Neil Brassington wrote:davidanderson wrote:The 1060 15% figure is for DirectX games, not for compute. It will be considerably slower on Resolve than the 1080, 1070 and RX480.
CUDA is not necessary for Resolve, it uses either OpenCL *or* CUDA.
12.5 uses more GPU RAM than 11 did, I can't really say what difference you would get between 6GB and 8GB except the obvious that you would run out of RAM earlier on the 1060 than the 480, but for HD, either probably has enough RAM.
NVidia are currently having some driver issues with the series 10 cards, with video playback sometimes stuttering.
https://forums.geforce.com/default/topi ... ttering/1/I have no skin in either camp, we were looking to replace our Titan X cards with 1080s until the RX480 came out, but we have gone with Dual 480s in the Resolve stations with no issues so far.
And you know it will be considerably slower than the RX480 for compute.... HOW? Honestly I have only ever seen your candle test for RX480 and I'm not really buying it until I see some other users results.
How? Because we now have in house the Titan X, the 1070 and the RX480. The 480 is faster in resolve than the 1070, and the 1060 will be slower than the 1070, so it stands to reason that the GTX-1060 will be considerably slower than the RX480. I don't mind if you 'buy it' or not, I'm not selling anything, just sharing results.
How is the 480 faster despite having a bit less raw TFlops performance? My guess is that the OpenCL performance is way better tuned than NVidia's CUDA performance.
It comes down to the software you are using. You can put 3 x RX480 cards in your Resolve workstation for the cost of a single 1080 card and get approximately 3x the performance for the same money.
We are still buying NVidia cards for our CUDA only programs and DX11 programs, but for our OpenCL programs, the 480 is outperforming the Nvidia cards, so we are putting RX480s in those workstations.
For example, in Solidworks and CATIA, the RX480 is outperforming the GTX cards, in AutoCAD and Maya, the GTX cards are outperforming the RX480.
It comes down to the performance in the software you use, no point buying a card that is super fast in AutoCAD if you are a CATIA user, and vice versa.
For Resolve, the 480 currently gives incredible bang for buck, you can throw a pair in your machine and be running over twice as fast as a Titan, for half the price, which is fantastic. Hopefully the 490 will come out this year and keep pressure on Nvidia and we will see better pricing and performance from both companies coming down the line.