Julien Cornebise wrote: > Bought a few months ago a random graphic card based on GTX 480, works > very well, available in any PC store in the street -- easier than > buying an older generation one (e.g. GTX 280, much mentioned in > tutorials but harder to find and slower) > > See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeForce_400_Series for a comparison > of the models in the series. Basic number to look at is the first one > in the triple in column "Config core": it is the number of shaders, > aka "cuda cores". > > Caution: don't forget that you may need a stronger power supply than > standardly shipped in your computer: minimum 500 or 550 Watts (depend > on the GPU model). Bringing back the GPU only to find the lack of > power supply was like one of those Christmases when you open a > wonder-toy that the batteries are not included and that all the stores > are closed for the week-end ;) > > Hope this helps, enjoy the shopping. > > Julien >
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeForce_400_Series says: "In the more expensive "Tesla" configurations, the chip features optional ECC protection on the memory, and can perform one double-precision floating- point operation per cycle per core; the consumer GeForce cards are artificially driver restricted to one DP operation per four cycles. " So, if I want double-precision float performance, what are my choices? _______________________________________________ PyCUDA mailing list PyCUDA@tiker.net http://lists.tiker.net/listinfo/pycuda
