Polygon limit & Viewport Performance

[rpmaguire]

Hello ,

I have a question about Polygon limits & viewport performance. I am running softimage 2013 on a laptop and the video card is nvidia quadro 1000m.
I have a scene with around 3.5 million polys. It is very slow with any kind of component manipulation.
As I have never ran into this before, I am assuming its the video card?

Is there a website that shows how many polys a video card can display?

Thanks,
-Ryan

[myara]

I would say it is Video Card related. Try hiding and isolating objects. It should get smoother.

[Nox]

I think component manipulation is actually done on CPU.

[FXDude]

Seems your GPU may be it.

Find '1000m' on this page
http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/high_end_gpus.html

It's way at the very bottom (of the high end card section)

[FXDude]

Speaking of viewport performance, doesn't Fabric use it's own display host in softimage?

So would using Fabric technically allow for greater viewport performance?

EDIT: And if so, how does selecting components, painting wheights etc.. work (if it does work)