Actual Benchmarks on GTX 680’s in Resolve?

[Rohit Gupta]

Here’s the deviceQuery for the 580:

Total amount of global memory: 1536 MBytes (1610285056 bytes)
(16) Multiprocessors x ( 32) CUDA Cores/MP: 512 CUDA Cores
GPU Clock rate: 1544 MHz (1.54 GHz)
Memory Clock rate: 2004 Mhz
Memory Bus Width: 384-bit
L2 Cache Size: 786432 bytes

[Juan Salvo]

Looks like a stock 580. Thanks for posting Rohit. Interesting, so the overclocked 680 has performance similar to that of a standard 580. I’d imagine then the best or one of the best performing cards for resolve might be an overclocked 580. Like the GTX 580 3gb classified. Of course that card could never run in a MacPro, it would require too much power and produce too much heat. But for those running cubix or going to windows, looks like a good choice.

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[Jeremiah Belt]

I’m torn…I can get the new 680 4GB for $20 more than the 580 3GB. Soo 3×580 3GBs or 3×680 4GBs on Windows for Resolve, After Effects, & Premiere work? Would the 4GBs of memory each bring the performance closer to the 580s?

[Jeremiah Belt]

Hey Rohit. Im about to pull the trigger in my workstation. I missed my window to buy some 580s and now I have to get used or pay over $600 for the 3GB versions. I’m thinking of just buying three GTX 680s with 4GB of ram each and hoping for the best. Any new performance comparisons or benchmarks in Resolve with 680s? Hoping the 4GBs will get them a bit closer to the 580s.

[Juan Salvo]

If you’re getting three of them I don’t think the performance hit will be huge between the 580s and 680s as with that many devices you start to run into a bandwidth bottle neck on performance.

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[Jeremiah Belt]

Thanks, that’s what I’m hoping. Bought 3 of them today (1 for GUI and 2 for GPUs). Ended up buying the Galaxy GTX 680 4GBs due to their custom coolers reported to be quieter than the competition. Bought a board that should be able to utilize all three cards at full 16x bandwidth on PCIe 3.0 slots. Hoping for the best.

[André Finotti]

Hi Jeremiah,

I’m going in the same path, Windows + GTX 680 or 580.

So, after all, what are your impressions?

Thanks

[Jeremiah Belt]

Well I’m still in process sadly. Turns out when you buy bleeding edge cpus they are hard to cool. I’m on my fourth set of heatsinks. Here’s to hoping these work. Should be another week or two before I have it all stress tested and all 3 GTX 680s in there. I will let ya know. Thx.

[Reuben Fink]

I have the same 570 card. Did you feel that the MacVidcards upgrade was worth the extra cost. I was under the impression you would only gain boot screen advantage not a noticeable speed increase after the upgrade. Did you notice quite a change?

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[Margus Voll]

In tech sense there should be difference as regular pc runs had the speed of macvids one on data bus.

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