Adobe CS5: 64-bit, CUDA-Accelerated, And Threaded Performance

[kg2010]

You know, the supercuda?!
The extra special feature in every Radeon card that's been locked far away in a vault beneath the cooling fan, where you open it and a magical golden chip pops out that lets you solder it onto the card anywhere and give it Super rendering/gaming powers...oh yea and it lets you fly.

I knew it! Not only does it let you fly - but it will even cook and clean for you too, and won't complain in the process.

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It's nice to see efforts from scientiific computing making their way into more common uses. But the top of the line hardware ($1K processor, +$500 graphics cards, 12 GB of RAM, SDD drives, etc.) is a barrier to broader adoption. It would be nice to see another cost/benefit evaluation with a "home" configuration, especially cheaper GPU since, I suspect, GPU communication is a potential bottleneck.

The 980x is the fastest processor on the planet right now, but quite frankly, if I were building my computer today, I'd get an i7 950 ( $300 ) and overclock that to 4.0 GHZ, spend $200 on a mobo ( ud3r ) 12 GB would be around $260, get a GTX 470 for $260, $100 PSU, and another $100 or so on the case, $79 for the Samsung F1 1TB, that right there is a pretty powerful computer for under $1500! ( $1700 with an SSD )

If you can afford it - add an 80GB SSD as your boot drive for $200 - it does make a HUGE difference - Photoshop and Premiere open in 2 - 4 seconds, Windows loads in about 20 seconds, and it does make for a better overall experience.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820167031&cm_re=X25-_-20-167-031-_-Product

Here's the link to the RAM that is $155 per 6GB - I currently run this ram with 7-7-7-20 timings, and it's very solid.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227365&Tpk=OCZ3G1600LV6GK

I'm personally getting another 6GB of RAM, and I'm ordering this MSI N470GTX Twin Frozr II next week, and we'll see what kind of performance gains it offers over my current 460.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127513&cm_re=gtx_470-_-14-127-513-_-Product

It's important to note the way Premiere and CS5 operates now, they take a lot of the stress off the CPU, and balance it well with the GPU, so you really don't need the 980x.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sylAonfVp9k
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrE9vXUfgvs

 

[dalta centauri]

I knew it! Not only does it let you fly - but it will even cook and clean for you too, and won't complain in the process.

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On another note - the 980x is the fastest processor on the planet right now, but quite frankly, if I were building my computer today, I'd get an i7 950 ( $300 ) and overclock that to 4.0 GHZ, spend $200 on a mobo ( ud3r ) 12 GB would be around $260, get a GTX 470 for $260, $100 PSU, and another $100 or so on the case, $79 for the Samsung F1 1TB, that right there is a pretty powerful computer for under $1500! ( $1700 with an SSD )

If you can afford it - add an 80GB SSD as your boot drive for $200 - it does make a HUGE difference - Photoshop and Premiere open in 2 - 4 seconds, Windows loads in about 20 seconds, and it does make for a better overall experience.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820167031&cm_re=X25-_-20-167-031-_-Product

Just wait when we get a review just like that on Newegg for a 6000 series card because someone took this serious ;D

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Of course, I like this SSD and it's not that much different in price although you get twice the capacity.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227543&cm_re=120gb_ssd-_-20-227-543-_-Product

 

[kg2010]

Of course, I like this SSD and it's not that much different in price although you get twice the capacity.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227543&cm_re=120gb_ssd-_-20-227-543-_-Product

well 120 GB is not twice the capacity - it's 50% more - that Agility version looks pretty good with these numbers

Sequential Access - Read: up to 285MB/s
Sequential Access - Write: up to 275MB/s

Some reviews for it aren't very positive though, I did consider this and a vertex, but decided to go with the X25 as Intel has sorted out a lot of issues with it, and I'm sure OCZ should've worked out theirs by now, since the firmware they originally shipped with only did 40 MB/s writes for some.

The Intel x25-m has received very positive overall feedback and reviews, and it's one of the better choices for SSD drives, just read all the reviews here:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820167023&cm_re=x25-m-_-20-167-023-_-Product

You're not going to use your SSD drive for storage, it will be used for Windows and some of your most widely used software like Office, Photoshop & Premiere. so it will be mostly reading, not writing, I still have over 30 GB's available on mine, and I hardly install anything else on it, but that's just me

 

[Guest]

Better use Winfast PxVC1100 or FireCoder Blu.

 

[kg2010]

now that the 580 is out, it seems that the compute performance is still in place, can you confirm that?

Plus, it seems like there will be a GTX 570 out by the end of the year, which should match the performance of the current 480 with better cooling and temps, as well as a more attractive price.

http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=27478

I may hold out on getting a 470, as I just ordered 1 last night, but can still cancel the order.

I ordered this:
http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127513

 

[kleb_go]

CUDA vs SpursEngine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stoBBi6ko8Y

 

[youssef 2010]

[citation][nom]wh3resmycar[/nom]ati gave up on stream.[/citation]

because Nvidia's CUDA pretty much dominated the market at the time ATI wanted to debut stream. But its still good for encoding videos in CCC

 

[youssef 2010]

[citation][nom]article[/nom]Interestingly, Chris noted that “in CS4, we got our best results having all cores working on each frame,” meaning that having multiprocessing disabled yielded faster performance. That was not the case here. In all instances, using multiprocessing yielded much faster results, and the more threads we used, the wider that performance gap became. [/citation]

As Chris mentioned before, the more threads he used on his dual socket machine, the less memory each thread had access to because CS4 couldn't manage 24 threads properly. But clearly, it can manage 12 threads when the memory per thread is increased