Most CUDA cores for your money

[voon]

That's the problem: Default clocks mean nothing ... there's so many OCed cards and makers out there ... all makers are always present with OC (Gainward, MSI, Asus, EVGA, Zotac, Palit etc).

My favorites are the two MSI Gaming 780 Tis I own ... the most silent aircooled 780 Ti designs and clocking at 1150ish MHz (depends on card, they vary slightly).

[prehabitat]

That's the problem: Default clocks mean nothing ... there's so many OCed cards and makers out there ... all makers are always present with OC (Gainward, MSI, Asus, EVGA, Zotac, Palit etc).

My favorites are the two MSI Gaming 780 Tis I own ... the most silent aircooled 780 Ti designs and clocking at 1150ish MHz (depends on card, they vary slightly).

Hey Voon, can you run 1150mhz on both for prolonged rendering sessions??? Will really help my decision.

My only real limitation is due to my case & motherboard choice; I've gone for Rampage Gene iv in a Bitfenix Phenom Matx - I have two exhaust fans directly adjacent the pcie slots; although i will prob reverse the fans (to intake) to create positive pressure in case - I really want to stick to reference cooler which exhausts air rather than recirculates it..

Or I can go water; but I'm not ready for a full custom loop yet... And I can't justify it...

[voon]

I'm not sure what "prolonged" is for you ... but I can let them render at that speed for hours (well I didn't check every minute, but they were still rendering at that clock when I came back some hours later, so I assume they always did). Gamers often play for hours and hours .. they also need the cards to hold up to their sold clock levels.

I have two of them in PCI slot 1 and 5 .. so they have space to breathe. if you buy 4 of them, they'll get much hotter of course ... that's where I would go water personally.

PS: its 1140ish .. I'd have to check again, they run somewhere around that ... don't hold me on the 1150. But we're certainly not talking 8somethinghundred MHz stock clock here. But all cards, ASUS, Gainward etc should be able to hold their clock.

[prehabitat]

I had a request for this file recently - this is the original file

Please keep in mind the prices will be out of date and this was created when Kepler was out, but before Maxwell - was never intended to compare between architectures really (ie Fermi vs Kepler vs Maxwell vs etc)... Octane Bench found here: http://render.otoy.com/octanebench/results.php is what you should look for in that case - perhaps someone could update the numbers based on octanebench and update the costs based on todays prices and re-release this?

a $/Octanebench score matrix would be useful