Cuda core performance boost for gaming?

[Alexbaws159]

All in the title. I saw older graphics card specs of Nvidia's series and they didn't used to have CUDA cores and there's no video that shows the impact of this technology , probably a that we can't disable . I would want to know if it gives a big boost on performence for gaming , encoding video or both. 

 

Sorry if bad english.

[Ansuex]

Interesting question! I think the CUDA cores make a huge impact on performance since they allow for parallel calculations... but how much this impact actually is.. I have no clue? 

[NelizMastr]

Nvidia uses the Cuda core name for what was previously known as stream processors. A unified processing unit that combines both pixel pipelines and shaders wich used to be separate components (this applies to cards from 2006 and older, pre-DX10). 

 

It's basically just a name. CUDA itself is also a technology Nvidia uses for compute, which does aid video encoding and rendering in applications that support it. It's not aimed at gaming.

[Alexbaws159]

11 minutes ago, NelizMastr said:

Nvidia uses the Cuda core name for what was previously known as stream processors. A unified processing unit that combines both pixel pipelines and shaders wich used to be separate components (this applies to cards from 2006 and older, pre-DX10). 

 

It's basically just a name. CUDA itself is also a technology Nvidia uses for compute, which does aid video encoding and rendering in applications that support it. It's not aimed at gaming.

Then the clock is to priorize for gaming. But what about tensor cores? 

[NelizMastr]

3 minutes ago, Alexbaws159 said:

Then the clock is to priorize for gaming. But what about tensor cores? 

Machine learning.

[Alexbaws159]

3 minutes ago, NelizMastr said:

Machine learning.

What do you mean?

[Crunchy Dragon]

1 minute ago, Alexbaws159 said:

What do you mean?

Things like AI and deep learning.

 

Science Studio said in his video that higher Cuda cores don't usually increase gaming performance:

 

[tikker]

3 minutes ago, Alexbaws159 said:

What do you mean?

Machine learning involves a lot of matrix math, which tensor cores are good at.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47335027/what-is-the-difference-between-cuda-vs-tensor-cores

 

[Alexbaws159]

28 minutes ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

Things like AI and deep learning.

 

Science Studio said in his video that higher Cuda cores don't usually increase gaming performance:

 

If I just wanna play video games and nothing more , than theres no use to buy from Nvidia so I should go AMD ? If I am right , AMD is only aiming gaming experience then the price/performence will be better right?

[Crunchy Dragon]

4 minutes ago, Alexbaws159 said:

If I just wanna play video games and nothing more , than theres no use to buy from Nvidia so I should go AMD ? If I am right , AMD is only aiming gaming experience then the price/performence will be better right?

If AMD only aimed for gaming, then price/performance would be better.

 

As it is, AMD's cards aren't the best price/performance except in the lower end.