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

Wednesday, June 25, 2014

Re: [Avid-L2] Graphics Card Recommendations

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