new laptop with nvidia 930m graphics with 2048 m dedicated ram have 2 threads running now but I'm wondering if 3 or 4 would be better. any thoughts ?

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A gtx930 is a low-end card, running two tasks at a time on it will be close to the limit, three at a time will probably be over the limit, and four will most certainly be counter productive.


(BTW: SETI on a GPU is not limited by the amount of RAM, but by the number of GPU cores and the speed at which they can task swap - each GPU core is doing a very small bit of the overall task, and thus it swaps tasks very frequently)

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Bob Smith
Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society)
Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?

reportes as a geforce 930 not gtx not sure if that matters

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new laptop with nvidia 930m graphics with 2048 m dedicated ram have 2 threads running now but I'm wondering if 3 or 4 would be better. any thoughts ?

Given the specifications of the unit (limited number of CUDA cores & DDR3 memory, and much lower memory clock speed), 1 WU may be better than 2.

Only way to be sure is to check the run times (for similar WUs) while running 2 at a time, then do the same when running 1 at a time & see which goes through the most WUs per hour.

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Grant
Darwin NT

ok trial and error method

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