Autodesk 3ds Max

AUTODESK 3DS MAX

SEE YOUR DESIGNS AS QUICKLY AS YOU ENVISION THEM

The NVIDIA iray renderer used in 3ds Max provides 3D artists with intuitive means for creating images that rival photographs — in a fraction of the time of traditional workflows. Use materials and lights that correspond and react like those in the physical world to quickly bring your visions to life, rather than juggling a variety of computer graphics controls to merely approximate it.

Experience edits immediately as you adjust and perfect your camera, lighting, materials, and geometry with the ActiveShade interactive rendering window in 3ds Max. The iray renderer takes full advantage of your graphics cards, so the more GPUs you have, the faster your renders will be.

Now, you can render up to 9x faster using NVIDIA Maximus™ technology — while still working in all your other apps¹. This makes creating expensive and time-consuming physical prototypes and photo shoots a thing of the past.

ANNOUNCING NVIDIA MAXIMUS

And now workstations with the new NVIDIA Maximus technology provides 3ds Max users with up to 9x greater graphics performance. Maximus-powered workstations are the first to deliver a unified platform that combines the industry-leading professional 3D graphics capability of NVIDIA Quadro graphics cards and the high performance computing power of NVIDIA Tesla graphics cards. 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.

For more information and updates, including availability from Dell, HP and Lenovo, visit our Maximus workstation page.

Performance Results

3DS MAX BENCHMARK RESULTS

Relative Performance Scale vs 8 CPU Cores

THE PROFESSIONAL ADVANTAGE

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

1 - 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 eight cores rendering. ECC has been turned off for all GPUs. Values shown are percent increase in render speed relative to CPU.