Re: Any recommendations for new hardware (quadcore/GPUs)?
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- Subject: [mg116927] Re: Any recommendations for new hardware (quadcore/GPUs)?
- From: Yves Klett <yves.klett at googlemail.com>
- Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2011 03:42:16 -0500 (EST)
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um... forgot to explicitly mention that this would be about performance when running Mathematica... Yves Am 03.03.2011 12:00, schrieb Yves Klett: > Hi, > > there are not too many benchmarks for current (especially mobile) > hardware to be found, so perhaps someone can give some information on > their preferred hardware? > > Two things interest me in particular: > a) will a quadcore (i7) offer significantly more performance than a dual > core? Of course this depends on the nature of the task... > > b) Is there any difference between cheaper gaming cards (e.g. NVidia > GTX) versus expensive professional cards (e.g. NVidia Quadro), > especially concerning CUDA/OpenCL? > > Any impressions are welcome. > > Yves >