3DS MAX | DATASHEET | NOV 11

RAISE THE BAR FOR 3DS MAXNVIDIA® GPUs AND IRAY

“iray with the Quadro and Tesla card combination is delivering the kind of images I’ve dreamed about for over two decades”

N.T.W. Fox, Architect

The NVIDIA® iray® renderer for 3ds Max 2011¹ and 2012 provides 3D artists with an intuitive solution for creating photorealistic images—in a fraction of the time of traditional workflows. Designers can now use materials and lights that correspond and react like those in the physical world to quickly bring their 3ds Max worlds to life. It’s the ideal alternative to juggling a multitude of computer graphics controls to merely approximate image realism.

New to Autodesk 3ds Max 20122 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. iray’s full GPU acceleration minimizes the

iteration time between creative decision and seeing its reality—and within the final result, rather than an approximation.

For the fastest performance in 3ds Max and iray, take advantage of the new NVIDIA® Maximus™ technology, which provides 3ds Max users with up to 9x3 greater rendering performance. 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-processor(s) automatically take on the heavy lifting of rendering, freeing the Quadro GPU to do what it does best—powering rich interactive graphics.

MAXIMIZE YOUR SPEED TO PHOTOREALISM WITH IRAY and NVIDIA® MAXIMUS™

MAX ARTIST

Quadro 5000 or Quadro 4000 > The 3D artist wanting accelerated,

interactive graphics performance, and increased texture memory

IRAY SPECIALIST

Maximus (Quadro 5000 + Tesla C2075) > The visualization specialist wanting

to increase the performance of iray

> Delivers up to 8x iray speed up over a CPU3

IRAY EXPERT

Maximus (Quadro 6000 + Tesla C2075) > The visualization expert needing the

fastest possible iray results > Delivers up to 9x iray speed up over

a CPU3

WHICH CONFIGURATION IS BEST FOR YOU?

To learn more, visit www.nvidia.com/3dsmax or www.nvidia.com/maximus

1 3ds Max 2011 subscription content required.2 3ds Max 2012 with subscription advantage pack.3 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 relative to an Intel 3ghz x5570 Xeon CPU with 8 cores rendering alone. ECC has been turned off for all GPUs. Values shown are percent increase in render speed relative to CPU alone.

4 16GB is supported on Win7 and Linux64 (4GB memory limit on Windows XP64) via Rel 256 driver.5 Two out of any three connectors can be active at a time. © 2011 NVIDIA Corporation. All rights reserved. NVIDIA, the NVIDIA logo, Quadro, Tesla, CUDA, and Maximus are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of NVIDIA Corporation. All company and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of the respective owners with which they are associated. Features, pricing, availability, and specifications are all subject to change without notice.

MAXIMUS PERFORMANCE FOR 3DS MAX 2012 WITH IRAY3

Relative performance vs 8 CPU cores

Quadro 4000 Quadro 5000 Quadro 6000 Tesla C2075

CUDA Parallel Processing Cores

256 352 448 448

Frame Buffer Memory 2.5 GB GDDR5 2.5 GB GDDR5 6 GB4 GDDR5 6 GB GDDR5

Memory Interface 256-bit 320-bit 384-bit 384-bit

Memory Bandwidth 89.6 GB/s 120 GB/s 144 GB/s 144 GB/sec

Max Power Consumption 142 W 152 W <225 W <225W

Graphics Bus PCI Express 2.0 x16 PCI Express 2.0 x16 PCI Express 2.0 x16 PCIe x16 Gen2

Display Connectors5 DVI-I (1), DP (2), Stereo (1 optional)

DVI-I (1), DP (2), Stereo (1) DVI-I (1), DP (2), Stereo (1) DVI-I (1)

Thermal Solution Active Active Active Active

CERTIFIED AND RECOMMENDED NVIDIA GPUs

MAXIMUS PERFORMANCE FOR 3DS MAX 2012 WITH IRAY2

Relative Performance Scale vs 8 CPU Cores

0 1 2 7 9 1083 4 5 6Relative Performance

8 CPU Cores

Quadro 2000

Tesla C2075+ Quadro 2000

Tesla C2075+ Quadro 4000

Tesla C2075+ Quadro 5000

Tesla C2075+ Quadro 6000

NVIDIA® Maximus™ technology gives engineers, designers, and digital content creators the freedom to visualize and simulate at the same time on a single system. NVIDIA and Autodesk collaborate closely on product development to ensure that everything will perform just the way you expect from day one. Quadro graphics solutions are engineered, built, and tested by NVIDIA to provide the best performance and reliability. Plus, they’re backed by a three-year warranty and direct support from NVIDIA.