Yakiimo3D

A picture of my new graphics card.

http://www.geeks3d.com/20100712/nvidia-geforce-gtx-460-specifications-and-reviews-available/
Geeks3D’s article on the GTX 460.

http://developer.nvidia.com/object/nsight.html
I recently learned via Twitter (http://twitter.com/#!/NIV_Anteru/status/30620618055483392) that the Pro edition of NVIDIA’s Parallel Nsight is now free. This news is one reason why I bought a new GTX 460. In order to fully use Parallel Nsight on a single machine though, I need separate graphics card for display and for running CUDA. I was hoping I could use my HD5750 somehow, but using multiple display drivers is not even supported in Vista (http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device/display/multimonVista.mspx), so I don’t think I’m going to get anywhere trying on my Vista system. I’m probably going to buy another CUDA capable graphics card.

http://3dmark.com/3dm11/595018
Ran 3DMark 11 on my new card. As expected, since it came out later, I get a better score than my old HD5750 (http://www.yakiimo3d.com/2010/12/12/3dmark-11/).

Felt a little sad taking out my Radeon HD5750 (http://www.yakiimo3d.com/2009/12/13/my-radeon-hd5750/), which has served me well. The HD5750 cost me around 16,000 yen (w/ current strong yen around $191) and the new GTX 460 cost me around 13,000 yen (around $155). Since I don’t play much PC games, I usually buy inexpensive mid-range graphics cards, so financially, I don’t feel wasteful upgrading after a year. With my new graphics card, I get increased performance, ability to run CUDA samples, ability to run double-precision float programs and try out Parallel Nsight once I get a 2nd graphics card.

(2011/02/13 update)
http://www.yakiimo3d.com/2011/02/13/parallel-nsight-1-51-2/
I ended up trying Parallel Nsight. Seems useful on single GPU systems.

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