We wrote about Cost-effective video cards recently, but what about better ones, if the prise does not really matter? Just read Best Of The Best: High-End Graphics Card Roundup at Tom’s Hardware. Large. Expensive. Power-consuming. But really fast — so best choice if you deal with GPU acceleration.
Btw, don’t forget to get a good coller for your new card — like this one.
Considering a (new) AMD/ATI or NVIDIA video card for password cracking with Wireless Security Auditor or Distributed Password Recovery (to get the most from GPU acceleration technology — at an affordable price)? Read the Best Graphics Cards For The Money: May ’09 at Tom’s Hardware. I especially like the Graphics Card Hierarchy Chart.
Tom’s Hardware has tested two mainstream NVIDIA cards (GeForce 9600 GT and GeForce 9800 GTX) on several CUDA-enabled applications. The applications were:
AMD has hit another megahertz milestone record today. In fact, this is ATI Radeon HD 4890 card, overclocked to 1 GHz at the factory (normally, it runs at 850 MHz); surprisingly, air cooled (I thought that water cooling would be needed).
Water cooling, liquid nitrogen, and dry ice - which gets the most of your ATI Radeon HD 4890 graphics card? Learn it from Zac O’Vadka today’s post.
The only our product that works with ATI cards (right now) is Wireless Security Auditor, but interesting news anyway: ATI Radeon HD 4770 Info Leaked. I’ll second the editor’s opinion that it will make a good competition to NVIDIA’a 9800GT (of course, supported by EWSA, too).
Even more news from AMD/ATI: AMD Athlon X2 7850 & Phenom II X4 955 are coming. Though according to our tests (e.g. with Advanced Office Password Breaker that supoorts up to 32 processors/cores; btw, it has been updated today), multi-core AMD chips are still slower than Intel ones.
As you may guess, it is ATI Radeon HD 4890 X2. It is not available yet, but coming soon. We’re very impatient to try our WPA password recovery software there.
An article Best Graphics Cards For The Money: April ’09 : March Review/April Updates also worth reading.
In case if you missed it: new ATI Catalyst drivers (9.4) now available (you can read the release notes for details). For some reason, some driver files have been renamed (well, not in 9.4, but in 9.3 released a bit earlier, though that version was really buggy and we cannot recommend to use it anyway), and our WPA password recovery (audit) software was not able to recognize Radeon cards anymore.
Well, to make the long story short: simply download the latest ATI Catalyst drivers and updated Elcomsoft Wireless Security Auditor 
. Just note that this (new) version of EWSA will not work with drivers version 9.1 or older.
In the meantime, NVIDIA CUDA 2.2 (beta) released. Does that actually matter? Yes, because NVIDIA Tesla C1060 and S1070 are now officially supported on Windows. Besides, we need to have a look at Zero-copy support for direct access to system memory, because it may speed-up the GPU-enabled password cracking on some particular algorithms.
ATI and NVIDIA arranged a new graphic cards fight, claims TweakTown:
NVIDIA has now moved the launch date for the GTX 275 up to April 2nd, the same day that ATI is launching the Radeon HD 4890. The two companies have both moved their launch dates up a few times on the two cards in an effort to gain a little bit of an edge over the other.
We’ll carry out our own examination and try Elcomsoft Wireless Security Auditor on both of them. Can’t wait to see which of the newdesigned cards will pass our acceleration test, yet it seems we should arm ourselves with patience until April 13th when GTX 275 will come onto the market.