# Looking to buy a new GPU

**URL:** <https://blenderartists.org/t/looking-to-buy-a-new-gpu/559518>\
**Category:** Technical Support\
**Created:** [December 14, 2012, 2:52pm UTC](https://blenderartists.org/t/looking-to-buy-a-new-gpu/559518 "2012-12-14T14:52:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![shadowlich](https://blenderartists.org/user_avatar/blenderartists.org/shadowlich/32/19974_2.png) [@shadowlich](https://blenderartists.org/u/shadowlich)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2012, 2:52pm UTC](https://blenderartists.org/t/looking-to-buy-a-new-gpu/559518/1 "2012-12-14T14:52:20Z")

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So I’m looking to buy a new nvidia GPU that works well with cycles, has sli support and is under 300$. Thanks for the help.

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**Author:** ![Fweeb](https://blenderartists.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/ee7513/32.png) [@Fweeb](https://blenderartists.org/u/Fweeb)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2012, 12:16pm UTC](https://blenderartists.org/t/looking-to-buy-a-new-gpu/559518/2 "2012-12-15T12:16:22Z")

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Moved from “General Forums \> Blender and CG Discussions” to “Support \> Technical Support”

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**Author:** ![Phoenix492](https://blenderartists.org/user_avatar/blenderartists.org/phoenix492/32/15844_2.png) [@Phoenix492](https://blenderartists.org/u/Phoenix492)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2012, 1:27pm UTC](https://blenderartists.org/t/looking-to-buy-a-new-gpu/559518/3 "2012-12-15T13:27:11Z")

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Have a look at the GTX600 series, or if you can find one for a nice price, a GTX570, which is faster at cycles rendering - surprising for an older card, but they changed it slightly - better for games, worse for rendering…

Although saying that, I’m currently looking at the 2GB GTX680, if I can find one for a nice price of course…

Remember, the GB of the card is important, as all the scene has to fit into the VRAM amount, so larger / detailed scenes will need bigger cards (or SLI cards together maybe), where as you need to have a good amount of cuda cores for the rendering - although most 500 series have about 960, whereas the 600 series have 1344 cores…

Think there was a site somewhere with a benchmark test that was carried out earlier this year, with various GPU renders versus CPU renders, with the different cards etc…I’ll have a look.,…

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**Author:** ![Phoenix492](https://blenderartists.org/user_avatar/blenderartists.org/phoenix492/32/15844_2.png) [@Phoenix492](https://blenderartists.org/u/Phoenix492)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2012, 1:36pm UTC](https://blenderartists.org/t/looking-to-buy-a-new-gpu/559518/4 "2012-12-15T13:36:46Z")

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And here is the Benchmark Site

> **[Redone Blender Cycles Benchmark](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12Pd9GGRR0zcF8Mf9uf9JT3Fb9NReixTidUBmusGRP7E/edit)**
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> benchmark results
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> Blenderartist Handle, Timestamp, GPU, Operating System, Blender Build, Rendertime( CPU), Rendertime( GPU CUDA), Rendertime( GPU OpenCL), CPU, GPU Driver Version
> Extra Guy, 27/ 02/ 2012 01: 15: 56, Nividia GeForce GTX 590 quadSLI(...

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**Author:** ![shadowlich](https://blenderartists.org/user_avatar/blenderartists.org/shadowlich/32/19974_2.png) [@shadowlich](https://blenderartists.org/u/shadowlich)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2012, 1:43pm UTC](https://blenderartists.org/t/looking-to-buy-a-new-gpu/559518/5 "2012-12-15T13:43:50Z")

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Thanks for the help.