topic Re: AMD Radeon Laptop Graphics Cards - ArchiCAD 16 in Installation & update

AMD Radeon Laptop Graphics Cards - ArchiCAD 16

Anonymous — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 17:20:11 GMT

Is anyone using AMD Radeon graphics card in their laptop
for ArchiCAD 16? Do they work well, or do they have
any issues. I am looking at a new laptop with an AMD Raden HD 7670M 1GB.

Also, is anyone using the Nividia GeForce 650M with 16?

Re: AMD Radeon Laptop Graphics Cards - ArchiCAD 16

Gerald Hoffman — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 17:50:09 GMT

I am using a MacBook Pro which has a AMD Radeon HD 6770M ( 1GB ) card. It works very well.

Cheers,

Re: AMD Radeon Laptop Graphics Cards - ArchiCAD 16

Anonymous — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 00:52:45 GMT

Thanks for your response. I was reading the Recommended Video Cards
for ArchiCAD 16 on ArchiCADWiki. It states "we have also good experiences
with most of the standard Nvidia cards, somewhat worse experience with
AMD/ATI cards". I know a lot of MacBook Pros come with AMD cards.
I'm glad to here that yours is working well. The machine I am looking at
(a Dell Vostro) comes with an AMD Radeon. I'm really tempted to by it, but
Graphisofts "somewhat worse" statement is giving me second thoughts. Anyone else have experience with AMD Radeons on laptops (windows or Macs)?

Re: AMD Radeon Laptop Graphics Cards - ArchiCAD 16

Anonymous — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 10:33:37 GMT

I am on a Lenovo y560 with AMD 5730 1 gb and have been testing Archicad off and on.

I plan to buy a desktop and this time I will definitely go for Nvidia GPU with maybe AMD FX series 8 core CPU.

Reason: AMD GPU with 16xAA is very slow in 3D-Octane is developing a plugin for Archicad & Octane is presently only for Cuda-Lumion works better and faster with Nvidia.

Bottom Line- Cuda is better than OpenCL for Architectural Viz