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Well, the new ADM cards are out and those perform almost as much as hd6990 dual core in a single core. Nvidia next generation cards unfoutunately not really a step forward in terms of rendering speed. Also HD7970 will be released in a 6gb edition by sapphire soon.

I am plannig a new render workstation based on 4 of these sapphire cards and I would like to kow if octane will be using OPENCL or not within 2-4 months. Can somebody from the staff answer to this?

OPENCL was always suitable,I dont understand why you guys saying this. Its pretty suitable to use for rendering engines. The proof is VrayRT, SLG (smallluxgpu), luxrender, indigo, etc and countless simple renderers.

So..as an owner of a glorious GTX470 and looking to replace it (can double I'm afradi too expensive both money and Powering both) with a faster one should I stay away from the 680?..shame 1530 cores that does not the trick...compare to my Fermi 448 sounded too good for less than 500 Euro (almost)..so any good alternative? the GTX590 is nowhere and still quite expensive for my wallet....

Seems i've posted this not where it should have been posted, but in kepler build..so just copy pasting here, as for some this info might be useful.


Be aware of this 'rebranding' http://www.tomshardware.com/news/nvidia ... 15289.html

What they do is..basicly renameing 5xx to 6xx and with minor tweeks & reseling it to audience =)

..for us, Octane users, there are no performance boost, but rather reduced performance as some of these models are optimised more for efficiency, rather than pure power =) so do Your homework before upgrading..

In few words: buying 6xx not neseceraly leads to better performance & that could be even fermi based card =) You can pay more, to get less =)


@justix 470 is about half as good as 580, so with the later you can cut rendertimes in half! If You manage to find one. =)

GTX580 reduces GTX470 render times by half? Can you show us some benchmarks to confirm this glimpse? If true, i'm buying one

NBraz wrote:GTX580 reduces GTX470 render times by half? Can you show us some benchmarks to confirm this glimpse? If true, i'm buying one

Oops, sorry 580 is more than twice faster as 460, but only ~30% better than 470 =p get a bit lost in this numbering =) sorry for misslead, my bad =)

eheheh! That's what i thought also But had to ask.

580 VS 680 tests will be?

octane did not seem to support 4.2 CUDA 680 GTX

Elvissuperstar007 wrote:580 VS 680 tests will be?

octane did not seem to support 4.2 CUDA 680 GTX

The kepler test build support it...

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Elvissuperstar007 wrote:580 VS 680 tests will be?

octane did not seem to support 4.2 CUDA 680 GTX

The kepler test build support it...

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Still far from using 1500 cores like a Fermi card...I'm confused by all this, is this card (GTX680) out of the question or do we have hopes for a screaming HORRAY! soon?

The thing is, those 1500 cuda cores aren't as so strong as the ones in the gtx580.
So we will never see the performance of the 1500 cores like a Fermi card.
Lets hope there are as half as good, that would be nice .