Buy a G200 gpu now or wait?

[sarge78]

Hi,
My old 8600gt has finally given up the ghost and I need to replace it with a similar cuda based card.
The new G200 chips sound perfect due to double precision support, massively increased register count etc.

So I?m thinking of doing one of the two things.

Just buy a 260 now.
or
Get a ?25 8400gs ?stopgap? until prices come down and the 55nm refresh arrives?

Is it worth waiting in this current climate?

Oh and its only going to be used for cuda GPGPU? no games. I?ve got a 4850 for that

Thanks.
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[Strife212]

The 260 will be so much faster at CUDA than the 8600GT its not even funny, perhaps 4-5 times faster.

It is also faster than the 4850 at gaming just incase you do want to do any

 

[reflux]

Lol, this is what marketing does to people. There really isn't any point in buying a seperate card for CUDA apps right now - what there is barely worth using at all and there are no benchmarks or reviews of how a second card could speed up your system.

If you're not happy with your 4850, just buy a 260 and sell the 4850.

 

[ACESHIGH]

Lol, this is what marketing does to people. There really isn't any point in buying a seperate card for CUDA apps right now - what there is barely worth using at all and there are no benchmarks or reviews of how a second card could speed up your system.

2nded, why buy a card for CUDA now? I see no real point to it.

 

[drunkenmaster]

Because maybe he does some work, using the Cuda platform?

the 260 would be the card to get the 280 is just massively overpriced, any new fancy supercard from Nvidia sounds like to simply be 2x 260/280 cores on a card in GX2 style, will be fairly surprising to most if they pull a cat out the bag for something before their proper next gen stuff on 45nm early/mid next year.

Expect them to milk all the cash they can out of any GX2 or super card anyone putting it squarely in the rip off zone which still leaves you the 260 as the only decent price/performance ratio card in the range till next april/may so really if you need one get one now and get as much use out of it as you can. Prices are also looking to be heading up, though the US economy might stablise a touch and our economy and bring prices back down, who knows tbh.

 

[sarge78]

Yeah its a cuda devbox/workstation used for GIS, probabistic modeling and such.
I dont mind running a slow card for the time being but need a device to run the software

Think the 280's are expensive? Check out the Telsa C1060 (basically a 280 with 4gb of gddr3) they could be going for ?1000!!
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[reflux]

Yeah its a cuda devbox/workstation used for GIS, probabistic modeling and such.
I dont mind running a slow card for the time being but need a device to run the software

Think the 280's are expensive? Check out the Telsa C1060 (basically a 280 with 4gb of gddr3) they could be going for £1000!!

Ah ha, my apologies. A 260 sounds right up your street then!