Commenting on: MachStudio Pro ships - $5k gets you software & FireGL V8650 - Say goodbye to render farms

StudioGPU announced that MachStudio Pro is now shipping for Windows XP and Vista.  MSRP is $4,999 and that includes an AMD ATI FireGL V8650 3D workstation graphics accelerator card (2 GB framebuffer).  Here’s the short take home summary: MachStudio Pro harnesses multi-threaded GPU computing so that lighitng and render times can be dramatically reduced from hours to minutes and minutes to seconds or sub-seconds. Comparable final scenes are consistently rendered with MachStudio Pro at rates of 500 to 900 times faster than traditional rendering packages.

I’ve written about MachStudio Pro previously because it really takes advantage…