oneseraph
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Well, I hope I can help
Maya and Zbrush will both work without workstation class cards. The main difference between your 460's and quadro pro or Fire-pro is speed and quality. Both Nvidia and AMD severely hobble they're consumer level cards when they detect certain applications running, for instance Maya, Zbrush, LightWave, Max, Auto-cad, Solid works and on and on..... The only good news is that in most cases neither company outright disables features except for OpenGL bufferd (VBO). Yeah I grant that is a big deal, especially when dealing with complex scenes. That said, when scenes get that complex they are probably beyond the quadro 600/FX 580 or the Firepro V4800. What all this means is, though it may go more slowly than you would like; or have an occasional artifact, for most Digital content creation applications you can get by with non professional cards. At least until you are in a production environment where your boss insists that you have a workstation card that can manipulate 500,000,000 quads and is willing to pay for it.
Maya and Zbrush will both work without workstation class cards. The main difference between your 460's and quadro pro or Fire-pro is speed and quality. Both Nvidia and AMD severely hobble they're consumer level cards when they detect certain applications running, for instance Maya, Zbrush, LightWave, Max, Auto-cad, Solid works and on and on..... The only good news is that in most cases neither company outright disables features except for OpenGL bufferd (VBO). Yeah I grant that is a big deal, especially when dealing with complex scenes. That said, when scenes get that complex they are probably beyond the quadro 600/FX 580 or the Firepro V4800. What all this means is, though it may go more slowly than you would like; or have an occasional artifact, for most Digital content creation applications you can get by with non professional cards. At least until you are in a production environment where your boss insists that you have a workstation card that can manipulate 500,000,000 quads and is willing to pay for it.
