On Wednesday 02 March 2016 15:33:27 James wrote: > Peter Humphrey <peter <at> prh.myzen.co.uk> writes: > > It's approaching time to invest in a new system, and I'd like the > > panel's views on which make of graphics card to choose: AMD, nVidia or > > Radeon. Does anyone here have an opinion to offer? > > Perhaps you can define some more parameters as to your budget constraints, > power limitations on the main power supply and exactly > what is your target use of the video (gpu+memory) resources?
Budget seems unlikely to influence choice of graphics card maker. The three I mentioned are all offered by my preferred system builder, Armari. I don't know what you mean about limits to power. You snipped the application area, which as I said is scientific computing using GPUs as well as the CPU. > Noise (dB) restrictions? Air or water cooled? hardware (slot) > availability? I'm just interested in the comparative performance of the three makes of GPU at this stage. I can fill in the rest of the spec once I know which to go for - unless one make is ruled out by excessively noisy coolers or something. Not just the computing power, though: Gentoo support will be important over the life of the system. If the life of this current box is any guide, that could stretch to 10 years. Well, maybe. > New mobo or an upgrade to an existing mobo? It'll be a new system, as I said. > Dual windows booting for windows gaming? etc etc..... I'm not interested in Windows or gaming. Certainly not the kind of rapid-fire games that spotty youths seem to go for. -- Rgds Peter
