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780ti not faster than a GTX 580
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Miklos M. Send message Joined: 5 May 99 Posts: 955 Credit: 136,115,648 RAC: 73 |
I am wondering why my two 780ti cards are not faster than a GTX 580. Doing Distributed Rainbow units. |
rob smith Send message Joined: 7 Mar 03 Posts: 22160 Credit: 416,307,556 RAC: 380 |
I suggest you go and ask this question of the folks over Distributed Rainbow land's forums where you should be able to get an answer. Bob Smith Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society) Somewhere in the (un)known Universe? |
Miklos M. Send message Joined: 5 May 99 Posts: 955 Credit: 136,115,648 RAC: 73 |
I understand that this is the wrong site for the question, but they are not there too often. |
HAL9000 Send message Joined: 11 Sep 99 Posts: 6534 Credit: 196,805,888 RAC: 57 |
It depends on what they are doing to the GPU. If the kind of processing they are doing is saturating another resource then a faster GPU won't help that kind of processing. SETI@home classic workunits: 93,865 CPU time: 863,447 hours Join the [url=http://tinyurl.com/8y46zvu]BP6/VP6 User Group[ |
Miklos M. Send message Joined: 5 May 99 Posts: 955 Credit: 136,115,648 RAC: 73 |
That makes sense, although I see other people with the same computer GPU's running a wu in about 25 minutes or even less and mine took the first two to crunch in 85 minutes each. I keep asking here, because this I found to be the only site where one can get answers. |
juan BFP Send message Joined: 16 Mar 07 Posts: 9786 Credit: 572,710,851 RAC: 3,799 |
Don´t know if that is you answer so if i´m wrong please forgive me. Some time ago i made the same question, why the 780 not apears to be faster than a 770 (actualy an OC 680) or even the 580 as it should be. Our "master guru" Jason give me the technical explanation, i try to find his post but i was unable, will try to explain in one word: "latency". For some reason the 780 series (he including have one 780SC) loose a lot of time with the latencies of the driver and the GPU itself, don´t ask me why i simply have no knowledgue to explain. Maybe if he read this post he could give us all the explanation again. AFAIK he is working on the problem and we expected that to be solved with the x42 builds, but that is not for now. So it´s possible the problem you related on Distrigen could be related to that too. So it´s hard for somebody here help you with that. Maybe in Distrigen someone could have the answer, i don´t do Distrigen so i can´t help too. My sugestion, when you crunch SETI crunch SETI only when do Dristigen do Distrigen only and see if something changes, yes i agree is a long shoot but when i try to run E@H and MB crunching at the same time on the my 780FTW the times increases exponentialy with no other explanation, so the problem is similar. BTW I don´t have the Ti model only FTW´s but their processor are the same so in theory both must have the same latency limitation. |
juan BFP Send message Joined: 16 Mar 07 Posts: 9786 Credit: 572,710,851 RAC: 3,799 |
I find a part of the Jason´s explanation... This is exactly the phenomena that leads to most of the x42 changes. Pretty soon after receiving my own 780 SC I was exploring to find which parts of code these fast GPUs spend most of their time in, and why just one task doesn't push 100%. |
Miklos M. Send message Joined: 5 May 99 Posts: 955 Credit: 136,115,648 RAC: 73 |
I have the Distr running on GPU and Rosetta on CPU what do you think? |
juan BFP Send message Joined: 16 Mar 07 Posts: 9786 Credit: 572,710,851 RAC: 3,799 |
Sorry i can´t help you with distr or rosetta, anything I could say about them is a total unfundamented guess. As Rob say you need to ask in ther forums since each program works diferent and what works on one could simply not work in the other. |
jason_gee Send message Joined: 24 Nov 06 Posts: 7489 Credit: 91,093,184 RAC: 0 |
Yeah that'll do, thanks Juan for finding that, as I'm a bit tied up at the moment. From the OP's query, Even though I know nothing of this particular app, I can make some comments. If you see other similar hosts/cards achieving better times with similar work & application, the best is to first check every possible difference with available information, like: - Different App version ? - Different OS ? - Overclock / watercooling on host you're comparing against ? - Different CPU ? (and associated Overclocks etc too) There are so many reasons a given application may perform on one system with the same GPU, and on another not. Working out where the key differences are is a start, and extends through these levels and back: 1) GPU-application code (was it made scalable to the new GPU architecture?) 2) GPU library runtimes (different version of Cuda/OpenCL?) 3) Driver, User mode Level. ( IS the device being shared ? is the driver beta, outdated, or other wise flakey) 4) OS Driver Level (as with #3, but add in if OS is changing, or misconfigured, such as power saving settings... e.g. Windows is changing also, to share nicer between applications. ) 5) Other Hardware drivers. ( Are any devices in the system using outdated BIOS, Firmware [especially SSD] , Drivers... especially PCI Express with generic Microsoft drivers dated 2006 ? ) So there's quite a lot to narrow down before a specific problem/fault could be pointed at, but hopefully gives some ideas. "Living by the wisdom of computer science doesn't sound so bad after all. And unlike most advice, it's backed up by proofs." -- Algorithms to live by: The computer science of human decisions. |
Miklos M. Send message Joined: 5 May 99 Posts: 955 Credit: 136,115,648 RAC: 73 |
I have shut down Rosetta and see what happens. |
Miklos M. Send message Joined: 5 May 99 Posts: 955 Credit: 136,115,648 RAC: 73 |
seems to make no difference with Rosetta stopped. |
Miklos M. Send message Joined: 5 May 99 Posts: 955 Credit: 136,115,648 RAC: 73 |
I think I my have found out something by trying a few other projects. For PrimeGrid and Collatz my GTX 780ti cards are on par with other fast performers with the same cards. But for DistrRain no one seems to use GTX 780 ti cards. Like a wake up call for me. Perhaps they tried it, but did not like how it performed vs. the GTX 580(not much better). But my new cards sure like to run Boinc and they run Collatz and PrimeGrid also a lot faster than the GTX 580. Mora of the story: do more research before complaining. I am now running one wu of GPUGrid to test it there too, comparing it to other results with the same cards. Also, thank you all for your kind patience and help. I know I can always count on the Seti boards for help! |
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