cwalrus Posted October 30, 2015 Share Posted October 30, 2015 Hi - I have boot camp on both my macs, and I'm trying to decide which one to install Houdini Indie on. Very similar machines- but the MacBookPro has an Nvidia GeForce 650 with 1024MB, and the iMac has an AMD Radeon HD 6970M with 2048MB. Do you guys think Houdini will perform significantly differently on one versus the other? (and just to head this off at the pass, I am aware that I should have a souped - up PC for this, but I don't have the budget- I have to use one of these two) Thanks!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lukeiamyourfather Posted October 30, 2015 Share Posted October 30, 2015 Definitely go with the iMac in this case. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cwalrus Posted October 30, 2015 Author Share Posted October 30, 2015 Thank you - but could you tell me why? I heard that I should definitely steer clear of the AMD's vs the Nvidias.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lukeiamyourfather Posted October 30, 2015 Share Posted October 30, 2015 The Radeon card has twice as much memory and the chip is faster. If you plan on doing any OpenCL accelerated work like Pyro or FLIP simulations this will make a big difference. I'm assuming other factors are more or less the same like the CPU and main system memory because those are also important. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cwalrus Posted October 30, 2015 Author Share Posted October 30, 2015 actually this is great news since I'd far prefer to use the desktop. Also it's cpu is faster, and i'm can double it's ram. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malexander Posted October 30, 2015 Share Posted October 30, 2015 Thank you - but could you tell me why? I heard that I should definitely steer clear of the AMD's vs the Nvidias.... Yes, Nvidia's OpenGL drivers are generally better than AMD's. However, Apple produces the OpenGL driver on OSX (with the low-level driver done by Nvidia, Intel or AMD), so the hardware vendor a little bit less relevant in OSX case. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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