Indigo Renderer Forum

Is OpenCL widespread and robust enough not to make a Cuda enabled Nvidia card the only choice for a new video card purchase?

I'm thinking of dumping my GTX 570 and getting either a Galaxy GTX 580, the one with the super quiet Artic Cooling heatsink/triple fan combo from factory ( for less noise and a bit more performance) or getting a Radeon card which seem a lot faster with OpenCL and they have double the memory.

I know Sony vegas ( my video app of choice) uses OpenCL, and Indigo can use OpenCL, which is only a fraction slower on my GTX 570.

OpenCL is a good long-term bet, which will be supported by Nvidia, AMD and Intel.

If you're after GPU power, rather get another 570 or a Radeon 7xxx The 580s get too hot, and there's some evidence that the Kepler cards aren't always as good at compute applications (eg. ray tracing) than the prior Fermi generation as you know.

Bumping old thread, any updates on what GPU's are giving the best $ value?

ENSLAVER wrote:Bumping old thread, any updates on what GPU's are giving the best $ value?

I'm guessing one of the mid high end AMD/ATI cards

Nvidia are stalling OpenCL performance on the mainstream cards