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best value GPU for seti?
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Gerry Send message Joined: 29 May 15 Posts: 84 Credit: 4,956,983 RAC: 0 |
overall what is the best GPU card for this type of crunching? under 200-400chf either AMD or nvida ..best value to add to my 2 290x's considering i have 2 spare pcie 2.0 ports now |
Todderbert Send message Joined: 17 Jun 99 Posts: 221 Credit: 53,153,779 RAC: 0 |
You may want to stick with AMD, and there are some AMD pro users around the forums that can help you out. If you have two machines maybe move your AMD cards to one machine then do a Nvidia build. Nvidia dominates MBs, and AMD dominates APs. Though that may change with new programs in the future. The Nvidia card/s I would get would be a 970 and above. I run some 960s and 750tis and they are great low cost cards, but for speed and efficiency the 970/980s do an awesome job. |
TimeLord04 Send message Joined: 9 Mar 06 Posts: 21140 Credit: 33,933,039 RAC: 23 |
I'm an EVGA guy. I have a GTX-760 in my newer machine, and a GTX-750 TI SC in my older machine. I have both crunching 3 Units at a time; though, I've been told recently that the 750 should only be crunching 2 at a time. I think that within the price range you've specified, you may be able to obtain something in the new 900 Series. Typically, they use less power than my 760, and crunch at least 3 Units at a time with the proper "app_config.xml" file in place. A year ago, though I paid over $300 for my 760. I've had NO ERRORS on my EVGA cards. TL TimeLord04 Have TARDIS, will travel... Come along K-9! Join Calm Chaos |
Zombu2 Send message Joined: 24 Feb 01 Posts: 1615 Credit: 49,315,423 RAC: 0 |
best bang for the buck are evga 750 ti's you can find em for 99$ I came down with a bad case of i don't give a crap |
OTS Send message Joined: 6 Jan 08 Posts: 369 Credit: 20,533,537 RAC: 0 |
best bang for the buck are evga 750 ti's you can find em for 99$ Not only that, but they do a pretty good job of saving you money after the fact as they don't consume many watts. |
Woodgie Send message Joined: 6 Dec 99 Posts: 134 Credit: 89,630,417 RAC: 55 |
I'll throw my hat in with the 750Ti crowd. I have 2 of them and they're doing a very good job. The main win with them is that they are bus powered, meaning they don't need their own dedicated power feed from your PSU, they get all the power they need from the PCI slot itself. This means they (technically) can't draw more than 75W which makes them very power efficient for the work they do. Having said all that I'd also take heed of what others have said in the thread which is if you have AMD then stick with AMD in the same computer, it's probably going to cause you a driver related headache to mix and match AMD and nVidia in the same machine. ~W |
rob smith Send message Joined: 7 Mar 03 Posts: 22216 Credit: 416,307,556 RAC: 380 |
Another vote for the GTX750ti, which looks as if it will cost you about 150chf. For a bit more you could head to the GTX950 at around 180chf. If you want to jump further up the performance scale I would look at the GTX970, but they are about 360chf. I don't think its worth going to a GTX980/980ti, they give about 10-20% more performance for a doubling in price over the gtx970 Bob Smith Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society) Somewhere in the (un)known Universe? |
TheHoosh Send message Joined: 17 Aug 12 Posts: 12 Credit: 11,693,138 RAC: 0 |
I wouldn't recommend the GTX950: they consume much more energy than a 750 Ti (in some cases twice as much; although specified with a TDP of 90W, they consume up to 120W in several games & benchmarks) while they do not offer significantly more computation power (~1700GFLOPS vs. 1400GFLOPS). |
Richard Haselgrove Send message Joined: 4 Jul 99 Posts: 14653 Credit: 200,643,578 RAC: 874 |
I wouldn't recommend the GTX950: they consume much more energy than a 750 Ti (in some cases twice as much; although specified with a TDP of 90W, they consume up to 120W in several games & benchmarks) while they do not offer significantly more computation power (~1700GFLOPS vs. 1400GFLOPS). Also, remember that those GFlops (peak) aren't the end of the story. What matters most is how well the hardware is 'balanced' with the software environment - application and driver together. For SETI@Home (MB), my GTX 470 - 1089 GFlops peak - still returns shorties faster than my GTX 750 Ti (1640 GFlops peak). But it uses more electricity, too. |
tbret Send message Joined: 28 May 99 Posts: 3380 Credit: 296,162,071 RAC: 40 |
GTX 970 would be my vote. It is the least of the "biggies" so isn't terribly expensive but does a very fine job with the CUDA applications here at SETI@Home. Also, the current CUDA application for Multibeam tasks does not really need a fast PCIe connection. A x4 electrical connection is fine. Your AMD cards are monsters and will outperform the NVIDIA cards on the current Astropulse work dollar-for-dollar. The 750Ti (or 750) cards are cheap and they do a reasonable job with Multibeam tasks, but they cannot hold a candle to my old GTX 460, 470, 560, 560Ti, or even the rather disappointing 660Ti cards. What the 750 series will do is save you money on electricity and they don't get hot. |
Grant (SSSF) Send message Joined: 19 Aug 99 Posts: 13744 Credit: 208,696,464 RAC: 304 |
The 750Ti (or 750) cards are cheap and they do a reasonable job with Multibeam tasks, but they cannot hold a candle to my old GTX 460, 470, 560, 560Ti, or even the rather disappointing 660Ti cards. I've found my GTX 750Tis to be almost on par with my old GTX 560Ti (I'm MB only). Longer running WUs are processed much quicker, but unfortunately shorties take a lot longer, so overall the GTX 750Ti is slightly slower. But it is only slightly. And it only uses 60W (actually more like 50W since the application isn't optimised for Maxwell), compared to the 200W for the older cards. If you've got the room, run 3 GTX 750Tis for less power than a single GTX 560Ti. Grant Darwin NT |
Jimbocous Send message Joined: 1 Apr 13 Posts: 1853 Credit: 268,616,081 RAC: 1,349 |
Another vote for the GTX750ti Ditto. |
Darth Beaver Send message Joined: 20 Aug 99 Posts: 6728 Credit: 21,443,075 RAC: 3 |
Gerry if cash not a problem R9 310 $550 ozzie new If cash is a problem Ebay GTX MSI 680 Lightning under $200 ozzie GTX 750 $180 ozzie so depends where you look how patient you are and how much cash you have |
KLiK Send message Joined: 31 Mar 14 Posts: 1304 Credit: 22,994,597 RAC: 60 |
The 750Ti (or 750) cards are cheap and they do a reasonable job with Multibeam tasks, but they cannot hold a candle to my old GTX 460, 470, 560, 560Ti, or even the rather disappointing 660Ti cards. +1 non-profit org. Play4Life in Zagreb, Croatia, EU |
Gerry Send message Joined: 29 May 15 Posts: 84 Credit: 4,956,983 RAC: 0 |
amd options? |
HAL9000 Send message Joined: 11 Sep 99 Posts: 6534 Credit: 196,805,888 RAC: 57 |
amd options? Personally I'm looking at the R9 380. SETI@home classic workunits: 93,865 CPU time: 863,447 hours Join the [url=http://tinyurl.com/8y46zvu]BP6/VP6 User Group[ |
Zombu2 Send message Joined: 24 Feb 01 Posts: 1615 Credit: 49,315,423 RAC: 0 |
amd options? i got a R9 390x and that card has been nothing but a royal pain in my ass on both win and linux I came down with a bad case of i don't give a crap |
Urs Echternacht Send message Joined: 15 May 99 Posts: 692 Credit: 135,197,781 RAC: 211 |
amd options? Could you be more specific what problems, win and linux (Ubuntu i guess), were hindering you to make good use of that card ? What did you try to get it working ? _\|/_ U r s |
Urs Echternacht Send message Joined: 15 May 99 Posts: 692 Credit: 135,197,781 RAC: 211 |
overall what is the best GPU card for this type of crunching? under 200-400chf either AMD or nvida ..best value to add to my 2 290x's considering i have 2 spare pcie 2.0 ports now If your PSU can handle three and the case has enough space maybe another R9 290 (seen at ca. 300€) should do best. _\|/_ U r s |
Gerry Send message Joined: 29 May 15 Posts: 84 Credit: 4,956,983 RAC: 0 |
i have a asus crosshairs formula V board with 4 pcie slots ..im strongly considering now selling the 2 290xs and getting 4 of something else without spending to much money... |
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