CPU²
Iray Expert
The visualization expert needing the fastest possible iray resultsQuadro 6000 + Tesla C2075
> Delivers up to 9x iray speed up over a CPU²
The Professional Advantage
Autodesk and NVIDIA collaborate closely on product development to deliver a reliable user experience, so everything will perform just the way you expect from day one. Quadro graphics solutions are engineered, built, and tested by NVIDIA to provide you with the performance and reliability you need, whenever you need it. And with a three year warranty plus direct support from NVIDIA, Quadro solutions ensure the highest standards of quality, delivering industry leading performance, capabilities and reliability.
For the iray FAQ, click here.
See what people are saying!
“With the introduction of the NVIDIA Maximus, I think we have finally achieved both ‘quality’ and ‘speed’. This new technology enables CLEAT and a client to carry out business smoothly by communicating with each other while viewing the same picture and changing colors and viewing angles. And because the NVIDIA Maximus environment dramatically decreases rendering time, the feed charged to clients can be reduced. Lower fees mean that clients can place more orders until they obtain accurate images that suit their needs.” - Kensuke Yamashita, President of Cleat
"Previously, rendering an image took 40 minutes, so it might take a whole day of test images to produce something we could show to a client. Now it only takes 15 minutes and we can do test images in about 10 seconds. We can do multiple tests, a fully rendered image and get client approval in half the time. It will take us a month or two to recoup our investment in the NVIDIA system." - Dionissios Tsangaropoulos, founder/CEO of Delta Tracing
“With iray, our customers see what they’re going to get - the lighting, textures, color, perspectives. Everything is lifelike.” - John Chipman, AIA, Chipman Design and Architecture
"With photorealistic renderings we create articles that would be impossible or prohibitively expensive to build in the real world. We can reuse the same background with different furniture, change the materials of the background set, and sell products before even a prototype exists, which provides better numbers for production." - Dionissios Tsangaropoulos, founder/CEO of Delta Tracing
Check out iray in the in 3ds Max 2012!
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¹ 3ds Max 2012 with Subscription advantage pack
² Test consists of a collection of hard surface objects rendered outdoors in 3ds Max with iray 1.2 comparing an NVIDIA Tesla C2075 and the indicated Quadro GPU with the CPU relative to an Intel 3ghz x5570 Xeon CPU with 8 cores rendering. ECC has been turned off for all GPUs. Values shown are percent increase in render speed relative to CPU
