I've realised that there isn't any topic to compare and centralised the "Crunching Power" of our graphic gards under Primegrid !

So in order to simplify the choice of GPU when buying a new graphic card, I suggest to post our results here in term of points.

I start with my numbers and some from my team members

PPS Sieve:
Ubuntu: ATI 5870@Stock: Average: 1 370s per task - 2 311pts - 6 073 pts/h - 145 700 pts/day
Gentoo: ATI 5870@Stock? : 1 050s per task - 2 311pts - 7 923 pts/h - 190 200 pts/day

Gentoo: Nvidia GTX580@Stock: 400s - 2311 pts - 20 800 pts/h - 499 200 pts/day

Windows 7 64b: ATI5970@Stock? : 1 150s per task - 2 311pts - 7 230 pts/h - 173 600 pts/day X2

And you ?

NB: Later, I will do a table to get a better comparisan, based on our results.

Oups...My post is useless then...sorry.

Oups...My post is useless then...sorry.

What I did so far was to take the GTX/GTS 4xx and 5xx and to also check the price of these, in order to find the best perf/price.

For ATI, it is clear that Nvidia beat them (that's why I took only the latest Nvidia version)

Here is the table (Simple Excel table)


What you can see is that unsurprisingly the model GTX 480/580, because of their price, have not a good perf/value.

But globally, based on this table, I think a GTX570 is a good value for those who want points and evolutivity.

Note that my prices are in euros, based on the french price comparison website "i-comparateur". And that the UT duration is based on the Windows app.

Don't know if it's worthy to do the same with other Nvidia cards, or ATI cards.

Scott

If you are looking for results from really ancient NV cards, I am pointing you at a 10 year old dual P3@933, running under W2K, on which I crunch using 2xPCI legacy GeForce 9,500GT cards.

Scott

If you are looking for results from really ancient NV cards, I am pointing you at a 10 year old dual P3@933, running under W2K, on which I crunch using 2xPCI legacy GeForce 9,500GT cards.

The 9500 GT isn't that old, John, but it's not exactly modern either...but (even though you linked to a different host) it still looks like it's completing tasks at a fairly decent rate. Just a tad slower than my notebook chip, and I only have one of those, anyway. Good stuff!

And good on you for having a Coppermine (right? that's a guess) that's still running. I've a history of bad luck with keeping my oldest systems running well or at all.

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How about this, then:

Win32 + GTX 460 (1024MB) OC@ 810/1000(4000)/1620 = 630s-640s/WU using PPS sieve 1.38

It's a factory-overclocked card (meaning it's more stable than, say, what one might do to a stock card) that cost US$130 (about 95 Euros).

Given you've listed the stock GTX 460 at 126 Euros, I guess GPUs are more expensive in France. Either that or I got a really good deal.

My card consistently beats the stock 470 and in most cases is comparable to a stock 480. Sometimes it's faster, even. From what I hear, it's also a bit less hot...

Nice table, yes. I feel better about my purchase now...!
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Scott

If you are looking for results from really ancient NV cards, I am pointing you at a 10 year old dual P3@933, running under W2K, on which I crunch using 2xPCI legacy GeForce 9,500GT cards.

Hey hey... don't be knocking those 9500 gt cards... I have one and it well it...

you guys realize that current WU's are running longer than before and will run faster soon?

you guys realize that current WU's are running longer than before and will run faster soon?

ookay, I'm wrong again.

Well...I have, in the past, OC'd the 460 to 1000/4500/2000 and run WUs in close to that time, but that's not very stable. It doesn't overheat but tasks error out a bit too much to show any real net gain in credits. And really...it's not all about credits for me. I just like pushing my hardware to the limit.

Funnily enough, my card was also a replacement...but of a GTX 260 that was sold to me defective, underclocked, and without telling me the company that made it had closed and would no longer offer RMA technical support and the "lifetime" warranty. I'm surprised I didn't have to fight that. :)

Maybe that's why my 460 was so cheap :o

At any rate, I think I'll wait til Kepler to upgrade again.
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Thanks for all your message.
Scott, your suggestions are more than welcome.

So I will modify my table later to add new spec.

looks like we are back into 18P range now.

so:

GTS250 - shaders @ 1990: 1.450 secs
GTX260 - shaders @ 1480: 1.480 secs (old 192 core version)

and a note: core-clock has about no influence here...

looks like we are back into 18P range now.

so:

GTS250 - shaders @ 1990: 1.450 secs
GTX260 - shaders @ 1480: 1.480 secs (old 192 core version)

and a note: core-clock has about no influence here...

looks like we are back into 18P range now.

so:

GTS250 - shaders @ 1990: 1.450 secs
GTX260 - shaders @ 1480: 1.480 secs (old 192 core version)

and a note: core-clock has about no influence here...

Was just wondering if I've misread this post. You are running a pps in under 2 seconds?

looks like we are back into 18P range now.

so:

GTS250 - shaders @ 1990: 1.450 secs
GTX260 - shaders @ 1480: 1.480 secs (old 192 core version)

and a note: core-clock has about no influence here...

Was just wondering if I've misread this post. You are running a pps in under 2 seconds?

LOL!

i'm german - numbers around here look like that: 1.000,00

so it's onethousandfourhundredsomething..

I wonder if some1 put the hands on 560. My buddy asking if he can save couple of $$ taking 560 instead of 570. Me personally do not think so though.

post my GTX480:

Gtx480 @ 808/2006/1616

average time: 319 seconds

I wonder if some1 put the hands on 560. My buddy asking if he can save couple of $$ taking 560 instead of 570. Me personally do not think so though.

My new Palit GTX 570... eyeballing the results, looks like about 380 seconds average. Everything on the system is stock so far, no o/c. Yet. :-)
--Gary
p.s. Ubuntu 10.10, AMD PhenomII 1090T

Thanks for the table.

AT the moment I am running a single host with a GTX275 which is also my normal leasure pc.

If I were to upgrade the graphics part I initially think of the GTX570 as a wise choice.
For a bit less money though I could also get a dual GTX460. I have no experience with a dual card system but that only makes it more interesting.

What would be the best choice? My main requirement since the pc is in the living room is that it is QUIET. A noisy pc I tend to shutdown a lot more, I get enough noise at work.

It all needs to be serviced by a cooler master silent 600 watt power supply.
The rest of the system is a standard i7 860 with two internal disks.

Thanks..

I would get the 570 if you have the Money for it, it's very comparable to the 580 but costs a lot less ...

Have you considered the newly launched nVidia GTX560 Ti, which has a good street price, lower power demand and is said to be more powerful than the GTX570?

Thanks for the tip, I did not know that the 560 existed. Seems like a good best of the rest choice beating my current GTX275 nicely.
Depends a bit on availability and price I guess

Here's a nice table where you can see some more details of the 560 compared to the rest of the GTX's

Part of the argument should be the price the GTX560 Ti can be bought at compared to the other GTX5xx models. The latter may have more shaders, and a slightly better crunching performance. But the 560 draws less power and is considerably cheaper.

It's the bang for the buck which may mean that a couple of 560s can be afforded?

8800 GS 725/1880/930 ==> 2.060 s with 260 driver 2.269 c
8800 GS 725/1880/930 ==> 4.122 s with 266 driver 4.568 c
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Hi there,

Sorry for not having replied earlier. Been busy during this Chinese New Year.

So based on your latest info, here is what I got:


However, it would be nice to improve the reliability of these number and also improve the scope.

Hence, I'm asking you to check these value if you have such a card.

Also, if you can give me more info about your cards, new cards, etc...it would be perfect, being based on the latest PPS app.

I might prefer that you use this format (but anyway, it is already kind that you provide me your numbers)

Graphic_card_name - Freq - time
(as some of you already did)

Thank you guys !

For your table:

Long WUs

GTX 295 --- GPU: 630, Mem:1008, Shader: 1368 ---- 2280 sec

8800 GT 512 (G92) --- GPU: 602, Mem:900, Shader: 1512 (All Stock) ---- 4320sec

Hope this helps.

HD 6850 (OC'd)

Core:850 mhz
Memory:1150 mhz
Shader Units: 960
Average WU time: ~3300 seconds (Unsure of how to check if they are long or short WU's. Have not been a part of project very long)

HD 6850 (OC'd)

Core:850 mhz
Memory:1150 mhz
Shader Units: 960
Average WU time: ~3300 seconds (Unsure of how to check if they are long or short WU's. Have not been a part of project very long)

Any GTX560 ?

I know it is difficult right now to do some comparison, but we need all of us to give our data based on same app/type of WU.

Thank you for your participation.

Any indication when the Quadro 4000 will be supported in PrimeGrid?

Any GTX560 ?

So the Quadro 4000 will run in PrimeGrid. I am restricted on what cards will run on a Mac and I'm trying to balance cost vs performance ....

I bought 2 GTX570 for my Linux server and it takes 785s (@Stock) to perform 1 WU of 4,523

What is the performance of a GeForce GTX260 and what is the street price?

Is the GTX295 more powerful than the 260?

What is the performance of a GeForce GTX260 and what is the street price?

Is the GTX295 more powerful than the 260?

Thank you all for the response.

It looks like, on power and price, the GTX 460 is the favourite to go for rather than a 2xx series card.

I am hoping to purchase a pair or three GeForce 9500GT 1024MB low riser PCI (not PCIe) cards for my Prestonia dual Xeon PCI/PCI-X bus server to get output from this PC.

I have my eye on a bunch freshly in at Amazon. But I have the problem of getting them over to the UK, which, I hope, will be by a US friend who has done it for me a couple of years ago for my Dual P3 W2K server.

Hi Guys,

I've been running a mildly overclocked MSI TI 560 for about 2 weeks now. Its been netting over 400k + p/day. I thought it was a good deal for about $100 bucks cheaper than a 570 based card. I think I'll buy another.

See primegrid host info below:
http://www.primegrid.com/show_host_detail.php?hostid=139856

Here's the card info below bought from Newegg:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127565
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regards,

Another thing I've noticed in comparing the 560 to the 570 based cards;

The 570 based cards have about 100 shaders more than the 560 (384 vs 480), so this works out to about 1 US dollar per shader with the average price difference of about 100 bucks between the two card types. Is the price difference worth it looking at the performance difference?

For me, I'm happy to keep the GPU price per card to 250 or less, so this seems like a fair performance compromise for 100 buck less.

I see the top single 570 based client produces about 644k rac per day. So you can see the effect of the extra shaders. Roughly 30% better than my slightly OC'd 560. Thats what your 100 bucks extra buys you.
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regards,

yup, and it looks like the vendors already figured this out for us. :}
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regards,

So the 570 can get about 33%+ more Credit Per Day than the 560's can for about a 30% Mark up. Sounds like either Card is very good, it just depends on what you want the Money or the Credit's ... ;)

The 570 I was referring to were EVGA SuperClocked Editions (Only $10 more than the Regular Edition) & then Bumped up to 850 Core on Air. So they are OC'ed about 10% same as Mitchells I assume ...

ok, here is my Gtx480 with the new long wu's and at stock speeds:

Gtx480 - 700/1848/1401 Mhz - 725 seconds average

Hi Guys,

I've been running a mildly overclocked MSI TI 560 for about 2 weeks now. Its been netting over 400k + p/day. I thought it was a good deal for about $100 bucks cheaper than a 570 based card. I think I'll buy another.

<snip>

If you buy a second one, will you SLI? I'm new to this, so I'm unsure of the pros and cons. I assume that if you SLI, then BOINC will think that you have one card that is roughly twice as fast as before. If you don't SLI, then I assume it looks like you have two cards of standard speed, and can run two GPU tasks in parallel. Anyone please correct me if I'm mistaken about this.

If the above is true, it seems like it would be slightly more efficient to SLI, since there would be one less CPU task running to manage the GPUs.

As a recent 570 purchaser, I have more than a passing interest in this. There's an empty PCIe2.0 slot staring at me :-)
--Gary

Mikey, thanks for your info, even though it wasn't the sunniest news. One aspect I've got covered is the PSU (1000w) and cooling should be okay too. Well, I'll probably spring for another 570 sometime, egged-on by the "top computers" list I see with multiple GPUs. I'll try it both SLI and otherwise; whatever works, and post my experiences at some point. Cheers.

--Gary