Affinity Suite and Nvidia GTX 1060 [windows]

[Uncle Mez]

Hello Everyone !

long time i've been here.
Well ! a good friend of mine is planing to ship me with an Nvidia GTX 1060 @6GiB VRam to help me have better experience on using my prefered design software.

My actual GPU is GeForce 210 @1GiB VRam and there isn't a real change, well it works but ...
Anything i should know about owning that GPU and running Affinity ?
i want to make sure of everything or close to everything before it reaches my door.

Thanks for helping me understand and improve.

[Ray S.]

The sad answer is that Affinty Software doesen't make use of GPU-Acceleration on windows, at this time. But I think the good people at Serif working on it.

[wonderings]

34 minutes ago, Ray S. said:

The sad answer is that Affinty Software doesen't make use of GPU-Acceleration on windows, at this time. But I think the good people at Serif working on it.

I do not know much in this regard, but there Affinity is not using the GPU at all? Uncle Mez is getting a significant improvement in the GPU end, going from a 210 to a 1060 with 6x the RAM which is also much faster RAM. 

[Uncle Mez]

Well I want to make sure before I source that GPU because i'm in such a limited budget lifestyle right now !
Also isn't GPU accelerated thing a good thing to implement on windows ?
Affinity look so fast and cool on MacOS with Metal then it does on windows right now and ... there is a need for the second ecosystem to also receive that improvement.

[walt.farrell]

4 hours ago, BofG said:

there is no GPU compute being done, and no plans for this to be added

The Developers have said it's something they have on their roadmap, but it's complex.

 

[MattP]

18 hours ago, BofG said:

The above was 5 1/2 years ago, this was from a request for offset path. It's still not in the software.

This is already written and checked in to the codebase for 1.9 so you can expect to use it in Beta very soon.

Sorry for all the waiting for stuff, but as you quite rightly suggest, people should definitely buy things based on what they are, not what they hope they will one day be.

[Mark Ingram]

RE: GPU. On Windows, we currently only use the GPU for presenting the rendered document for the screen. As this is such a trivial operation, there won't be any noticeable performance improvements by upgrading a GPU. Once we can take advantage of the GPU for rendering the actual document, then you would notice an improvement. 

[Uncle Mez]

On 7/3/2020 at 10:03 AM, Mark Ingram said:

RE: GPU. On Windows, we currently only use the GPU for presenting the rendered document for the screen. As this is such a trivial operation, there won't be any noticeable performance improvements by upgrading a GPU. Once we can take advantage of the GPU for rendering the actual document, then you would notice an improvement. 

Definitely this need to happen.
i don't how people from Mac are doing but when I make a document with lot's of layers and Fx applied there plus some polishing from APhoto the thing get's laggy and no one said 12GiB of RAM isn't enough

The hang mostly happen with APublisher but I suspect if I make massive use of APhoto or ADesigner it will surface so, GPU Acceleration is needed on Windows like ... yesterday !

TBH I like what the Serif team is doing and the way you guys work but think of us needing to stand the Challenge of Un-Adobing our lives and creations.

 

Thanks !