Using a laptop to do any sort of GPU-based work other than gaming is a really bad idea. You're better off doing this sort of work on a desktop. Also a 6990M GPU is considered last-generation so you're going to run into performance bottlenecks.
On 06/04/2014 12:35 PM, Malak Leman wrote: > Hi, I have an opportunity to purchase a laptop equipped with a 6990M GPU. > > Since mobile Radeon counterparts don't support double precision compute i > have some questions (personal experiences with this card are welcome) : > - is it compatible with Kraken ? > > - in term of performance, is the missing "double precision" a problem ? > > - is it still widely competitive with a CPU (core i7) ? > > It seems to use the same "Barts" core than 6790, 6850 and 6870 desktop GPUs, > and the only report here about strange results with a 6850 was kind of > troublesome : https://lists.srlabs.de/pipermail/a51/2011-May/001122.html > > Since a laptop can't get a dedicated SATA card and an array of disks, what > kind of performance per burst can be expected with this GPU and 2 x 1Tb SSD ? > > Cheers, > Malak > > _______________________________________________ > A51 mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.srlabs.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/a51 > _______________________________________________ A51 mailing list [email protected] https://lists.srlabs.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/a51
