AMD Unwraps ATI Radeon HD 4600 Series Graphics Cards in India

[IronManForever]

^^ Point. But then again I do NOT believe that it will amount to anything subsantial ; since the GPU is not exactly optimised for churning out huge Floating Points in those apps.

Its still mainly games or at the most Animation, you'll buy a powerful GPU for. And if thats the case; you most probably have an already powerful CPU. So I do NOT think you would feel alot of difference using CUDA or not using it.

Hence I said that one would actually look for the GPU Core, RAM, Bus Width, Shader support THAN, CUDA or for that matter GPGPU for deciding on a graphics card.

I really do not know the real world benchmarks so I am just speculating. Any help here?

And IF one is concerned about power usage; the new Graphics card coupled with corresponding chipsets provide awesome Power savings when NOT USING its full potential.

 

[gxsaurav]

^^ Point. But then again I do NOT believe that it will amount to anything subsantial ; since the GPU is not exactly optimised for churning out huge Floating Points in those apps.

This is where CUDA & ATI Stream Processor fills in. CUDA is basically a C like Language using which you can write general purpose code which will use the power of your GPU for calculation purpose. Pure calculation wise a GPU is more powerful then a CPU.

Its still mainly games or at the most Animation, you'll buy a powerful GPU for. And if thats the case; you most probably have an already powerful CPU. So I do NOT think you would feel alot of difference using CUDA or not using it.

Have a look at how much CUDA is helping in HPC scenarios.

Hence I said that one would actually look for the GPU Core, RAM, Bus Width, Shader support THAN, CUDA or for that matter GPGPU for deciding on a graphics card.

GPGPU isn't a buying factor for a graphics card, its just an add on which makes day to day work in PC fast. nVidia has a standard API called CUDA so they are in a better position then ATI overall.

 

[IronManForever]

Have a look at how much CUDA is helping in HPC scenarios.

Yeah. Also heard about GTX280 Farms being used for using brute force to break WPA/2 encryption.

Anyways thank you. But at the end of it all; I do realise that it does not make a difference to me for now. Because my work/play does not ask for GPGPU.

 

[comp@ddict]

Bu hu hu hu....I bought a Radeon HD 3650 for Rs 5k in March & in just 7 months Radeon HD 4670 is available for 5K

Dude 7 months is a long time, 7 months ago, 8800GTs were selling for 15k!