Thanks for the effort, looks good to me!

MrS

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Hi there. my boinc and gpu setup reports this
11/21/2010 4:12:53 PM NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce 9600 GT (driver version 26306, CUDA version 3020, compute capability 1.1, 512MB, 208 GFLOPS peak)
It's now november 2010, so hopefully I can get a new nvidia with a higher number of "GFLOPS peek

GeForce GTX 580 (driver version 26309, CUDA version 3020, compute capability 2.0, 1536MB, 1741 GFLOPS peak)
It's OC'ed to 850MHz

On standard clock rate:
GeForce GTX 580 (driver version 26309, CUDA version 3020, compute capability 2.0, 1536MB, 1581 GFLOPS peak)

GTX570 (standard version, default clocks)
GeForce GTX 570 (driver version 26309, CUDA version 3020, compute capability 2.0, 1248MB, 1405 GFLOPS peak)

EVGA GTX 570 superclocked (012-P3-1572-AR) with factory clocking:

GPU 797
memory 975
shader 1594

driver 26309, 1248MB, 1530 GFLOPS peak.

Finally I received the two Asus GTX 580 boards I had ordered beginning of December. I have just installed them and they are running now on stock speeds, no OC. We will see how they impact the RAC. They run on desktops with 980X CPU running at 4.2 Ghz.

Driver 266.58
Processor clock: 1'564 Mhz
Graphic clock: 782 Mhz
Memory clock : 2'004 Mhz x2 (4'008 Mhz)
Memory: 1.5 Gb DDR5

Gflop: 1'602 peak.

I've got a question...

I've got an XUbuntu Linux i7-860 with a GTS-250. Boinc runs on it w/ access to 7 threads (pseudo cores, HT quad) because the machine has some other server like functions it needs to do so a 'core/thread' is left open.

Then for totally non-BOINC reasons I was testing some low-end vid cards in the 2nd, empty PCIx slot of this machine last night. The cards being tested were all under $50 and under 50w. 8400GS, GeForce 210 and a GT-430.

I noticed that BOINC recognized and would run PrimeGrid & Collatz on the GT430 but with low-power or non-3d clocks being reported. I upgraded the driver today from a 195.36.xx out of the repositories to a 270.18.xx beta driver from a PPA and the GT-430 now reports proper clocks. I re-enabled GPUGrid on this machine and the GTS-250 is working on a WU that it looks like it might finish by the deadline ~5 days away.

Finally to the question... Is there a chance in he** of the GT-430 ever starting & completing a GPUGrid WU within the deadline with it's BOINC reported 179 GFLOP rating? If so, I can leave GPUGrid on this machine. The little, low profile GT-430 is just filling an otherwise empty PCIx slot and since it's so small/low it doesn't cause any temp problems to the GTS-250 behind it.

Thanx, Skip


BOINC log startup entries:

Sat 26 Feb 2011 03:42:42 PM CST Processor: 8 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 860 @ 2.80GHz [Family 6 Model 30 Stepping 5]
Sat 26 Feb 2011 03:42:42 PM CST Processor: 8.00 MB cache
Sat 26 Feb 2011 03:42:42 PM CST Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good xtopology nonstop_tsc aperfmperf pni dtes64 monito
Sat 26 Feb 2011 03:42:42 PM CST OS: Linux: 2.6.32-28-generic
Sat 26 Feb 2011 03:42:42 PM CST Memory: 3.83 GB physical, 2.27 GB virtual
Sat 26 Feb 2011 03:42:42 PM CST Disk: 14.76 GB total, 11.05 GB free
Sat 26 Feb 2011 03:42:42 PM CST Local time is UTC -6 hours
Sat 26 Feb 2011 03:42:42 PM CST NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce GTS 250 (driver version unknown, CUDA version 4000, compute capability 1.1, 1023MB, 470 GFLOPS peak)
Sat 26 Feb 2011 03:42:42 PM CST NVIDIA GPU 1: GeForce GT 430 (driver version unknown, CUDA version 4000, compute capability 2.1, 512MB, 179 GFLOPS peak)

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- da shu @ HeliOS,
"A child's exposure to technology should never be predicated on an ability to afford it."

If I was you I would pull the apparently unreliable and slow 150W GTS250 and test the 49W (if non-OEM) GT430 to find out for sure. The other cards would be of no use. Post back how you get on - it would be good to know either way.

179 GFlops peak:
In theory, a GT430 is supposed to be 268.8 GFlops peak, but because it's CC2.1 it's more likely to behave as if it has 64 cuda cores, at GPUGrid, which would give you 179GFlops peak - Boinc must be reading this from the new drivers.

The actual performance of your GT430 card running the 6.13app will be largely down to your Linux setup/configuration; only trying it will tell. I know that a GT240 outperforms a GTS250 at GPUGrid running 6.12apps (and previous apps), and that many GTS250's are unreliable, but I also know that the GT240 takes a huge performance hit when trying to run the 6.13app (I expect this is the case for CC1.1 cards as well). Hopefully the GT430 will not see this hit, being a Fermi. So, my guess is that it could complete an average task inside 2days, if the system was optimized as best as possible to run GPUGrid tasks.

So much has changed - give it try and report back :)

MrS

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So much has changed - give it try and report back :)

MrS

Errors out right away...

http://www.gpugrid.net/result.php?resultid=375025

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- da shu @ HeliOS,
"A child's exposure to technology should never be predicated on an ability to afford it."

On standard clock rate (607MHz/1215Mhz/1707MHz)
GeForce GTX 590 (driver version 26791, CUDA version 3020, compute capability 2.0, 1536MB, 1244 GFLOPS peak)
There are two of these on one card of course. :)

what about a solution like GTX295 + GTX480 ? I already own the 480 and i can buy the gtx295 for a very low price...

I'm not sure if that will require waiting for a major change in BOINC - the ability to set up a separate job queue for each of multiple unlike GPUs, and the abilty of the BOINC clients to make separate job requests for each queue. There are so few people with each configuration of multiple unlike GPUs on the same computer that I don't consider it likely that the GPUGRID software will be changed to able have a workunit use two unlike GPUs at once.

Already works with 6.13.

ok thank you :)

Nvidia ------- driver ---- CUDA --- compute -- RAM - GFLOPS
Geforce: --- version: - version: - capability: --- MB ----peak:
ION ----------- 26658 --- 3020 ------- 1,2 -------- 412 ----- 17
8600 GS ---- 26658 --- 3020 ------- 1,1 -------- 500 ----- 38
GT 430 ------ 26658 --- 3020 ------- 2,1 -------- 993 ---- 201
GTX 260 ---- 26658 --- 3020 ------- 1,3 -------- 896 ---- 477
GTX 560 Ti - 26666 --- 3020 ------- 2,1 ------ 1024 ---- 901

ION and 8600 GS: to slow for GPUGrid
GTX 260 with 192 Shader: don´t go.

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So much to go through. Didn't know if you had these official BOINC speeds posted for the GTX 460. I have the 1GB model at 605 GFLOPS peak and the 768MB (Superclock from EVGA) at 684GFLOPS peak. I hope this helps. Let me know if you need/want more info.

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The update is just to include the more recent cards.

Relative Comparison of Recommended Cards, with approximated CC Correction Factor values (in brackets):

GTX 590 GF110 40nm Compute Capable 2.0 2488 BoincGFlops peak (3359)
GTX 580 GF110 40nm Compute Capable 2.0 1581 BoincGFlops peak (2134)
GTX 570 GF110 40nm Compute Capable 2.0 1405 BoincGFlops peak (1896)
GTX 480 GF100 40nm Compute Capable 2.0 1345 BoincGFlops peak (1816)
GTX 295 GT200b 55nm Compute Capable 1.3 1192 BoincGFlops peak (1669)
GTX 470 GF100 40nm Compute Capable 2.0 1089 BoincGFlops peak (1470)
GTX 465 GF100 40nm Compute Capable 2.0 855 BoincGFlops peak (1154)
GTX 560 GF114 40nm Compute Capable 2.1 1263 BoincGFlops peak (1136)
GTX 285 GT200b 55nm Compute Capable 1.3 695 BoincGFlops peak (973)
GTX 275 GT200b 55nm Compute Capable 1.3 674 BoincGFlops peak (934)
GTX 260-216 GT200b 55nm Compute Capable 1.3 596 BoincGFlops peak (834)
GTX 460 GF104 40nm Compute Capable 2.1 907 BoincGFlops peak 768MB (816)
GTX 460 GF104 40nm Compute Capable 2.1 907 BoincGFlops peak 1GB (816)
GTX 550 GF116 40nm Compute Capable 2.1 691 BoincGFlops peak (622)
GTS 450 GF106 40nm Compute Capable 2.1 601 BoincGFlops peak (541)

This update is based on the previous table produced, and is by performance, highest first.
I have only included CC1.3, CC2.0 and CC2.1 cards, but the comparison is originally based on CC1.1 cards.
Only Reference specs listed and only for optimized cards by the recommended methods. As usual, there are accuracy limitations and it’s lifetime is limited by the apps/drivers in use. New cards were just added, rather than a new survey made. Comparable but different systems (CPUs) were used, not all cards used the same drivers, only one task type was looked at. Some of these comparisons are adapted from when we used the 6.11app but the correction factors are still valid.
At some stage I will try to look at these cards again, running the long tasks 6.13, to produce a new relative performance table.

Correction Factors Used

CC1.1 = 1.00
CC1.2 = 1.30
CC1.3 = 1.40
CC2.0 = 1.35
CC2.1 = 0.90

Thanks for the posts,

1st system Win 7 Pro x64:
Gigabyte GTX460 1GB
GeForce GTX 460 (driver version 27061, CUDA version 4000, compute capability 2.1, 962MB , 641 GFLOPS peak)

2nd system Xubuntu 11.04 AMD64:
Gigabyte GTX460SO 1GB
GeForce GTX 460 (driver version unknown , CUDA version 4000, compute capability 2.1, 1024MB , 730 GFLOPS peak)

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Lubuntu 16.04.1 LTS x64