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Want to try Marvelous Designer 30 Day License

nonesuch00nonesuch00 Posts: 18,333
edited July 2020 in The Commons

 

OK, I want to try 30 days MD new that I have two compuiter that should handle it but the question is which one to choose?

I was given a new laptop today. It is an HP Pavilion Gaming with i5 Gen 9 9300H with intel Graphics HD 630 / 8GB DDR4 / 256GB NVMe SSD / 15.7" LED IPS FHD Screen / and nVidia GeForce GTX 1650 4GB DDR5 RAM. 

I have the desktop I built last November - February. It is Ryzen 7 2700 / 32GB DDR4 / MSI Radeon RX 570 8GB DDR5 / 2TB SSD / 27" FHD LCD Screen 

Clearly the desktop is better but, like iRay & nVidia are codependent, is MD and nVidia codependent or will MD run on modern AMD GPU GPUs well? 

Have any of you experience with such a choice of GPU situation with MD?

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  • SevrinSevrin Posts: 6,310

    MD uses CUDA, so that means Nvidia.

    * Currently, GPU simulation only works with Nvidia Graphics cards as we are using Cuda. In addition, the quality of GPU Simulation is not good as CPU simulation due to limitations of GPU simulation. However, you could use GPU simulation for faster draping and switch to CPU simulation for the final result.

  • nicsttnicstt Posts: 11,715
    edited July 2020

    GPU sims are new to it I believe; I use it sometimes.

    I've not used MD on a non-nvidia PC as I've had the current cards for about 5 years or more now (970 for monitors 980ti for rendering). I presume it is fine though.

    I've had the sim on the card 'crash', and I had to switch to CPU; I'm guessing RAM related.

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  • nonesuch00nonesuch00 Posts: 18,333
    edited July 2020
    Sevrin said:

    MD uses CUDA, so that means Nvidia.

    * Currently, GPU simulation only works with Nvidia Graphics cards as we are using Cuda. In addition, the quality of GPU Simulation is not good as CPU simulation due to limitations of GPU simulation. However, you could use GPU simulation for faster draping and switch to CPU simulation for the final result.

    Thanks, both of you. 

    So it looks like I should CPU simulate on the desktop.

    I did do a render test of my desktop CPU against the GTX 1650 GPU I have and the GPU was only about 50% faster.

    I guess if the Desktop CPU simulations are too slow I can request from MD to switch my temp license from my desktop to my laptop.

     

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  • lilweeplilweep Posts: 2,561

    I think you can use the temp license across multiple machines.  But it might be best (because the licenses will be linked to your machine) to only use it on one machine at first so you can sign up for another month using the other machine (and a separate email).  
     

    MD is a pretty light program when you have a simple garment.  My laptop's CPU and my PC's CPU are both pretty bad, and they handle MD fine for simple garments.  I do have good GPU's for both my laptop and PC, but MD is more dependent on CPU than GPU.

    If you are creating a complex outfit, it's best to make the indivual garments (eg., trousers, gloves, shirt) as separate projects before combining them at the end into a full outfit.  Even with a good CPU, MD can get unbearably slow when dealing with a large number of garment pieces.

    The GPU accelerated simulation is very fast (way faster than the CPU one) but it's not as good, particularly if you have an outfit with multiple layers or multiple pieces that are layered on top of eachother.

  • N-RArtsN-RArts Posts: 1,525

    I've been using it on my laptop, which has an AMD processor. I've had no problems running the program. There's just a little slowdown that happens when loading Genesis 8 avatars (but that might be due to the age of my machine). 

     

  • nonesuch00nonesuch00 Posts: 18,333
    lilweep said:

    I think you can use the temp license across multiple machines.  But it might be best (because the licenses will be linked to your machine) to only use it on one machine at first so you can sign up for another month using the other machine (and a separate email).  
     

    MD is a pretty light program when you have a simple garment.  My laptop's CPU and my PC's CPU are both pretty bad, and they handle MD fine for simple garments.  I do have good GPU's for both my laptop and PC, but MD is more dependent on CPU than GPU.

    If you are creating a complex outfit, it's best to make the indivual garments (eg., trousers, gloves, shirt) as separate projects before combining them at the end into a full outfit.  Even with a good CPU, MD can get unbearably slow when dealing with a large number of garment pieces.

    The GPU accelerated simulation is very fast (way faster than the CPU one) but it's not as good, particularly if you have an outfit with multiple layers or multiple pieces that are layered on top of eachother.

     

    Thanks. I decided to use my AMD CPU after testing an iRay render on my GTX 1650 4GB DDR5 vs Ryzen 7 2700 32BG the GTX 1650 was only about 50% faster so results like that only need a bit of patience and I'll get better results from AMD. Had I had a 260, 270, or 2080 and the render results were like 2000% faster on nVidia it would have been a difficult choice.

     

    N_R Arts said:

    I've been using it on my laptop, which has an AMD processor. I've had no problems running the program. There's just a little slowdown that happens when loading Genesis 8 avatars (but that might be due to the age of my machine). 

     

    OK, thanks. That sounds promising.

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