For CUDA is the 460 from a 260 a big leap?

[Raycaster]

After reading all the favourable 460 reviews have been wondering about an upgrade. I have an Nvidia 260 (55 I believe) and am confused because of the pricing deals.

This is mainly a 50/50 machine for gaming/3D modelling in which alot of my 3D apps use CUDA directly.

My 260 Maxcore 55 is listed more expensive than a newer Nvidia 460?

Is the 460 worth a $250 leap or wait...

System:

AMD 1090T / 8 G/ WIN 7 64X/ Nvidia 260

Thank you.

 

[Griffolion]

Are you using Apps that require the FP 64 compute function? If so you will need a quaddro card as the GeForce cards ability to do FP64 has been deliberately crippled by 75%. If so you'll need Quaddro for CUDA, or go with ATI if you think you can live without CUDA.

 

[Raycaster]

Thank you for the quick reply.

Truthfully not sure on on FP 64 question.

The CUDA apps all seem to like the 260 with the only need being that video memory is another key.

Luckly Quaddro cards aren't requirred and OpenCL is slowly being adapted but for now CUDA is still king...

 

[Griffolion]

Fair enough. Well any Fermi card will do well in computing Apps (relative to its class) so long as it isn't FP 64. It might be good to check beacuse if it is FP 64 then you might be better off with an ATI card.