Cheapaz Chips 2022 Brainstorming

[Pirat]

GF108 (Fermi) should be interesting. Lots of different cheap cards available with this core.

Edited April 1, 2022 by Pirat

[yosarianilives]

So far from discord I've seen suggestions of gf106 or 108 cards, also on amd side gv710 or similar core and also recommendation of oland or Caicos core. 

Personally I also would like to see more of the small tesla cores in future comps, but next year.

For this year I like the idea of amd, although not Terra scale based as we've had two comps with it and gcn is weirdly expensive. So I'd personally lean towards gv710 (HD 4350 etc) but also open to suggestions

[TheQuentincc]

I believe these core can be used in a cheapaz comp : 

Nvidia :
GF108/GF117 (but it's 40nm vs 28nm)
GK208/GK208B
G92/G92B

AMD : 
Cape Verde
Oland/Mars/Opal

Intel : 
Any HD graphics from a particular generation/socket 

The G92/G92B is hit or miss, sometime price are really crazy and sometime you can get one for really cheap but for all other, there is enough different card/reference to bench, even on laptop (for these, CPU are old and cannot compete with recent one so maybe try to have at least 2/3 bench with GPU score only ?)

Edited April 1, 2022 by TheQuentincc

[Pirat]

RV710 core sounds good to me. 

@TheQuentincc had a look around, cape verde and Oland/Mars/Opal gpu's can get pricy quick, on average 25-45$

Edited April 1, 2022 by Pirat

[saltycroissant]

RV710 would be nice for the voltage scaling on ambient..... 1.7-1.8V

[ShaggySVK]

My 2 cents go towards lowend Fermi/kepler, RV710 will be once again superbound to mem like GT218 and not sure if we want another unicorn competition of whoever finds true GDDR instead gDDR card, only save for gt218 was that GDDR3 cards didnt have enough vram for vantage and being too rare to find.

[yosarianilives]

Yeah not sure, I like the idea of doing amd after nvidia but also needs to be about mods not about eBay hunting

[ShaggySVK]

Makes sense to go with AMD/Ati this time, lets try to find something that's more about mods

[Pirat]

Going too low end leaves room for unicorn cards. 

for ATI/AMD I find one of these options adequate:

RV740 - ATI Radeon HD 4770
Juniper - AMD Radeon HD 6770
Cape Verde
Oland/Mars/Opal

Edited April 2, 2022 by Pirat

[yosarianilives]

So haven't had much feedback, let's go with rv710 core and same benches as last round. Comp should run May 1st to end of June. Let me know if anyone has any problems with this,otherwise we go with this

[Pirat]

will be interesting, RV710 can handle stupid voltages and is easy to vmod

[Guest Digg_de]

https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/ati-rv710.g69
Small List on RV710. Pretty clear what is best card.

[yosarianilives]

Interesting that the 4550 has ddr2 that's clocked higher than all the Ddr3 cards

[Guest Digg_de]

2 hours ago, yosarianilives said:

Interesting that the 4550 has ddr2 that's clocked higher than all the Ddr3 cards

maybe because it is gddr2 vs ddr3?
so confusing.. again. 

[Leeghoofd]

So only RV710 core, no other restrictions gents ?

[yosarianilives]

1 hour ago, Leeghoofd said:

So only RV710 core, no other restrictions gents ?

Same cpu limits as last time, but otherwise only graphics card limit is gv710 core. Not sure if it should be a requirement but at least somewhere should mention its preferred if people show off their mods in rig pic

[Leeghoofd]

K I just talked with the graphics designer, 1st of May there will be a background lads