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Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 23:51:29 -0700
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Subject: [OT]: Please tell me why not to get a AMD Radeon 7970
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I'm about to purchase a custom-build PC and am trying to decide on a
graphics card. I want something that works well for AE and Cinema 4D. It
seems that both these apps rely primarily on the CPU, and very little on
the GPU. All things being equal, I thought I would go with the Nvidia card
because it supports the CS6 raytracing. But a guy on a forum is -quite-
emphatic that I should get this Radeon card. Can explain to me why he's
wrong?

our conversation went as follows:
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RALPH: Buddy. The 670 is not a good card for workstations. NVidia basically
crippled the cuda performance on the 6xx line to make it better for gaming.
Get a 7970 instead, it has *way* more compute power.

ME: I want to go with the Nvidia because Radeon isn't fully supported by
this program I use (After Effects.) Also, someone pointed out to me that
most of my concern should be the wait time on *software* rendering, so in
my case it's more about the CPU. Anyhow it was helpful to know about the
difference between the GTX 6xx so I'll probably get a 5xx model.

RALPH: That's only mostly untrue. From Adobe's system requirements
page<http://www.adobe.com/products/aftereffects/tech-specs.html>,
it says only that AMD cards don't support GPU acceleration, an unnecessary
function. Past that, you will get more power out of the 7970 as the CUDA
cores are nearly non-existant on the 6xx line, and the compute power on the
5xx line isn't close to the 7970's.
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