If I had a chance at getting a used 1080TI or if I get lucky and find a new one (being they are no longer made) which would be better for crunching here? The 1080 or the 1650?

Everything is rated for games, but how does gaming frames per minute and resolution apply to crunching? This is the one thing that I have never understood here in BOINC world and now that I am upgrading, I want to be sure I put my money into something that works very good here, not just the "latest and greatest" GPU. I'm also looking for something that can tackle Primegrid tasks.

Or is it more about cores, memory bandwith and speed of the cores and total memory? And which brand of the 1660 compares best with the 1080? And do I really need the dual fans for crunching? My 1050TI barely gets warm even with massive OC applied and its just a single fan.

Any thoughts?

If I had a chance at getting a used 1080TI or if I get lucky and find a new one (being they are no longer made) which would be better for crunching here? The 1080 or the 1650?

Or is it more about cores, memory bandwidth and speed of the cores and total memory?

And which brand of the 1660 compares best with the 1080? And do I really need the dual fans for crunching? My 1050TI barely gets warm even with massive OC applied and its just a single fan.

A good figure is the "single precision GFLOPS" performance (see e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Nvidia_Graphics_Processing_Units ).

But please, whatever hardware you buy, be it for YOU, not "for" a distributed computing project.

I think the 1060 will future proof me in the video world for a long time.

I think the 1060 will future proof me in the video world for a long time.

If you would like to buy a "future proof" card (not only for CUDA but also for gaming), I would rather get one with a little more memory like 8GB. Because when you look at the video RAM usage in Afterburner-OSD or other tools, many current games tend to utilize 6GB and more already. The 1060 provides modest 6GB and the same applies to the new 1660. The cheapest Nvidia card with 8GB is the 2060 Super, alternatively you could aim at the 2070. This one has enough power to run most games on a very high level, unless you own a 4K monitor. The AMD 5700 (XT) is also a nice card, but you will not be able to run CUDA with this one, unfortunately. And AMD had not really a good reputation in the past when it came to driver stability. I don't know whether or not this has improved with Navi/RDNA.

I think the 1060 will future proof me in the video world for a long time.

If you would like to buy a "future proof" card (not only for CUDA but also for gaming), I would rather get one with a little more memory like 8GB. Because when you look at the video RAM usage in Afterburner-OSD or other tools, many current games tend to utilize 6GB and more already. The 1060 provides modest 6GB and the same applies to the new 1660. The cheapest Nvidia card with 8GB is the 2060 Super, alternatively you could aim at the 2070. This one has enough power to run most games on a very high level, unless you own a 4K monitor. The AMD 5700 (XT) is also a nice card, but you will not be able to run CUDA with this one, unfortunately. And AMD had not really a good reputation in the past when it came to driver stability. I don't know whether or not this has improved with Navi/RDNA.

Actually, it is much worse with the Navi 5500/5700/XT cards. They just don't compute OpenCL correctly on many projects now. They are polluting the science databases at many projects because of their gaming popularity and cross-verifications against another Navi card.

The GTX 1650 card is a decent cruncher for under $200. You can find it near the top of the credit per watt-hour chart in this post at Seti. It falls to the middle of the pack though on the credit per hour chart. But this is only for Seti performance. But is still representative for relational purposes to other gpu products.

https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=81962&postid=2018703#2018703

If you can stretch your budget another $20-30 you could move up to the GTX 1660.

The GTX 1650 card is a decent cruncher for under $200. You can find it near the top of the credit per watt-hour chart in this post at Seti. It falls to the middle of the pack though on the credit per hour chart. But this is only for Seti performance. But is still representative for relational purposes to other gpu products.

https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=81962&postid=2018703#2018703

If you can stretch your budget another $20-30 you could move up to the GTX 1660.

Colorful is supposed to have a VERY good reputation for all their AMD gpu products. Don't have any knowledge whether that carries over to their Nvidia product line. But I would think if the quality is there for one product line, the same quality process control probably is applied to any other product line.

Colorful is supposed to have a VERY good reputation for all their AMD gpu products. Don't have any knowledge whether that carries over to their Nvidia product line. But I would think if the quality is there for one product line, the same quality process control probably is applied to any other product line.

Colorful is supposed to have a VERY good reputation for all their AMD gpu products. Don't have any knowledge whether that carries over to their Nvidia product line. But I would think if the quality is there for one product line, the same quality process control probably is applied to any other product line.

I'll dig into them later this week. its 230am here in EU land. So got to sleep.
Thanks for the short bit of info.

Colorful is supposed to have a VERY good reputation for all their AMD gpu products. Don't have any knowledge whether that carries over to their Nvidia product line. But I would think if the quality is there for one product line, the same quality process control probably is applied to any other product line.

I'll dig into them later this week. its 230am here in EU land. So got to sleep.
Thanks for the short bit of info.

I might have a problem with getting this. It's mostly available from China and again customs is going to ding me. So have to dig around. I might just have to settle for the 1650.