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Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> [11-11-24 04:02]: |
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> On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 11:21 AM, <meino.cramer@×××.de> wrote: |
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> > Alex Schuster <wonko@×××××××××.org> [11-11-23 20:08]: |
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> >> meino.cramer@×××.de asks: |
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> >> |
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> >> > Is it right, that is simple to pull out the old card and insert the |
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> >> > new one or do I badly forget anything ? |
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> >> |
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> >> Just be sure to shut the machine down before doing that. You might lock |
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> >> yourself out for quite a while if not. |
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> >> |
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> >> Wonko |
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> >> |
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> > |
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> > Hi * |
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> > |
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> > This mail is written while looking at it via a display driven by a msi |
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> > 560 ti ! TADA! :) |
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> > |
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> > Thanks a lot to you all for the quick a helpful postings! |
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> > |
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> > Currently I am using the 290.06 driver which works "fine enough" for |
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> > the first and I am curious what 290.2 will bring, when it appears |
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> > in the great world of gentoo :)) |
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> > |
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> > On question remains: |
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> > When rendering via Blenders shiny new Cycles GPU renderer, |
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> > nvidia-settings shows a performance of 51% and nothing more. |
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> > I switche to "Maximum performance preffered" but this does |
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> > not really anything worth mentioning... |
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> > |
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> > Do I understand "51%" wrong here or... |
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> > |
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> > Best regards, |
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> > mcc |
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> > |
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> Congrats on getting it running. Now let's hope for stability! ;-) |
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> As for Blender I don't really know as I don't use it. However possibly |
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> nvidia-settings can give you a clue. My 465 has 2 GPUs. If you have 2 |
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> GPUs but only one is being used then ... 51%, etc. |
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> |
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> I can watch the GPU clock rates along with thermal stuff from the |
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> nvidia-settings gui. Maybe that will show you more about what Blender |
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> is doing. There is also nvidia-smi from the command line that gives |
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> info also. |
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> HTH, |
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> Mark |
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> |
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Hi Mark, |
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while rendering nvidia-smi is showing this: |
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Thu Nov 24 04:49:59 2011 |
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+------------------------------------------------------+ |
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| NVIDIA-SMI 2.290.06 Driver Version: 290.06 | |
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|-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+ |
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| Nb. Name | Bus Id Disp. | Volatile ECC SB / DB | |
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| Fan Temp Power Usage /Cap | Memory Usage | GPU Util. Compute M. | |
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|===============================+======================+======================| |
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| 0. GeForce GTX 560 Ti | 0000:08:00.0 N/A | N/A N/A | |
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| 51% 55 C N/A N/A / N/A | 23% 465MB / 2047MB | N/A Default | |
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|-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------| |
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| Compute processes: GPU Memory | |
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| GPU PID Process name Usage | |
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|=============================================================================| |
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| 0. ERROR: Not Supported | |
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+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |
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nvidia-settings is reporting one GPU....as far as I know, this card |
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has one GPU... |
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Or is "performance" for the NVidia-guys the same as "load" for the |
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Linux-community? |
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NVidia-settings show the highest possible values for clock speed, RAM |
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speed etc. though. |
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The performance percentage also does not depend on the complexity of |
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the scene I render... |
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It remains.....hrrrmmm....interesting ;) |
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Best regards |
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mcc |
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