This IS the Avid L2: Re: [Avid-L2] Graphics Card Recommendations

Wednesday, June 25, 2014

Re: [Avid-L2] Graphics Card Recommendations

That is good.... finally. Considering that they are 2 generations apart, the 780 has 4 TIMES more Cuda cores than the 580, and similar TDP, that performance is actually kind of sad.

NVidia is intentionally crippling the GTX cards to push the Titan and Quadro cards for compute tasks.

On 6/25/2014 7:34 PM, namyrb namyrb@gmail.com [Avid-L2] wrote:

Actually the GTX 780ti seems to have better cuda performance than the GTX 580.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/geforce-gtx-780-ti-review-benchmarks,3663-14.html

On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 4:24 PM, bigfish@pacbell.net [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

In what sense are they better? More Cuda cores?

---In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, <domqsilverio@...> wrote :

I forgot about the Nvidia 5xx vs 6xx/7xx factor for Mac.

FYI - for CUDA and OpenCL the 500 series cards are actually better compared to the newer 600/700 series.

Dom Q. Silverio

On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 11:30 AM, hoplist@... [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

On Jun 25, 2014, at 9:04 AM, John Pale pale.edit@... [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

Since 2012, the Nvidia driver included in MacOSX has included support for both Mac and PC Cards. The only difference between a PC Card and a Mac card is that PC cards lack EFI...which is necessary to get the gray Apple bootscreens.

This post gives a lot of information about it.

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1440150

That is so good I printed it to savor later! Thank you. I've been looking for an explanation like that.

Cheers,

tod