I have a 560 and 550 on two different machines, and Gazebo seems to work
fine. In my experience, Gazebo is not GPU limited, but is limited by your
clock speed.

Not sure what your application is for Gazebo, but it will be work spending
some time configuring your setup no matter what computer you have:
http://answers.ros.org/question/715/how-can-i-speed-up-simulation-in-gazebo#1235

Kevin

On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 12:22 PM, Ian Lenz <ianlenz@cs.cornell.edu> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> Our lab is planning on building a beefy machine for GPU computing, and we
> wanted to make sure that we got a GPU which was compatible with Gazebo. Our
> current plan is to have two Geforce 580s in SLI. Can someone confirm that
> this will in fact work with Gazebo? It seems as though it'll work with Ogre,
> but I'm just trying to make sure there's not some extra hidden caveat before
> we sink $1k into these GPUs.
>
> Thanks,
> Ian Lenz
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