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Details Regarding Nvidia Geforce GTX 790 Finally Surface – 4992 Cuda Cores and 10 GB of Memory

Kaapstad said:
Having said that if this card ever sees the light of day and it turns out it is good for mining then the Mantle's the limit.:D
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I was thinking the same, with that many shaders it should be a match for the 7990 IF Cudaminer development keeps progressing at it's current rate, as it stands the GTX780 is currently only getting up to 450KH/s when it should be on par with a 280X (historically it's been AMD's higher shader count and OpenCL advantages that's given them the big lead, hence why a HD5870 could beat a GTX680, but the 780/Titan cards have a decent amount so all that's really lacking now is the mining software).
 
ubersonic said:
I was thinking the same, with that many shaders it should be a match for the 7990 IF Cudaminer development keeps progressing at it's current rate, as it stands the GTX780 is currently only getting up to 450KH/s when it should be on par with a 280X (historically it's been AMD's higher shader count and OpenCL advantages that's given them the big lead, hence why a HD5870 could beat a GTX680, but the 780/Titan cards have a decent amount so all that's really lacking now is the mining software).
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450Kh/s is on par with a 7870, a 280X or 7970 is about 700, a 290 about 800. a 7990 about 1300.
 
ubersonic said:
I was thinking the same, with that many shaders it should be a match for the 7990 IF Cudaminer development keeps progressing at it's current rate, as it stands the GTX780 is currently only getting up to 450KH/s when it should be on par with a 280X (historically it's been AMD's higher shader count and OpenCL advantages that's given them the big lead, hence why a HD5870 could beat a GTX680, but the 780/Titan cards have a decent amount so all that's really lacking now is the mining software).
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Wasn't really the shader count - the 5th shader unit on the older architecture was rarely used even with compute (though having lots of simplistic shaders helps with this kind of workload over a smaller number of more complex ones). AMD's and nVidia's architectures are better at handling different types of processing - AMD's happens to be better suited to this sort of thing especially with its better support for stuff like Instruction Level Parallelism - which isn't so useful for gaming workloads but is more useful for stuff like mining (though potentially quite useful for physics).
 
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My card (GTX 670 PE OC) should hold its head firmly for another year or more, but boy do I want to upgrade to a 780, and now a 790 gets rumored. *head explodes*

Edit: Not sure how Nvidia decides there pricing, but would this shunt the 770/780 etc prices down a tad..? or does it not work that way?
 
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