GTX 460 better times than GTX 660 TI
25 Sep 2014 6:59:11 UTC
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My GTX 460 1gig is doing Arecibo WUs in 5400 sec. The GTX 660 TI takes 6100. The 660 TI is now doing only Perseus and the times there are 19,000. Both GPUs are doing 2 tasks at a time. The 460 CPU is a dual core with nothing else running. The 660 has a 6 core running WCG on 5 cores, 1 for E@H.
GTX 460
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
kernel 3.2.0-68
Boinc 7.0.65
Nvidia driver 331.38
CPU AMD 4450e 2.3gz
GTX 660 TI
Mint 17
kernel 3.13.0-24
Boinc 7.2.42
Nvidia driver 331.38
CPU AMD 6 core 3 gz
Any ideas or suggestions as to why the 460 is doing so much better? Both are dedicated crunchers.
Thanks
GTX 460 better times than GTX 660 TI
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I suppose it is because the shader clock in the GTX 460 (Fermi) is frequency-doubled, whereas for the GTX 660 Ti (Kepler) it is not. Since the CUDA version is only 3.2 here at E@H, all the Kepler advantages do not come into play. It reminds me that I have a GTX 560 on the shelf that I have not looked at for a long time.
Try running the 660 machine
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Try running the 660 machine with no cpu tasks. At a minimum, each gpu task should have a full cpu core/thread reserved for it.
As a test, start with no cpu cores running any tasks. Then if you want to do cpu tasks, start running cpu tasks and increasing one core at a time until you see it start affecting your gpu times.
If you are running 2 gpu tasks, 2 cpu cores/threads, one per task, should always be reserved to support the gpu tasks.
I've stated all this without knowing the other specs on your computers as other factors can affect performance. Such as the chipset i.e. Z97, X79, etc. Memory quantity and speed. PCI bus spec, i.e. PCI2 or PCI3.
Hope this makes sense.
I personally don't run any cpu tasks on machines running gpu work. I treat the cpu as only existing to support the gpu.
Phil
Thank you jim1348 and AB9IZ -
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Thank you jim1348 and AB9IZ - Phil for the replies.
I freed up another CPU core so each E@H task has 1 core and top showed the tasks going from 20-25% CPU to 30-35% CPU.
I will report back after a few WUs are completed but this looks fixed.
Thanks!
RE: I will report back
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There are several things that might be contributing to my results, but my 460 also finishes Einstein CUDA tasks faster than my 660Tis.
I am quite surprised what you
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I am quite surprised what you are saying about the 660ti, because 460s are a little old cards.
Thank you for posting that, I was about to buy a couple of 660ti or 670ti.
I have several GTX460s, different versions.
Great advantage of these cards is an OC potential.
All the cards are running on more than 800MHz (800-830), 24/7, pretty stable, without voltage adjustment.
Shafa, don't buy any Kepler
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Shafa, don't buy any Kepler cards now that Maxwell is here. It's so much more power efficient, it will pay off over time. If you want to run nVidias at Einstein currently the GTX750Ti seems to be the most power efficient. If you prefer larger cards GTX970 should be for you, although it's not really stretching its legs compared to the 750 (see the Maxwell 2 thread).
MrS
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Yep, that is clear. But cost
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Yep, that is clear.
But cost of energy is not my concern, fortunately ;-)
Looks like 2nd hand GTX570 and GTX580 around 90EUR/each is the key :D
I have a Gigabyte 660Ti and
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I have a Gigabyte 660Ti and an eVGA 570 HD running in two separate machines. The 660Ti is running on a 2.66 GHz machine, the 570 on a 3.0 GHz machine. Both machines are quad core Xeons running Mac OS X and whatever the OEM driver is, under CUDA 6.0.54.
The 660Ti machine finishes a BRP4G unit in 9747 seconds, the 570HD machine does one in 7824 seconds, both of which are running two BRP4G's per video card.
Somehow I get the feeling nVidia chose to let raw CUDA compute take a back seat to graphics rendering between generations.
Sorry, somehow double posted.
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Sorry, somehow double posted.
My currently top-scoring two
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My currently top-scoring two hosts have GTX 660s installed somewhat over a year ago as a swap for GTX 460s. I was looking to get power reduction and performance increase. I got some of each, but less than I hoped, and I think the power reduction was by a bigger factor than the performance increase.
One of these day, I intend to offer the 460s on eBay. And if I swap one or both 660s for Maxwell 2, those will go on offer as well.