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Re: GPU Card Utilities & Driver Updates
Any thoughts on Nvidia 301.42 WHQL ? Anyone using it? coffee
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Any thoughts on Nvidia 301.42 WHQL ? Anyone using it? coffee
It works fine for me on a GT 240 for Folding (using CUDA). I have seen other good reports on it, with no problems yet, but I don't know about OpenCL.
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Thanks Jim. I put it on a GTX285 on MW and likewise it seems to be crunching fine. I have not looked at any video yet.
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Well, this one seems to crunch and work on vid's too. Perhaps after some notable recent failures they got one working, wink I'm not a gamer so didn't test that. Any reports on how it may work on the 6** series? Not like I'm going to spend 1 1/2 large on bleeding edge but I'm am interesting to see if Nvidia's gaming push will leave crunching behind. Just interested. peace
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I'm am interesting to see if Nvidia's gaming push will leave crunching behind. Just interested. peace
Looks that way to me. From what I've read the 6xx cards will do well with CUDA but poorly with OpenCl apps. Seems they have also crippled the FP64 capabilities because they want to push their Tesla and Quattro cards for that segment of the market. People like you, who want to crunch with them are a very small percentage of users when compared to gamers.
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All.depends on the project. As nanoprobe stated, bad FP64, bad with OpenCl. But GPUgrid it is 30% faster than 580. also faster over at Einstein.
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On the drivers front, for the *nixers that have a higher end NVidia card, there's newly ported drivers out from the OEM in 32 and 64 bits, Linux & FreeBSD:

http://www.nvidia.co.uk/object/linux-display-ia32-295.53-driver-uk.html
http://www.nvidia.co.uk/object/linux-display-amd64-295.53-driver-uk.html
http://www.nvidia.co.uk/object/freebsd-x86-295.53-driver-uk.html
http://www.nvidia.co.uk/object/freebsd-x64-295.53-driver-uk.html

295.59 is just out. Same links as previous post, just change the 3 to a 9. My system was still on 280.13, so added the relevant ppa to get update offerings automatically: http://www.noobslab.com/2011/09/nvidia-drivers-for-ubuntu-1110-oneiric.html (their repository is as of yet on 295.53, but it's a leap forward)

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Techpower's GPU-Z was recently updated to version 0.62. http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/2137/TechPowerUp_GPU-Z_v0.6.2.html

Letting this loose on the laptop with I7 + ATI Radeon 6490, the tool suggests the integrated GPU of Intel is much more performant than the Radeon, 21.3GB/s bandwidth versus 0.2GB and clock of 667Mhz, v 100 Mhz. Whilst the quest to get OpenCL able drivers continues... every arm and leg of software and support resource twisted and tools installed, but that OpenCL box remains unticked... but we have PhysX and DirectCompute 5.0 too. Why CPU-Z claims the ATI has 1764MB memory and GPU-Z claims it's 1024MB [so the hardware doc suggests]... a mystery. Intel shows DirectX 10.1 capability and the ATI 11.0. No GPU crunching on this for now [it's the only device on] :(
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This will interest the ..buntu 12.10 upgraders with certain ATI Radeon cards: http://www.unixmen.com/ubuntu-12-10-and-amd-catalyst-problem-solved/

(No, this is not a problem discussion thread, merely about update news ;>)
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There's a new version of GPU-Z out. The summary changes will have some get into fetch mode as it now handles the latest crunching screamers:
    Changes in version 0.6.7:

        Added readout for texture mapping units (TMUs)
        Window position is now restored on startup
        When GPU-Z is minimized, the tray icon tooltip will show some sensor data
        Added support for AMD Tahiti LE, HD 7870M, HD 8000M Series
        Added support for NVIDIA GTX 670MX, GT 645M, 730M, GeForce 505, Tesla K20c, K20m, M2070-Q, M2075, Quadro 410, K600, K4000, K4000M K5000, K5000M 5010M
        Fixed system hang when GPU-Z starts on CrossFire systems (Catalyst driver bug)
        Fixed application crash when scanning for power sensors (NVIDIA driver bug)
        Fixed memory size and GPU temperature reading on AMD Llano Fusion systems
        Added command-line parameter -tab to select active tab on startup
        Fixed OpenCL detection for all AMD Thames based cards (e.g. FirePro m2000)
        Added version number to about dialog
Go http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/2198/mirrors.php
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