ATI Streams Open CL vs. NVidia Cuda for GPU accelerated tasks

belezeebub

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Okay seeing the different is so tiny in gaming performance what about in GPU accelerated tasks
Video Processing? Rendering? Other?

I do a lot of video work at home and I think as time goes on more and more applications will be written to take advantage of GPU processing I also do folding/Seti and I am considering doing some bitcoin mining.

I am looking for some hard info that cna sway me toward the 670 or the 7970 in 1080 gaming they are so close I can't make up my mind, it seems to me Nvidia pushes their GPUCPU harder but that doesn't make it better in the long run.


BitCoin Mining I know AMD wins

Folding I am pretty sure the Nvidia 5XX has a slight edge (haven't seen good folding #'s from a 6XX yet it seems the folding software doesn't fully support it yet)

If they created an app for oh I say looking for Dup Jpg or MP3 I can see where GPUCPU could speed that up or searching large databases


 

The 6xx's are supported by F@H and return slightly more points than the 5xx series, still more than an AMD GPU gets though.
 

belezeebub

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My Mistake everytime I search in Google (including less then 1 hour ago) the top searches are all about how to get the 680 to fold, how the 680 folds like a 570 and how to work around lack of client support for the 680 some even dated as little close as aug of this year.
 

S'alright, I'm folding with a pair of 660Ti's and a pair of 560Ti's and have had a few "issues" with the v7 client so whilst I know it does work I can also understand why some might think it doesn't.
 

kitsunestarwind

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Depending what your doing depends on whats best

OpenCL through Adobe CS6, AMD is king here, get excellent performance through OpenCL, can be a little difficult to get working on some configs (reported by some users of CS6) but other wise fantastic