todarsey Posted July 30, 2008 Share Posted July 30, 2008 Our company uses software that runs on OpenGL. Is there a way to see what cards run OpenGL better than others? The reason I am asking is, I have seen cards that say that they support OpenGL 2.0 but I will have to slow down the hardware acceleration to about half to get the card to display correctly, which slowes down performance BIG TIME. One example of a card I am having trouble with is the ATI Mobility Radeon HD2600. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcarle Posted July 31, 2008 Share Posted July 31, 2008 You'd probably want to look at professional series video cards such as the nVidia Quadro series. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
puntoMX Posted July 31, 2008 Share Posted July 31, 2008 Our company uses software that runs on OpenGL.Your software provider should give you more information on what cards there software runs best. Like Jcarle stated, there are video cards with a different BIOS (read Hardware ID) that will enable features that would not be enabled at "gamer cards". Programs like RivaTuner can fake the software by changing the Hardware ID for the Video card. Software from Autodesk will be accelerated as the card is seen as FireGL or Quadro. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
todarsey Posted August 6, 2008 Author Share Posted August 6, 2008 That's kind of the problem, we are the people who have designed the software, but when I ask the people who do the programming how to find out which cards will run OpenGL better than others, all they can tell me is to do a Google search fore some bench marks on different cards. I can't seem to find a site that gives OpenGL bench marks on the cards I'm looking at. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcarle Posted August 6, 2008 Share Posted August 6, 2008 This article's a bit old, but you may find valuable information anyway : http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/opengl...phics,1269.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I_Broke_My_MHZ Posted August 8, 2008 Share Posted August 8, 2008 For a definitive answer you would have to look at the technical specifications of the cards. However you can safely bet that any video card that is used for Macs has full OpenGL support up to the advertised version, and you'll also find that nVidia has better support for OpenGL since they have better support for Linux and provide cards for Macs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
puntoMX Posted August 8, 2008 Share Posted August 8, 2008 ... and provide cards for Macs.So does ATI . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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