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OT: Drool fodder for CUDA devotees
Two of NVIDIA’s new flagship GK104 GPUs on a single card, with 4GB total vRAM and 3,072 total CUDA cores between them, and it pulls as much juice as a 27″ iMac (300W).
Beast.
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OK. Wow.
Tim
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What does this offer over the cuda 4000?
Ric
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[Richard Cardonna] “What does this offer over the cuda 4000?”
According to the press release [link], more than ten times as many CUDA cores — 3,072 for the GTX 690 vs 256 for the Quadro 4000.
That is not a typo.
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[Andrew Richards] “Two of NVIDIA’s new flagship GK104 GPUs on a single card, with 4GB total vRAM and 3,072 total CUDA cores between them, and it pulls as much juice as a 27″ iMac (300W).
Beast.
Best,
Andy”And think of the money you can save on a coffee warming plate – just set your cup over box with the card and you’re good to go!
300 watts? Yikes.
Time to switch to an all LED studio light strategy to balance out the energy profile!
Still for you big iron devotees this has to be excellent news.
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[Bill Davis] “Time to switch to an all LED studio light strategy to balance out the energy profile!”
It not that bad given the performance. Lots of high-end gaming PCs with multiple GPUS draw a lot more power and some people use three gpus. Some of the newer mainboards I am checking out for a server built have 7 PCIe slots, all 16 lanes (which has been unheard of pre i7). Perfect for a great server built.
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WOW! I bet you could do some serious 4K editing with that thing…
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It is interesting that they doubled the GPU but with only a 50% increase in power. Yes 300 W is a lot but in an environment where RT performance matters, the computer will not be running all night rendering.
What matters is overall efficiency and actual power consumption. Many facilities have beer fridges that draw more power.
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[Michael Gissing] “What matters is overall efficiency and actual power consumption. Many facilities have beer fridges that draw more power.”
We must be working in the wrong facilities….!
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This is the dilemma – stay Mac and always be relegated to sub-standard graphics cards, especially those from ATI. Or go Windows with CS6 and be able to use these incredible cards. The added benefit with Premiere and Mercury is because so much work can be off-loaded to graphics card there is not the constant need to upgrade workstations – just swap out graphics cards once a year and your good!
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The card is Pcie3. That’s the big deal. Twice the processing power of Pcie2. So at half the voltage it will equal a pcie2 card, or in x8 slot it will perform the same as a Pcie2 in a 16x slot. See what that means? It will not matter the slots multiplier, you will not have to worry what slots are open. I don’t think anything can saturate a Pcie2 bus except for uncompressed footage. So put the raid on the x16 slot and the video card on a x8.
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