Nvidia 8xx series - castrated?
Posted: Wed Dec 18, 2013 9:49 pm
I'm not a pro in the GPU Business ... but as far as I know, the 780 has itrs FP64 (double precision Floating Point I think) Units castrated ... while the Titan has not. I'm not sure if I am exactly right here, but that what is used also by CUDA and Octane to render, no? Which means the "game" Cards are much slower for this Task?
If that's the case, was there any article about the coming Generation shedding some light on this, i.e. will a GTX 880 also be castrated? To my knowledge, the AMD's aren't so by pure power, a current R9 290x blasts any NVIDIA game Card out of the socks with regards to professional render Performance (well at least in theory,as it ha sno CUDA etc .. not sure how fast it is on OpenCL).
Can someone with a bit more knowledge on this maybe enlighten me?
If that's the case, was there any article about the coming Generation shedding some light on this, i.e. will a GTX 880 also be castrated? To my knowledge, the AMD's aren't so by pure power, a current R9 290x blasts any NVIDIA game Card out of the socks with regards to professional render Performance (well at least in theory,as it ha sno CUDA etc .. not sure how fast it is on OpenCL).
Can someone with a bit more knowledge on this maybe enlighten me?
Thanks for your answer! Makes me happy that I can wait for the 880 then, thanks. The 290x customs come out now ... sad that it can't be used, they're having really nice Prices it seems. Ah well.