Open CL vs CUDA

[GeekaWhat]

I'll be building an X99 build with 32GB of DDR4, a 5820K with Dark Rock Pro 3 cooler, 4 6TB WD Red drives in RAID 5, 1 256GB  850 EVO as my boot drive and 2 500GB 840 EVOs which I happen to have lying around in RAID 0 for a fast drive in which to edit and capture 4K onto. I am wondering from a value perspective what difference (in premiere, media encder and after effects) a GTX 960 would make in comparison to a GTX 970 and GTX 980 and what difference a R9 380 would make in comparison to a R9 390 or R9 390X  for rendering times

 

Thanks, 

James 

 

[CyberneticTitan]

The Adobe Suite is mostly CPU-based, so try to dump money into something like a 5930k. You can't go wrong either way. CUDA does support 3D RayTracing if you're into that.

 

However the game changes when you bring GPU accelerated plugins into the mix.

[Jacktastic-Mofo]

What's the total system budget? 

[don_svetlio]

It largely depends on the software and cards. Looking at Maxwell - I can already tell you it will be less powerful than Kepler or GCN simply because the lesser amount of sheer hardware on the PCB.

When OpenCL is properly supported - as with Sony Vegas - GCN just steamrolls over GM and GK cards. Hence why AMD were the ones used for bitcoin mining - their cards have much better compute potential currently.

If only CUDA is supported then a Kepler-based GK200 chip is what you want for speed - Titan, 780, Titan Black, 780 Ti - those are the best options for CUDA and doing actual work.

[GeekaWhat]

It largely depends on the software and cards. Looking at Maxwell - I can already tell you it will be less powerful than Kepler or GCN simply because the lesser amount of sheer hardware on the PCB.

When OpenCL is properly supported - as with Sony Vegas - GCN just steamrolls over GM and GK cards. Hence why AMD were the ones used for bitcoin mining - their cards have much better compute potential currently.

If only CUDA is supported then a Kepler-based GK200 chip is what you want for speed - Titan, 780, Titan Black, 780 Ti - those are the best options for CUDA and doing actual work.

 

So in your opinions would you say AMD is a much better value option/