AE CS6 11.0.1 CUDA BENCHMARK PROJECT – test your graphics cards!

[Tenchi Muyo]

I fix the Far Cry 3 shuttering with a CMOS clear/reset an reinsert the cards,
during this i destroyed my third pci-e slot for my third Titan.:(

[Ian Mapleson]

Can you RMA you motherboard? What model is it? (just curious)

Note that Gigabyte GA-X79-UD3 boards sell quite cheaply these
days – I bought one for only 65 UKP recently.

Ian.

SGI Guru

[Tenchi Muyo]

No, it was my fault as you can see in my first screen i had 3xtitan and 1xgtx680 classified in my pc,
i want to remove the gtx680 and it makes real problems so i damaged the pci-e slot.
No cards are recognized here.

It was a Asus REIV mobo, today i get two boards:

the REIV and the Black Edition of the REIV.

My wish is to take the Black,
but i have this for months ago but it has a lots of problems
(pc turns off during slight cpu usage).

Otherwise I choose the good old REIV,
because it runs perfect – one advantage of this board:

when using 3-way sli you have between all cards one slot free.

I’am thinking about the ASUS P9X79-E WS too, but with most cpu coolers the first pci-e Slot is blocked. Then it has two PLX Chips (of course) but this raise the power consumtion and heat and maybe i will get some (additional) lags during gaming. So i won’t risk it.

Another interessting board: ASRock Fatal1ty X79 Champion
but it has a big problem in my eyes:

the fourth pci-e slot runs only at PCIe 2.0 and never PCIe 3.0 (the other three PCIe did).

Running a mobo with pcie 3.0 x8 is the same speed as pcie 2.0 x16.

[Ian Mapleson]

Tenchi writes:
> i want to remove the gtx680 and it makes real problems so i damaged the
> pci-e slot.
> No cards are recognized here.

Sorry to hear that. :\

You never know though, it may be worth trying to get the damaged
board returned under warranty. Have you tried?

> but i have this for month ago but it has a lots of problems
> (pc turns off during slight cpu usage).

I assume the BIOS & drivers are all up to date, yes?

> Otherwise a choose the good old REIV, because it runs perfect – …

That’s similar to why I like the P9X79 WS (basically the same type of
board as the R4E); the newer E-WS has a better PCI Express setup, but
people have reported more problems with it. The standard WS is very
reliable (I’v ejust bought another one, only cost 170 UKP).

> … one advantage of this board:
> when using 3-way sli you have between all cards one slot free.

Ah yes, that’s why I liked the Asrock X58 Extreme6, it has a complete
empty slot between each card for 3-way CF/SLI. Alas this is not the case
with the WS, but it doesn’t matter because I chose the MSI LE version of
the GTX 580 (runs much cooler, totally different design to the reference
board, designed to cope with oc’s above 1GHz).

It’s a pity nobody makes a super-extended board with 7x PCIe, spread
across at least 10 slots, giving much more cooling space between cards,
and greater options to exploit additional cards such as RAID or 10GigE.

> I’am thinking about the ASUS P9X79-E WS too, but with most cpu coolers
> the first pci-e Slot is blocked. …

I had this issue initially (well, sort of; the HS pressed up against
the back of the first GTX 580), because I was using a large Phanteks
PH-TC14PE. I’ve solved this by replacing the Phanteks with a Corsair
H110, so now there is plenty of space around the CPU area, much easier
to access RAM, cool components, etc.

For the next 3930K system I’m building for someone just now, I’m using
the same mbd but fitted with a Corsair H100i instead.

> consumtion and heat and maybe i will get some (additional) lags during
> gaming. So i won’t risk it.

For gaming I’d say you’re better off with the R4E series. The advantage
of the WS is better support for RAID cards and more reliable with maxed
out RAM configurations, heavy loads, etc. Gaming doesn’t really stress
the whole system that much, but various pro apps do, eg. AE can hammer
all parts of a system at once, far more than any game.

> Another interessting board: ASRock Fatal1ty X79 Champion
> but it has a big problem in my eyes:
> the fourth pci-e slot runs only at PCIe 2.0 and never PCIe 3.0 (the other
> three PCIe did).

How odd…

I doubt it would make any difference in reality, but I can understand
why it would feel annoying.

There is of course the Asrock X79 Extreme11, but that’s overkill, not
really aimed at gaming. It’s more akin to the ASUS WS series, though
the lack of onboard RAID cache spoils it IMO.

Ian.

SGI Guru

[Tenchi Muyo]

updated my post with the 3xTitan:

3:03 min. @ 1xTitan SC
1:47 min. @ 2xTitan SC
1:30 min. @ 3xTitan SC

[Ian Mapleson]

Tenchi writes:

> 3:03 min. @ 1xTitan SC
> 1:47 min. @ 2xTitan SC
> 1:30 min. @ 3xTitan SC

Glad to see my original idea that 4×580 would be akin to
2xTitan is correct. Hopefully though soon I’ll be able to
show how multiple GPUs can scale more effectively than
this benchmark is able to demonstrate; test file is not
quite ready yet.

EDIT: Quadro K5000 does the test in 8 mins and 4 secs,
though this was on a different system with a lot less RAM
(ASUS M4E, i7 2700K @ 5GHz, 8GB/2133).

Ian.

SGI Guru

[Tenchi Muyo]

New Bench 🙂

4960X@4Ghz / Asus REIV / 64GB RAM

3:03 min. @ 1xTitan SC
1:47 min. @ 2xTitan SC
1:30 min. @ 3xTitan SC

4960X@4Ghz / Asus REIV Black Edition/ 64GB RAM

2:48 min. @ 1xTitan Black SC

BTW: here is another Bench “robot” for AE:

https://www.loopoutcontinue.com/cuda/

[Ian Mapleson]

Just curious, what did you do to speed up the result for
the single Titan? Or is it purely the change in mbd?

Btw, I find Arion to be a useful test, as it fully utilises
all GPUs (AE doesn’t do that yet).

Ian.

SGI Guru

[Tenchi Muyo]

I sold my Titan Classic cards.

Now i own ONE Titan Black.

Thats the speed difference.

[Ian Mapleson]

Oh I see! Apologies, I missed the different name of the
Titan card. 😀 Just curious, what is the core clock of
your Titan Black compared to the Classic you had before?

Btw, a couple more data points, using a 5GHz 2700K setup
with 32GB/2133 RAM):

Quadro 6000: 8m 7s
2x Quadro 6000: 4m 36s

Also, in case it’s of any interest, I’ve added some
Viewperf12 data to my site, for the moment using the
above 2700K system (which shows some major CPU bottlenecks
in several cases – looks like Viewperf12 needs more than
4 cores):

https://www.sgidepot.co.uk/misc/viewperf.txt

Ian.

SGI Guru