@hellnbak said:
I just ordered this card from Newegg. Good choice, bad choice? I'm not concerned with rendering, only SU.
As my GTX560 is a huge improvement in comparison to my 8800GT, I would expect this 570 with 2560MB RAM ( 
) to perform very very good.
@unknownuser said:
Nvidia all the way. I've had nothing but problems with ati cards and sketchup. I have the gtx560 and it works great.
Do you have the regular 560 or the TI version ?
What are your system specs ?
As I said before sketchup works much smoother with my GTX560 in comparison to my previous 8800GT, but now that my model is growing I'm starting to see some slowdowns from time to time when I set the faces to "shaded with textures".
Fortunately it's nothing dramatic yet, but my model isn't halfway... 
(FYI: I have no 3d trees or other "heavy" 3d objects in my model)
FYI: I just received and installed my new GeForce GTX-560 and did some tests with it and I am very pleased with its performance so far 
Sketchup seems to work very smooth now and the lines are much sharper than before.
As an indication:
Windows Experience Index gave me a 6.9 for my 8800 GT while I get a 7.5 for the new GTX-560.
And I just noticed that my Quadro 600 on my other, more powerfull system only gets a 6.6 
Ok, I'll have to wait and see then 
Nevertheless I decided to order the GTX-560.
Thanks everybody for giving your feedback.
BTW, I noticed that the GTX-560 (at least the Asus version) is even larger than my 8800 GT.
Combined with the dual-slot layout this means that I'll have to offer 3 of my 6 sata ports 
Ok, I understand that the rendering application is also an important factor for the GPU choice, but my first and main concern at this very moment is the speed/usability of sketchup itself, which is unfortunately not always very satisfying at the moment.
For the rendering application I haven't made a choice yet, because the prices vary from completely free to several thousands of dollars (while each rendering application has its pros and cons of course).
Currently I am using both Kerkythea and Maxwell render free, but I am also considering Thea render, Maxwell (licensed pluginn because studio is too expensive at the moment), Artlantis Render, IRender nXt and Indigo Render.
Are there already any details available about sketchup 9 ? Will it benefit from CUDA cores ?
That was my first reaction too
I expected to see a much smoother sketchup with that quadro card and cpu, but unfortunately it isn't
Sketchup can be very very slow on that system and even "not responding" or even crashing.
And that's the reason why I also asked whether the cuda cores and/or stream processors are important, because that's apparently not so good with the Quadro 600 (i.e. only 96 CUDA cores)
Ok, thanks for all the feedback so far.
So apparently the NVidia card wins hands down (especially in regards to stability/reliability)
But what about CUDA cores vs stream processors ?
What's the benefit of having CUDA cores at this very moment ?
Or is it more for the future that this will become important ?
And what about the stream processors, because the AMD card has much more stream processors than the NVidia card.
FYI: I also have another system with an NVidia Quadro 600 1GB (Core i5-2400 @ 3.1 Ghz, 8GB RAM) and to be honnest I'm rather disappointed about its performance with Sketchup.
I want to replace my NVidia GeForce 8800 GT 512MB with a newer and more powerful GPU.
My system specs:
My options for the new GPU are either a GeForce GTX560 (Asus ENGTX560 1GB) or an AMD HD6870 (XFX HD6870 Dual Fan)
I read somewhere that the AMD should be slightly faster than the NVidia, but some other sources recommend a GPU with CUDA cores for 3D rendering (i.e. an NVidia card)
So what is your advise and why ?
thanks,
Guy