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On 02/03/16 13:50, Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> Hello list, |
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> It's approaching time to invest in a new system, and I'd like the panel's |
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> views on which make of graphics card to choose: AMD, nVidia or Radeon. I |
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> don't want to start a flame war, but which of those would give me the best |
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> performance in GPU calculations? I have some BOINC projects in mind, which |
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> apparently are greatly accelerated by using GPUs as well as CPUs. |
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> The nouveau driver for nVidia can't do CUDA (GPU) calculations so I'd have |
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> to use the nVidia driver; I don't know about the others which is why I'm |
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> asking. |
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> Does anyone here have an opinion to offer? |
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If you need 64-bit FP compute, AMD Radeon is your only choice. NVidia |
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only supports 32-bit FP and cripples 64-bit FP on consumer cards, |
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rendering them virtually useless; you'd have to buy a "professional" |
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card (thousands of dollars). |
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So you might want to check whether your applications need 64-bit FP or |
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32-bit. |
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