New gpu for maya, photoshop etc

[wolfvt13]

Hi.
I need help buying new graphic card primarily for maya zbrush and photoshop.
My budget is about $200, I am chosing between those two cards Radeon HD 7790 and GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost.
I don't want to buy pro graphic cards because my budget is limited and I also want to play some games.
I heard that radeon graphic cards is far better at computing then gtx, maya and photoshop do support opencl but my biggest concern is that maybe in the future I would need some software that is cuda only.

Is it worth hawing more compute power but without cuda?
What do you recommend?

 

[The Alias]

radeon 7xxx is better at compute than the gtx 6xx at compute this round and fewer and fewer programs are cuda only now anyways

 

[Arkadrel]

Did alot of googling on zbrush.
Looks like it uses OpenGL, and mostly its just CPU bound.
Remember to get a buttload of system Ram as well.

GPU brand doesnt matter, for this one (afaik, from googleing).



for Autodesk Maya 2013:

http://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/AutoDesk-Maya-2013-GPU-Acceleration-166/

In this article, we want to explore the performance differences between a wide range of different video cards, including the current generation AMD FirePro, AMD Radeon and NVIDIA GeForce cards that are not on the certified list. In order to do so, we will be using the SPECapc benchmark for Maya 2012 on Maya 2013. ...

^ AMD 7750 beating the nvidia 680 for this test

Think its fair to say this is AMD card program.




and photoshop CS6:

New Photoshop is OpenCL....

so again AMD.

 

[Greenlepricon]

I would go last generation Nvidia to be honest if you think you might need CUDA. You can get a 560ti for around the price of those other two, and cheaper if you watch out for a deal.

 

[Arkadrel]

@Greenlepricon

Non of those programs require CUDA.
And in Maya a 7750 (~90$ card) is beating a nvidia 680.

 

[Greenlepricon]

@Greenlepricon

Non of those programs require CUDA.
And in Maya a 7750 (~90$ card) is beating a nvidia 680.

I realize non of the programs listed use CUDA exclusively, but in his post he stated that he's concerned about needing it in the future

Don't worry I'm not trying to get him to waste money. If it's between the two listed my vote goes towards AMD as well.

 

[tweakboy]

Neither.

660 Ti for 200 or 1k on a quadro take your pick.... , all so it can have ECC ram its a server turned into workstation......

 

[wolfvt13]

Thank, definitely will go with radeon.
Hope more and more programs will start using opencl, because according to benchmarks actual gen amd cards including their pro card are far far better at compute then nvidia. ^_^

 

[NTMBK]

Thank, definitely will go with radeon.
Hope more and more programs will start using opencl, because according to benchmarks actual gen amd cards including their pro card are far far better at compute then nvidia. ^_^

Honestly, it's probably a case that NVidia have shot themselves in the foot a bit. Their OpenCL driver doesn't seem to be very well optimised- the general consensus is that NVidia want developers to compare how CUDA and OpenCL perform on the same (NVidia) card, conclude that CUDA code goes faster, and develop for CUDA. (Every project locked into CUDA is more guaranteed sales for NVidia.) But once AMD got their game together and produced cards with actual decent compute capabilities, things got a bit awkward.

 

[Ajay]

Honestly, it's probably a case that NVidia have shot themselves in the foot a bit. Their OpenCL driver doesn't seem to be very well optimised- the general consensus is that NVidia want developers to compare how CUDA and OpenCL perform on the same (NVidia) card, conclude that CUDA code goes faster, and develop for CUDA. (Every project locked into CUDA is more guaranteed sales for NVidia.) But once AMD got their game together and produced cards with actual decent compute capabilities, things got a bit awkward.

Thus far NV has said that it won't be optimizing OpenCL on Kepler (which is stuck at v 1.1 AFAIK). I suspect that NV will improve OCL support if more developers choose it over CUDA (in professional and consumer markets).

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Last I read, CS6 still uses a CUDA GPGPU pipeline on systems running NV GFX cards.