08-18-2011, 03:35 AM
You are still talking about a small number of hashes. Maybe for your endless opencrack bruteforces that will get you by, but for people that crack with a purpose on real lists (50k is nothing btw) AMD falls flat.
GTX 480 for $580 bucks. You're kidding right? Then, comparing that to a later model card from AMD. Let me teach you a few things:
Reference GTX 480 will cost you 300 bucks:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.as...6814500156
Reference GTX 570 (more comparable to the 6950) 320 bucks:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.as...6814130621
Now lets take into account a couple other things. Drivers are more stable with nvidia, cards are less finicky, other GPGPU apps have better support for CUDA, while almost nothing natively supports Stream, just OpenCL.
The statistics that are listed on the downloads page are skewed since they are based on a single hash. Again, I will not contest that single hash (or < 100k) is faster. Put your cards up against md5crypt and see how they fair, then put them up against over 100k and shed a tear.
GTX 480 for $580 bucks. You're kidding right? Then, comparing that to a later model card from AMD. Let me teach you a few things:
Reference GTX 480 will cost you 300 bucks:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.as...6814500156
Reference GTX 570 (more comparable to the 6950) 320 bucks:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.as...6814130621
Now lets take into account a couple other things. Drivers are more stable with nvidia, cards are less finicky, other GPGPU apps have better support for CUDA, while almost nothing natively supports Stream, just OpenCL.
The statistics that are listed on the downloads page are skewed since they are based on a single hash. Again, I will not contest that single hash (or < 100k) is faster. Put your cards up against md5crypt and see how they fair, then put them up against over 100k and shed a tear.