Kepler lineup

[tehfailsafe]

At the speed the price of 580s on ebay are falling it might be worth it to buy more of those instead!
currently at almost $330 for a 580 vs $550 for a 30% increase?


Hmmm

[convergen]

Benchmarks leaked... Seems like its going to be a bit overrated.... Hopefully NVIDIA can do something with the drivers to help GPU rendering performance... either that or they are limiting performance on purpose to force us to tesla cards?

[t_3]

still opencl; the picture might change completely for sp cuda apps like octane. and if not, gamers, cheaply selling their 5xx cards will feed the supply chain for a long while

[bb3d]

I would wait at least half a year anyways before buying one of the GTX6x0, because as always, availability, prices and maturity of the drivers will be terrible in the first few months.
Looking at the benchmark above, Nvidia doesn't seem to be the best choice for OpenCL anyways and the GTX680 are expected to perform slightly better than GTX580 but with much lower energy consumption. Therefore you pay more for the GTX680 compared to the GTX580 but on the other hand your electricity bill will be lower

[gabrielefx]

if Octane was compatible with OpenCL I buy AMD and bye bye Nvidia.

I don't understand why Amd builds 3Gb graphic cards with 2x the Nvidia performances.

I will buy one Tesla only if it will have 3x the same chip GTX performances and 10x the vram amount.

[t_3]

if Octane was compatible with OpenCL I buy AMD and bye bye Nvidia.

I don't understand why Amd builds 3Gb graphic cards with 2x the Nvidia performances.

I will buy one Tesla only if it will have 3x the same chip GTX performances and 10x the vram amount.

better opencl performance imo not necessarily means that the true world performance is much different from a cuda solution of the same problem. of course it is impossible to judge because afaik there isn't a platform which is able to use both. but since gaming performance is not that much different, i doubt that using opencl (and ati) would really boost speeds. it would make of course a wider range of computing possible, including the cpu, but octane won't walk that path anyway

[gabrielefx]

if Octane was compatible with OpenCL I buy AMD and bye bye Nvidia.

I don't understand why Amd builds 3Gb graphic cards with 2x the Nvidia performances.

I will buy one Tesla only if it will have 3x the same chip GTX performances and 10x the vram amount.

better opencl performance imo not necessarily means that the true world performance is much different from a cuda solution of the same problem. of course it is impossible to judge because afaik there isn't a platform which is able to use both. but since gaming performance is not that much different, i doubt that using opencl (and ati) would really boost speeds. it would make of course a wider range of computing possible, including the cpu, but octane won't walk that path anyway

someone believe in the new beast...

http://blog.renderstream.com/2012/03/pr ... d-systems/

3X performance....we will see...

[Timmaigh]

If only the hardware reviewing sites were not retarded and actually tested the card for the CUDA performance. But not, down to the last of them, they are all about games, games, games...

[mbetke]

German site tested and it looks really bad.
http://www.computerbase.de/artikel/graf ... ucomputing

[t_3]

German site tested and it looks really bad.
http://www.computerbase.de/artikel/graf ... ucomputing

mh, but still no cuda test. this is either directx dc or opencl... so we still have hope

EDIT: and yes, by the way refractive/otoy; if you have a minute or two compile an octane cuda benchmark app, rendering a classy scene and make it known to the world - or let one of the current plugin devs do this work - sales will say big thanks for this extra amount of work, because it's the easiest & cheapest possible promotion you can ever have...

don't let luxmark fill this gap alone