AMD vs Nvid

Hey Tom - AMD is the new king in town - the 7950 is probably the best bang for the buck - my kids 7850 crushes my 670 by about 40Kppd....so I stole her machine as the main folding rig while she's at school
 
Gardella said:
Hey Tom - AMD is the new king in town - the 7950 is probably the best bang for the buck - my kids 7850 crushes my 670 by about 40Kppd....so I stole her machine as the main folding rig while she's at school
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So the 7970 or obviously the identical 280X would be pretty epic then?
 
I read the thread title, saw the OP, and my brain exploded. Me no understand! What is the madman cooking up I wonder.

I echo the bang/buck sentiment for the 7950. In Canada, the 7970 was $75-100 more (depending on brand / bundle / etc) before the recent price chops. At the price I bought mine ($300CDN each), that's a 25%-33% price bump, but nowhere near the same level of performance improvement.
 
More the fact I need to use current kit so it may well end up being 280X's if they beat the 770 in pure PPD?
 
Oops, my bad, didn't realize what forum this was in. I clicked it from the "recent threads" list on the main page. I am folding-illiterate. :banghead:
 
The Titan is king ATM, followed by the 780 GTX. The 7970 and 7950 fall in behind the top Nvidia cards, but the AMD cards are alot better performers when comparing PPD/$
 
My 7950s seem to sit at about 75k PPD whereas my 680 varies a lot. Sometimes it's pulling 100k PPD, other times it's at 20k PPD.

My SMP clients have nose dived. They used to pull in 100k PPD+ and now are 12k-20k.

Can't wait to see how AMDs new cards fair, but more hoping that current cards drop in price.
 
I thought there were three levels to look at. First the price of it, then the PPD and third the wattage consumption.

I thought that an overclocked 7970 is king of the hill
 
It really depresses me to look at these numbers. I put a fortune into my server which now more and more is getting beat. And it's merely a year old. Ok, over the last year it folded about 130 million points, which is great, but it annoys me that I cannot sell it anymore.

At least the overclock seems to be stable now, which means I should be pretty close to 700k PPD and become the top producer for the team, but it's still depressing to know that with a hand full of these cards you can compete with my server.

And to make things worse: an Asus board with two E5-2697 v2 CPUs is now stock just as fast as my server and uses only half the wattage!

I never thought I would get stuck with this server... :(
 
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