Message boards : Questions and problems : Why has BOINC no benchmark for GPUs?
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Send message Joined: 2 Apr 16 Posts: 3 |
Hi, when I register a new client Boinc does a CPU benchmark. But there is no benchmark for my GPU. Why not? GPUs do the work more efficiently and are more powerfull than CPUs. But without a GPU benchmark there is no classification of GPU power possible. regards Veit |
Send message Joined: 5 Oct 06 Posts: 5149 ![]() |
The relative speed of a GPU is calculated from the card geometry when the device is detected and queried by BOINC at startup. That "GFLOPS peak" value is used instead of a benchmark. |
Send message Joined: 2 Apr 16 Posts: 3 |
Hi, where or how can I see this value? Veit |
Send message Joined: 5 Oct 06 Posts: 5149 ![]() |
In BOINC's Event Log at startup. This machine says 28-Mar-2016 09:23:02 [---] CUDA: NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce GTX 970 (driver version 350.12, CUDA version 7.0, compute capability 5.2, 4096MB, 3903MB available, 4087 GFLOPS peak) Note that I usually refer to these as theoretical or 'Marketing' FLOPS - they are never achieved in practice by any practical scientific computing program. |
Send message Joined: 2 Apr 16 Posts: 3 |
Hi, OK I had found it. Is this the SP or the DP peak? How can I repeat this after an upgrade of my graphic card? veit |
Send message Joined: 5 Oct 06 Posts: 5149 ![]() |
I think it's SP. Now, if you can upgrade you graphic card without restarting BOINC, I'd like to know how. Otherwise, look at the Event Log after the next restart. |
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