RTX 2070 vs. GTX 660TI (experience)
9 Jan 2022 10:13:51 UTC
Topic 226734
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Hello guys!
Just wanted to share some "real life" experience. I've sold my RTX2070 (very high prices right now and I don't really need it) and bought an old GTX 660Ti as replacement.
These are the values from geeks3d.com:
| floating point 32 Bit | floating point 64 Bit | ratio | |
| RTX 2070 | 7465 | 233 | FP64 = 1/32 FP32 |
| GTX 660Ti | 2460 | 102 | FP64 = 1/24 FP32 |
| crunching time per task (three at once for RTX2070, two for 660ti) - Gamma-ray pulsar binary search |
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| RTX 2070 | 253 s | |
| GTX 660Ti | 3332 s |
In most benchmarks the 2070 has about 4x the points of the 660Ti (PassMark for example). In Einstein@home it seems to be more than 10x as fast in crunching! Floating point operations don't seem to show that, either.
Does that make sense or am I wrong at some point? I divided the time a task needed by the number of tasks...
Greetings.
No your calculations are
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No your calculations are mostly correct. In fact the 2070 is 20X more productive than the 660 Ti.
In my opinion you did a dumb thing selling the 2070 for such an outdated card.
Keith Myers schrieb:In my
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Thanks so far, I found it interesting that it's 10x+ better in crunching but only 4x better in Games - not sure why that is. Maybe because with different effects the same amount of fps means more crunching?
I sold it for 2x what I paid in 2021 and I bought it for Flight Simulator play only. If I had unlimited money I'd have kept it ;) When Ethereum enters proof of stake, a lot of people will have to sell their cards and prices will dump again.
Markus Windisch wrote: When
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people have been saying this for like 5 years now lol.
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Ian&Steve C. wrote: Markus
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Same thing with Bitcoin and yet it just keeps going up year over year.
Ian&Steve C. schrieb:people
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I think this year they will finally do it ;) Anyway, the chip shortage won't stay forever.
Bitcoin has nothing to do with Proof of stake and graphics cards :P
FWIW IMHO : Tulips are
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FWIW IMHO : Tulips are merely pretty flowers, sell spades in a gold rush, and the cryptocurrencies will gang aft agley eventually. :-)
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
Mike Hewson schrieb: FWIW
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I'm not able to read your comment properly but I think you compared crypto to tulips. This is what people do for 10 years now and still there's no tulip crash but we'll see. Tbh it's too risky for me
He compared crypto to tulips
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He compared crypto to tulips for a good reason. The Dutch tulip bulb market bubble, also known as 'tulipmania' was one of the most famous market bubbles and crashes of all time.
'Gang aft agley' is Scottish and means 'Often go wrong'. More directly translated: gang = 'to go'; aft = 'oft' (or often); agley = 'askew' ...
Cheers,
Gary.
Thank you Gary, I was a
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Thank you Gary, I was a little obtuse there.
[Aside] The amount of money in cryptos is staggering, the market capitalisation of Bitcoin for example is the best part of a trillion dollars. Recently DownUnda we have had a slew of advertisements offering access to the crypto markets for the small investors. This is a key sign that the big players want to take profit and then walk away, but they need some mug punters to sell to. Another indicator is the rising expectation that prior gains imply future gains - classic bubble psychology. It will be all those little nest eggs in the suburbs that will go frying when the crash comes.[/Aside]
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
Mike Hewson
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Interesting point. I don't see a conspriacy here, though. Crypto ist just becoming more popular. The more people talk about it the more people put money in the system, the more companies advertise their products.
True. But that is also applicable to gold or certain stocks for example. The use case (electronics etc.) doesn't justify it's value. I wouldn't be so sure about a crash in Bitcoin, since people see it as a store of value. Anyway, the risk is far from zero.