For my money, 2 780ti's is a better bet than 1 Titan. But a Titan is around $1k and a 780ti is $730.
Though they should be releasing more Maxwell based architecture soon, right? The GTX 750 is the first Maxwell card. On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 1:35 PM, Leoung O'Young <[email protected]>wrote: > I have 4 workstations that I can put a titan in but not sure about > multiple titans since the power supply supply and the motherboard may not > handle it. > The titan is twice the price of a 770/780, is it better to have 1 titan or > 2x770/780? Sorry if this have been asked before. > > > On 23/03/2014 1:08 PM, Paul Griswold wrote: > > The performance isn't a 1:1 gain, but it's still better to have > multi-GPUs than not since licensing isn't based on the number of GPUs, but > on the number of physical machines. It's much more cost-effective to put 4 > GPUs in a single machine than spend the money on 4 machines with a single > GPU per machine. > > -Paul > > > > On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 12:40 PM, Leoung O'Young <[email protected]>wrote: > >> We are interested in Redshift too, just wondering what is the performance >> different between having 2 titan in one machine vs 2 machines with 1 titan >> each? >> >> >> >> On 23/03/2014 12:05 AM, Ed Manning wrote: >> >>> On the economic advantages of redshift or other gpu renderers. >>> >>> My current workstations are Mac Pro 3.1s which are left over from the >>> company I shut down in 2009 (bootcamped into Windows). Essentially >>> worthless from a CPU standpoint. Putting a single $1000 titan gpu into one >>> of them makes it more efficient at rendering than any modern 16-core $8,000 >>> workstation running any CPU ray tracer. Putting 2 titans in them is like >>> having my old 162-core blade server renderfarm without the $5000/month >>> electric bill. Not to mention all the IT overhead and license costs. >>> >>> I have never seen a single piece of software (in concert with the >>> astonishing graphics hardware that is now so cheap and still getting >>> cheaper) have such a cost-reducing impact. >>> >>> Plus they are fanatically hard workers and great communicators. >>> >> >> > >
