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Oh God, more to think about! I feel a GTX570 vs GTX480 thread coming on! (not)

Bluntwood, Why would you take the GTX480 over the 570? You say the 570 is newer... the number of cores at 480 are the same, is it just down to the bit of extra memory?
 
The GTX570 is essentially a newer revision of the GTX480 but with less VRAM, slimmer bandwidth and a slightly higher stock core clock - 732Mhz vs 700Mhz (this clock speed can be matched at stock voltage on the GTX480, so in no way is the GTX570 any quicker). Power consumption/heat will be slightly less on the GTX570 but will be barely noticeable in comparison to the 480 (around 50w difference under load - less than what it costs to run a light bulb!). For the price IMO the GTX480 is the better buy. More VRAM and with that Gigabyte cooler you may have a little more headroom for tweaking/overclocking (if you decide to do this at a later date). What monitor/res are you planning on running with your new card?
 
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You may already be aware of this but if not then here's a quick note on Adobe Premiere Pro support for GeForce cards.

The GTX570 and 580 will work fine out of the box as they are both on the supported card's list.

The GtX480, 560, 670 and 680 are not currently on the supported list but can be added on your PC with an easy hack (its basically adding the name of the card to a txt file on your PC).

Easy to follow instructions are here:

http://www.studio1productions.com/Articles/PremiereCS5-2.htm
 
The monitors I shall be using are a dell U2410 and a secondary generic 20" benq.

Video editing wise I use Sony Vegas. I believe Sony tested the 570 with their GPU acceleration and it came out very favourably. Don't think the 480 was on their test list. The only adobe product I'll be using is photoshop.
 
I'm running a Dell U2410 myself and a 40" TV as a secondary screen. The Dell @1920x1200 would benefit from the additional VRAM on the GTX480. The GTX570 would be better suited to a 1920x1080 resolution. Obviously both will be fine for general desktop/application use. If you like to play games or wish to leave your options open to play games in the future then the GTX480 is the one to have. If you don't plan on playing games the GTX570 will be fine for what you need.

IMO you might as well get the GTX480, it'll leave you with more options either way.. and it's cheaper than the GTX570 :)
 
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I'm running a Dell U2410 myself and a 40" TV as a secondary screen. The Dell @1920x1200 would benefit from the additional VRAM on the GTX480. The GTX570 would be better suited to a 1920x1080 resolution. Obviously both will be fine for general desktop/application use. If you like to play games or wish to leave your options open to play games in the future then the GTX480 is the one to have. If you don't plan on playing games the GTX570 will be fine for what you need.

IMO you might as well get the GTX480, it'll leave you with more options either way.. and it's cheaper than the GTX570 :)
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For some reason, perhaps being that Sony have actually tested the 570 with vegas, I am drawn to it, plus it being newer and all.

I'm not sure I will play games on the machine, I haven't for the last 34 years and have a PS3 I hardly use for games!

Why does the U2410 with the 1920x1200 benefit from the 480's extra vram?
 
Imho Nvidia has cut cuda cores in her new generation GPUs, so the old generation is several time faster in calculations. Like 580 is 3 times faster than 680.

As soon as photoshop supports opencl, AMD will be the way to go. As they are miles ahead in GPGPU speed.
 
Here's a list of CUDA enabled GPUs:

http://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-gpus

Taken directly from the Sony Vegas website (right hand side of the page):

NVIDIA
Requires a CUDA-enabled GPU and driver 270.xx or later. GeForce GPUs:
GeForce GTX 4xx Series or higher (or GeForce GT 2xx Series or higher with driver 285.62 or later).
Quadro GPUs: Quadro 600 or higher (or Quadro FX 1700 or higher with driver 285.62 or later).
NVIDIA recommends NVIDIA Quadro for professional applications and recommends use of the latest boards based on the Fermi architecture.

If you're not playing games then you'll probably not see much benefit (unless VRAM for GPU rendering matters) but the extra VRAM will give you more options at your 1920x1200 res. BF3 for example will use more than 1400mb VRAM at 1920x1200 with a mix of graphics settings. At this point the GTX570 would be starved of VRAM and you'd end up getting horribly choppy and stuttering frame rates. A quick Google will show how much the topic has been discussed lately.

The GTX480 consumes slightly more power but it's 'beefier' than it's younger brother + it's cheaper. Seems like a bit of a no brainer :cool:
 
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OpenCL-based Photoshop CS6, GIMP, AfterShot Pro, And Musemage benched

sand_dune said:
Imho Nvidia has cut cuda cores in her new generation GPUs, so the old generation is several time faster in calculations. Like 580 is 3 times faster than 680.

As soon as photoshop supports opencl, AMD will be the way to go. As they are miles ahead in GPGPU speed.
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http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/photoshop-cs6-gimp-aftershot-pro,3208-6.html

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18412734
 
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