Rhino Settings for best Performance

Rhino Rhino for Windows
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Hi Guys,

I know this has been discussed a lot - and I have poured through the forums already - but I wanted some more advice on my specific setup as I have a feeling my Rhino 6 is running slower than it should be considering the power of my system.

PC specs:

ASUS® P9X79 PRO: INTEL® SOCKET LG2011
Overclocked Intel® Six Core i7-3930K (3.2GHz @ max 4.6GHz)
32GB KINGSTON HYPERX GENESIS QUAD-DDR3 1600MHz X.M.P(8 x 4GB KIT)
QUADRO 6000 GDDR5 SAMSUNG (6.144GB)
QUADRO 6000 GDDR5 HYNIX (5.344GB)
2 X 24" ASUS MONITOR

My questions are (consider that I have done the obvious checks):

  1. Can I enable multiple GPU’s in Rhino? I can not SLI them for some reason - I think its because the RAM quantities vary sligthly. I think there was a post in 2015 that says SLI doesnt help much anyway.
  2. How do I choose a prefered GPU for Rhino as one has 6.1GB and the other 5.3?
  3. Can I improve grasshopper settings for faster performance? certain plugins that others seem to use like ‘exoskeleton’ just crash immediately.
  4. If you can see a problem with my spec, what would you recommend changing?

Thanks in advance,

Felix

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  1. SLI only works on games.
  2. That’s an Nvidia settings thing.
  3. Not really
  4. I have the same CPU with 4 1080ti’s, it’s getting a little long in the tooth, but still works perfectly functionally for any project, what are the specific issues you are seeing?
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Hi Jim,

My main issues are wtih raytrace and grasshopper; Maxwell fire is also very slow… Would RAM updating help? I would assume the motherboard and processor are still quite high spec even if they are 5 years old?

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The Quadro 6000 is a Fermi-based card with only 448 compute cores. Your CPU is probably as fast if not faster than a Quadry 6000. Something from Pascal-architecture and more than 1200 compute cores would be much better.

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Well I would assume it’s still pretty decent, I haven’t dug into benchmarks to see. One problem now that I think of it is how much performance has been lost in fixes for those multiple memory security flaws.

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Thanks. I will try to update that and the RAM

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Thanks for your help Jim