Thniknig out loud : It has just occurred to me that whether CUDA or OpenCL it will still be NVIDIA that has written the driver ie. an OpenCL port to the card. Thus one could wonder how optimised the OpenCL solution was compared with CUDA. I think NVIDIA would be bound to back their own standard first ( I'm just being pragmatic and not nasty here ).
Having lightly investigated OpenCL I'd go for that on developer efficiency grounds at least eg. one can have OpenCL ports for many common CPUs ( Intel/AMD/ARM/..... ) and thus kill several birds with one stone.
I'm still in 6XX land anyway, but it looks like I'll go for a 1080 at Xmas now.
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
Concerns are mounting over the failure rate of Nvidia’s RTX 2080 Ti graphics card, with increasing numbers of reports of dead and dying cards from early adopters. Some display issues involving artifacting and instability immediately after being installed, whilst others begin to show signs of degradation after a few days, despite a lack of manual overclocking or voltage manipulation.
As interesting as this card's potential seems to be it seems to me that it was rolled out half baked. Jeeze NVidia get it together and return to be a reliable vendor.
PCCasegear in Melbourne have them listed for a mere $1249 :-). It was just a price quote on staticice - I didn't go to the website and check availability. One of my local suppliers in Brisbane has them for around $1200. Far too dear for me :-).
Also, I notice PCCG have one of my favourites - an AMD RX 580 - for $249. I fully realise they aren't quite in the same league but they do run very nicely on Einstein FGRPB1G tasks :-). I run them in 2009 vintage Intel dual and quad core boxes that otherwise should be retired. I had been running some CPU tasks as well but with the arrival of the hot weather I've cut out CPU crunching entirely. Seems to help a bit with machine room temperature.
Newegg lists Australian prices, and it appears that they ship there. I usually find that the GTX 1070's are the most cost and power efficient for my projects.
Are not these for Linux only?
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Are not these for Linux only? For some reason they will not port to Windoz.
Yep they are impressive but not for us in the unwashed masses.
Is there any solving/updating
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Is there any solving/updating process running at developers side to include the Turing generation of GPUs?
Looks like it is pretty hard to tweak the Einstein-Code for the new generation...
Thank you for your response
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Thank you for your response Gary. :-)
Thniknig out loud : It has just occurred to me that whether CUDA or OpenCL it will still be NVIDIA that has written the driver ie. an OpenCL port to the card. Thus one could wonder how optimised the OpenCL solution was compared with CUDA. I think NVIDIA would be bound to back their own standard first ( I'm just being pragmatic and not nasty here ).
Having lightly investigated OpenCL I'd go for that on developer efficiency grounds at least eg. one can have OpenCL ports for many common CPUs ( Intel/AMD/ARM/..... ) and thus kill several birds with one stone.
I'm still in 6XX land anyway, but it looks like I'll go for a 1080 at Xmas now.
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
Mike Hewson wrote:I'm still
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Mike, go with a 1080Ti if you can find one. Has higher bandwidth and faster RAM. Will decrease time to completion by 30% vs 1080
Concerns are mounting over
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https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/nvidia-rtx-2080-ti-graphics-cards-dying/
As interesting as this card's
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As interesting as this card's potential seems to be it seems to me that it was rolled out half baked. Jeeze NVidia get it together and return to be a reliable vendor.
Zalster wrote:Mike Hewson
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My usual supplier has run out of 1080Ti or they are only available within already constructed systems. No way I'm getting a 2080 now. Oh well.
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
Mike Hewson wrote:My usual
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PCCasegear in Melbourne have them listed for a mere $1249 :-). It was just a price quote on staticice - I didn't go to the website and check availability. One of my local suppliers in Brisbane has them for around $1200. Far too dear for me :-).
Also, I notice PCCG have one of my favourites - an AMD RX 580 - for $249. I fully realise they aren't quite in the same league but they do run very nicely on Einstein FGRPB1G tasks :-). I run them in 2009 vintage Intel dual and quad core boxes that otherwise should be retired. I had been running some CPU tasks as well but with the arrival of the hot weather I've cut out CPU crunching entirely. Seems to help a bit with machine room temperature.
Cheers,
Gary.
Mike Hewson wrote:Zalster
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No idea on shipping 'down under' but here's a list for the 1080Ti's that's updated fairly often:
http://www.nowinstock.net/computers/videocards/nvidia/gtx1080ti/
Newegg lists Australian
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Newegg lists Australian prices, and it appears that they ship there. I usually find that the GTX 1070's are the most cost and power efficient for my projects.
https://www.newegg.com/global/au-en/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=100007709%20601202919&IsNodeId=1&bop=And&Order=PRICE&PageSize=36