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Graphics Card
The VisionHub renderer is based on the NVIDIA OptiX ray-tracing engine (https://developer.nvidia.com/optix ) version 7.2. It is necessary to have a NVIDIA graphics card with a current driver installed.
Minimal
- NVIDIA P4000 8GB or above
- NVIDIA GeForce 10xx (8GB)
Recommended
- NVIDIA GV100 64GB
- NVIDIA QUADRO RTX 5000 or above
- NVIDIA 20xx (10GB)
- For large surface visualizations, we recommend using RTX RTX hardware drastically improves the performance of surface rendering. However, it does not have an influence on the volume rendering.
Known Issues
- We use the NVIDIA hardware encoder for real-time video encoding. On a consumer graphics card (and even on a professional graphics card), the number of concurrently used encoders is limited.
- If you plan to use Virtual Machines (VMs) make sure that the GPU and graphics card can be handled by the virtualization stack. VMware provides a commercial option, which allows for splitting of the GPU. HyperV on the other hand, can assign the complete graphics card to one VM, but it cannot share the GPU among multiple VMs.