Tom’s Hardware has tested two mainstream NVIDIA cards (GeForce 9600 GT and GeForce 9800 GTX) on several CUDA-enabled applications. The applications were:
- SETI@home
- CyberLink PowerDirector
- Tsunami MPEG Encoder
- Super LoiLoScope
- Badaboom
Posts Tagged ‘Nvidia’
CUDA-enabled applications
Monday, May 18th, 2009More on SLI
Wednesday, May 13th, 2009If you are going to purchase a new computer (or make it yourself), you should definitely think about graphics — for CAD/CAM, gaming, searching for extraterrestrial intelligence at home or password cracking. Of course, thinking of budget, too. I hope you’re already aware of NVIDIA SLI which allows to use multiple video cards, but how a single dual-GPU compares to two single-GPU ones? Read GeForce GTX 295 Vs. GTX 275 SLI: When Two Are Better Than One.
NVIDIA about Intel
Tuesday, April 28th, 2009Considering Intel Core i7? Read Nvidia Says Core i7 Isn’t Worth It and nVidia calls Core i7 a waste of money first. We’d agree that investing into GPU(s) is really a good idea, especially if you need to crack passwords.
Wardriving with NVIDIA
Tuesday, April 28th, 200917" screen, Intel Core 2 Extreme processor (four cores) plus NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M — an excellent device not only for gaming, but also for wardriving. Get it from Sager, and just add Wireless Security Auditor.
More on NVIDIA GT300
Thursday, April 23rd, 2009Finally, nVidia’s GT300 specifications revealed! 512 cores (remember that GT200 has only 240), which means about 3 TFLOPS — can you imagine that? We’re also expecting the new generation of Tesla supercomputers based on those GPUs. GT300 also gives direct hardware access for CUDA 3.0, DirectX 11, OpenGL 3.1 and OpenCL.
Tesla supercomputer
Tuesday, April 21st, 2009Can you imagine 10,080 processing cores? And how about 40 TFlops? Thanks to NVIDIA Tesla — this is 42 C1060 cards only.
And btw, don’t miss NVidia Promotion: 50% off MSRP on Tesla C1060.
Password cracking with Apple Mac Pro
Tuesday, April 21st, 2009Nvidia has announced that it will now offer Nvidia Quadro FX 4800 for Apple Mac Pro systems. Good idea! More on CNET.
NVIDIA GT300
Monday, April 20th, 2009According to The Inquirer, Nvidia GT300 promised in October. Should be a good video card for GPU-accelerated password cracking 
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New ATI Radeon card
Thursday, April 16th, 2009The 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.
Nvidia Quadro FX 4800
Wednesday, April 15th, 2009You should be aware that Distributed Password Recovery and Wireless Security Auditor work not only with NVIDIA GeForce cards and Tesla supercomputers (in terms of GPU acceleration), but with professional Quadro cards, too. We never compared the performance of GeForce and Quadro, though. Curious? Then read the Nvidia Quadro FX 4800: Workstation Graphics At Its Finest? article published at Tom’s Hardware today.
Technically, Quadro FX 4800 is very similar to GeForce GTX 280. But have a look at the Performance Comparison. On some tests, Quadro is up to 10 times faster than GeForce. Yes, almost the same GPU. Yes, same version of drivers. Amazing. Just note that the retail price on FX 4800 is in $1600-$2000 range. But if it can do password cracking at much higher rate than GeForce (again, we never tried it, sorry), it looks like a good investment.