I don't do gaming at all. I'm mostly editing and using Adobe Photoshop (CS3, maybe an upgrade some day.) I've heard the CUDA is far more effective than OpenCL based cards for video editing but I have no idea of the differences. I'd like to spend around $200-300 on a card and get the most for my money. Right now the cards I'm looking at are the AMD Radeon 7870 and 7970 and the GTX 660 ti and 670. Video editing probably is the largest time investment I will make and will save time on rendering (more than Photoshop) and I'd like to get one that gives me the least trouble and best value.
I have the ability to get a great GTX 660 ti card on sale. I read that the GTX 6xx series is now getting support in Vegas 12. But let's assume that it's there. What card do I want to invest in? I keep hearing that the AMD Radeon 7970 is far more powerful in "pure computing" but others say it's a gaming test and that a GTX 6xx series will blow it away using CUDA. I also hear that Kepler sucks and others say that it's just now seeing support but is a much improved powerful architecture over Fermi, just the software support needs to be updated. There is also the 660 ti question of the RAM bus speed which is supposedly more limited so even having the CUDA cores may not be significant (others say it will only affect gaming, not rendering... and others say the reverse.)
So all this technological terminology aside, which I only know by name, what card do I want to get? Can anyone get right down to the truth of all this instead of all these regurgitated speculation?
I have the ability to get a great GTX 660 ti card on sale. I read that the GTX 6xx series is now getting support in Vegas 12. But let's assume that it's there. What card do I want to invest in? I keep hearing that the AMD Radeon 7970 is far more powerful in "pure computing" but others say it's a gaming test and that a GTX 6xx series will blow it away using CUDA. I also hear that Kepler sucks and others say that it's just now seeing support but is a much improved powerful architecture over Fermi, just the software support needs to be updated. There is also the 660 ti question of the RAM bus speed which is supposedly more limited so even having the CUDA cores may not be significant (others say it will only affect gaming, not rendering... and others say the reverse.)
So all this technological terminology aside, which I only know by name, what card do I want to get? Can anyone get right down to the truth of all this instead of all these regurgitated speculation?