GTX 1070 8gb review

[diep]

Originally Posted by Mark Rose

I'm really torn about which card to get.

The 1060 uses 80% of the power of the RX 480 and performs better, especially OpenGL, which matters to me. That 20 watts per year will pay for the difference in price in a couple of years.

On the other hand, AMD is doing great work with their drivers, open-sourcing almost everything and getting them integrated into the kernel, and I want to support that.

I bought 2 weeks ago a GTX580 for 30 euro for my internet computer.

Unbeatable price/performance unless when you want it to TF/sieve 24/24 for years to come.

Latest and newest cards are always too expensive.

However if you wanna pick a card. Why not get a titan that's having 1/3 fp64 as well? Gives you in future option to also run FFT fast on it when someone has built a more efficient CUDA-LLR :)

Be warned that not all Titan's are having the fp64 at 1/3 of the cuda cores. Titan X especially seems to be lobotomized there - but i'm no expert there.

[Mark Rose]

Originally Posted by diep

I bought 2 weeks ago a GTX580 for 30 euro for my internet computer.

Unbeatable price/performance unless when you want it to TF/sieve 24/24 for years to come.

Yep, I have three GTX 580 doing TF outside of office hours. Free electricity makes that a no-brainer. We'll be moving offices soon, and I don't know if we'll have free electricity at the new place; if I don't, I'll have to discontinue.

But if we keep getting free electricity, I might just buy more lol

However if you wanna pick a card. Why not get a titan that's having 1/3 fp64 as well? Gives you in future option to also run FFT fast on it when someone has built a more efficient CUDA-LLR :)

Be warned that not all Titan's are having the fp64 at 1/3 of the cuda cores. Titan X especially seems to be lobotomized there - but i'm no expert there.

I'm looking at getting three cards I can run X-Plane 10 and other Linux games, and that requires good OpenGL performance. When not in use they could do TF or maybe LL.

[firejuggler]

1060 review
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...scal,4679.html

so, around 980 (85-90%) performance, and 120 watt consumption.

[Gordon]

Originally Posted by diep

I bought 2 weeks ago a GTX580 for 30 euro for my internet computer.

Unbeatable price/performance unless when you want it to TF/sieve 24/24 for years to come.

Latest and newest cards are always too expensive.

However if you wanna pick a card. Why not get a titan that's having 1/3 fp64 as well? Gives you in future option to also run FFT fast on it when someone has built a more efficient CUDA-LLR :)

Be warned that not all Titan's are having the fp64 at 1/3 of the cuda cores. Titan X especially seems to be lobotomized there - but i'm no expert there.

GTX-580 same performance as my GTX-970 but the 580 uses 70% more power and sounds like a jet aircraft at takeoff.....

...all that electricity - an extra 100W - soon adds up to a LOT of money...

[Mark Rose]

Indeed. I figure I've spent over 6 MWh TF'ing on GTX 580's.

[cseizert]

I've got a 1070 and a 1080 and can run some tests if someone is curious about their performance.

Curtis

[storm5510]

Originally Posted by Mark Rose

Indeed. I figure I've spent over 6 MWh TF'ing on GTX 580's.

Wow! That's a lot of juice. Where I live, that would be a $700 electric bill. I think perhaps I should check out my own usage. I have a gadget that can be plugged into an outlet which other devices can be plugged into it. It display kWH, Amps, Watts, and so on. I would rather not get a surprise from my energy provider. Of course, what I'm running is not nearly as powerful as this. I'd still like to know what its pulling.

[ATH]

Originally Posted by storm5510

Wow! That's a lot of juice. Where I live, that would be a $700 electric bill.

Where I live that would be ~ $1900

[xilman]

Originally Posted by storm5510

Where I live, that would be a $700 electric bill.

Where I live that would be a $700 reduction in my gas central heating bill.

Actually, it wouldn't but you get the general idea.

[VBCurtis]

Originally Posted by storm5510

Wow! That's a lot of juice. Where I live, that would be a $700 electric bill.
I would rather not get a surprise from my energy provider.

$25/month spread over 3+ years is indeed $700+. Sounds like a pretty reasonable estimate of one of the costs of this hobby. The cost at least doubles during AC season, as you must also pay to remove the heat generated by the computations; in winter the heat is quite useful. Many of us shut down our non-reallife-use machines in summer for this reason.

[xilman]

Originally Posted by VBCurtis

The cost at least doubles during AC season

AC? What's that? Alternating current? Can't be actinium because that's Ac and, anyway, context would appear to rule it out.

Some of us live in the sub-arctic ...