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Message 42412 - Posted: 2 Feb 2012, 20:59:46 UTC

The nvidia website lists CUDa enabled GPU's: http://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-gpus what does the "compute capability figure mean ? there is only a 1.0 to 2.1 range so it must be a different measurement from brute speed.
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Message 42503 - Posted: 9 Feb 2012, 10:05:15 UTC - in response to Message 42412.  

It's a sort of hardware version number. Have a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CUDA#Limitations and the table below.
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Message 42504 - Posted: 9 Feb 2012, 12:54:33 UTC

I see, so basically it does not mean that the GPU is any more faster but that it can do more types of calculations opening it up for more types of computing tasks
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