Mark Knecht <markkne...@gmail.com> [11-11-24 04:02]: > On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 11:21 AM, <meino.cra...@gmx.de> wrote: > > Alex Schuster <wo...@wonkology.org> [11-11-23 20:08]: > >> meino.cra...@gmx.de asks: > >> > >> > Is it right, that is simple to pull out the old card and insert the > >> > new one or do I badly forget anything ? > >> > >> Just be sure to shut the machine down before doing that. You might lock > >> yourself out for quite a while if not. > >> > >> Wonko > >> > > > > Hi * > > > > This mail is written while looking at it via a display driven by a msi > > 560 ti ! TADA! :) > > > > Thanks a lot to you all for the quick a helpful postings! > > > > Currently I am using the 290.06 driver which works "fine enough" for > > the first and I am curious what 290.2 will bring, when it appears > > in the great world of gentoo :)) > > > > On question remains: > > When rendering via Blenders shiny new Cycles GPU renderer, > > nvidia-settings shows a performance of 51% and nothing more. > > I switche to "Maximum performance preffered" but this does > > not really anything worth mentioning... > > > > Do I understand "51%" wrong here or... > > > > Best regards, > > mcc > > > > Congrats on getting it running. Now let's hope for stability! ;-) > > As for Blender I don't really know as I don't use it. However possibly > nvidia-settings can give you a clue. My 465 has 2 GPUs. If you have 2 > GPUs but only one is being used then ... 51%, etc. > > I can watch the GPU clock rates along with thermal stuff from the > nvidia-settings gui. Maybe that will show you more about what Blender > is doing. There is also nvidia-smi from the command line that gives > info also. > > HTH, > Mark >
Hi Mark, while rendering nvidia-smi is showing this: Thu Nov 24 04:49:59 2011 +------------------------------------------------------+ | NVIDIA-SMI 2.290.06 Driver Version: 290.06 | |-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+ | Nb. Name | Bus Id Disp. | Volatile ECC SB / DB | | Fan Temp Power Usage /Cap | Memory Usage | GPU Util. Compute M. | |===============================+======================+======================| | 0. GeForce GTX 560 Ti | 0000:08:00.0 N/A | N/A N/A | | 51% 55 C N/A N/A / N/A | 23% 465MB / 2047MB | N/A Default | |-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------| | Compute processes: GPU Memory | | GPU PID Process name Usage | |=============================================================================| | 0. ERROR: Not Supported | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ nvidia-settings is reporting one GPU....as far as I know, this card has one GPU... Or is "performance" for the NVidia-guys the same as "load" for the Linux-community? NVidia-settings show the highest possible values for clock speed, RAM speed etc. though. The performance percentage also does not depend on the complexity of the scene I render... It remains.....hrrrmmm....interesting ;) Best regards mcc
