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Hi guys,

don't buy it!

a friend of mine did some tests...

You are advised.

gabrielefx wrote:Hi guys,

don't buy it!

a friend of mine did some tests...

You are advised.

I believe Octane couldn't get all the power out of it..
Anyway even with all squeezed out 3x GTX680 should outperform..
( and at least these work out of the box =)

Thanks fo info, Gab.

Oh noes! Just ordered 4 of them last night.

Well not really. I guess I will wait for 7XX series gaming cards and see what happens.
Does your mate have some numbers to share?

Thank you Gab for the suggestion!

What happened?? Is it that bad?

My guess is, for Octane, it won't be good value for money. Probably not a terrible card, though.

Specs: http://www.anandtech.com/show/6446/nvid ... es-at-last

Well, it's not that bad in the end =)

Let's say, new 580 & 590 are almost unavailable, thus if You looking for new card it leaves You with the choise of two: 680 - for most of vRam & 690 for speed =) for ~500 & ~1kEu

If..690 would be good for You, but even 680s 4gb is short of vRam for Your massive projects..- then..K20 is not so bad =) as a choise.. =) yeah, it cost much, but it's a single card with two slot design and with 5-6gb to fill..that's not only the fastest, but bigest too..

The price is right in my oppinion =)

On the other side..I wouldn't buy it for Octane, 'cos the loading times of that let's say 5gb scene would probably be astronomical..- hope devs will work out with voxelisation and one day beasts like these will be actully justifyable.

If K20 not to good for gpu render so intel phi just wasted your money!!!

http://www.novatte.com/products/xeon-phi/m40phi