I gave running 2 at a time without the -poll setting a try on my Linux Mint system. It seems to be a little slower than running 1 with the poll setting, rather or not you're willing to accept the 100% CPU usage is a personal matter. Using the poll setting with 1 task the GPU load was around 94-96%, running 2 without the setting has it around 94-97% load with much less CPU usage. Running with driver 361.42 I haven't noticed any screen anomalies or lags.
I think it's time to move to Ubuntu 16.04...

Yeah Windows driver latencies are pretty atrocious compared to the Linux ones (In My experience), so the threshold of whether to run single or multiples definitely lies in a different place.

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"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.

For those that are interested, the Tech Report have an article looking at Pascal's (possible) architecture for consumer video cards.

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Grant
Darwin NT

Wow... Did NVIDIA just outdo Steve J on grandiose-sounding?

http://orderof10.com/humanityshallbeenlightened

AMD sounding downright humble by comparison:

https://www.amd.com/en-us/innovations/software-technologies/radeon-polaris

It's been a market share battle since 8800GT and apparently that stuff works on the hipster kids these days (go figure)

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"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.

New name's official:

NVIDIA GTX 1080

more updates soon...

edit1: "Faster" than Titan X and TDP @180W AFAICT
edit2: "Faster" than GTX 980 in SLI
edit3: Sorry should have said it's live... Here's the link
https://www.twitch.tv/nvidia

edit4: 1080 $599 May 27
1070 $379 June 3
Going from memory so numbers could be a bit off (not 100% sure about the 1070 release date for example)

Jason beat me to it ;)

As spotted by Videocardz, the leaked 3DMark11 Performance test, reportedly run on a Nvidia GTX 1080, hit a cracking score of 27,683. That's as much as a 50 per cent performance jump over even its high-end predecessor the GTX 980

A 50% improvement?
Will be interesting to see if that's the case for general release to retail products.

http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2016/05/leaked-benchmark-points-to-nvidia-gtx-1080-specs/

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Grant
Darwin NT

Watched the 10 series live stream, claims are:

GTX 1080:
~2 x performance of Titan-X/980
~3 x efficiency
US$599 MSRP
Was running at ~2.1GHz, 8Gig GDDR5x memory @5GHz memory clock
~may 27 availability

GTX 1070
faster than a Titan-X
US$399 MSRP

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"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.

Watched the 10 series live stream, claims are:
...

Will be very impressive if the reality matches the claims.

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Grant
Darwin NT

Kitties wanna wanna wanna....
Kibble account says no.

Mewosigh.

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

Watched the 10 series live stream, claims are:
...

Will be very impressive if the reality matches the claims.

Yeah, might have even misread the price on 1070 might have been $379 rather than 399.

They did skip a process node, and amp the memory/subsystem, so the claims seem viable. Time will tell if it's any good for compute, though the implications of some of the graphics+VR features seem to imply better/more-flexible processing.

For example they mentioned physics based audio processing for VR, which should be heavy floating point oriented, so we might get the raw TFlops we'd like.

[Edit:] Received a Tweet photo, 1080 has 1 8pin power connector

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"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.

Yeah, might have even misread the price on 1070 might have been $379 rather than 399.

Still be $750+ by the time it gets here.
*deep sigh*

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Grant
Darwin NT

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Grant
Darwin NT

From NVidia's web site.

GTX 1080
NVidia CUDA Cores: 2560
Base clock (MHz): 1607
Boost clock (MHz): 1733

Memory speed: 10Gbps
Standard memory config: 8GB GDDR5X
Memory interface width: 256bit
Memory Bandwidth (GB/s): 320

Graphics card power: 180W
Supplementary power connectors: 1*8 pin


180W- that's almost the same power as my old GTX460.

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Grant
Darwin NT

Yeah, might have even misread the price on 1070 might have been $379 rather than 399.

Still be $750+ by the time it gets here.
*deep sigh*

Yeah, Currency conversion rate really delayed upgrades I was considering.

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"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.

Yeah, might have even misread the price on 1070 might have been $379 rather than 399.

Still be $750+ by the time it gets here.
*deep sigh*

Yeah, Currency conversion rate really delayed upgrades I was considering.

And the usual Australia tax. Because we're not 3rd world we have to pay more; way, way above the currency conversion factor alone.

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Grant
Darwin NT

what you need is some australian gpus

what you need is some australian gpus

Never happen.
We had a car industry, gone. We had a steel industry, gone. We had a ship building industry, gone. Used to have a farming industry, it's dying. Used to have a manufacturing industry, gone. We actually had the start of a tech industry many years ago, long gone now.
Now all we do is dig stuff up.

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Grant
Darwin NT

maybe someone could buy the gpus at normal prices and bring them to you

maybe someone could buy the gpus at normal prices and bring them to you

It's happened in the past.

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Grant
Darwin NT