Am I running my graphics card at 5 GT/s?

[mtasquared]

I am running a GTX 760, unflashed. I'm staring at the CUDA-Z output and after googling a bit I think I'm running 5 GT/s and at full clocks but I'm not sure! Please chime in if you can interpret this bunch of numbers.



CUDA-Z Report
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Version: 0.7.184 http://cuda-z.sf.net/
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.8.5 12F37
Driver Version: 8.16.74 310.40.00.10f02
Driver Dll Version: 5.50
Runtime Dll Version: 5.0

Core Information
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Name: GK104
Compute Capability: 3.0
Clock Rate: 1124 MHz
PCI Location: 0:6:0
Multiprocessors: 6 (1152 Cores)
Therds Per Multiproc.: 2048
Warp Size: 32
Regs Per Block: 65536
Threads Per Block: 1024
Threads Dimensions: 1024 x 1024 x 64
Grid Dimensions: 2147483647 x 65535 x 65535
Watchdog Enabled: Yes
Integrated GPU: No
Concurrent Kernels: Yes
Compute Mode: Default

Memory Information
------------------
Total Global: 2047.81 MiB
Bus Width: 256 bits
Clock Rate: 3004 MHz
Error Correction: No
L2 Cache Size: 48 KiB
Shared Per Block: 48 KiB
Pitch: 2048 MiB
Total Constant: 64 KiB
Texture Alignment: 512 B
Texture 1D Size: 65536
Texture 2D Size: 65536 x 65536
Texture 3D Size: 4096 x 4096 x 4096
GPU Overlap: Yes
Map Host Memory: Yes
Unified Addressing: No
Async Engine: Yes, Unidirectional

Performance Information
-----------------------
Memory Copy
Host Pinned to Device: 5597.19 MiB/s
Host Pageable to Device: 5250.99 MiB/s
Device to Host Pinned: 6315.58 MiB/s
Device to Host Pageable: 5450.8 MiB/s
Device to Device: 66.6016 GiB/s
GPU Core Performance
Single-precision Float: 1599.19 Gflop/s
Double-precision Float: 115.221 Gflop/s
32-bit Integer: 458.761 Giop/s
24-bit Integer: 458.078 Giop/s

Generated: Fri Sep 27 20:05:11 2013

 

[flowrider]

You need to:

1. Go to "About This Mac - Under the Apple on the far left.

2. Click on "More Info" toward the bottom of the box.

3. Click on "System Report" on the left side of the box.

4. Scroll down to PCI Cards.

5. The fist item on the list should be the Video card, look below it and you'll see something that looks like the attached.

6. Look at "Link Speed"

Lou

 

[mtasquared]

You need to:

1. Go to "About This Mac - Under the Apple on the far left.

2. Click on "More Info" toward the bottom of the box.

3. Click on "System Report" on the left side of the box.

4. Scroll down to PCI Cards.

5. The fist item on the list should be the Video card, look below it and you'll see something that looks like the attached.

6. Look at "Link Speed"

Lou

Thanks Lou, but I tried that and it says "There was an error while gathering PCI card information."

I googled this more and apparently there is a very messy way of checking the link speed involving stressing the card and using a utility to check link state at the same time. Something to do tomorrow, if no quick answer.

 

[N19h7m4r3]

Thanks Lou, but I tried that and it says "There was an error while gathering PCI card information."

I googled this more and apparently there is a very messy way of checking the link speed involving stressing the card and using a utility to check link state at the same time. Something to do tomorrow, if no quick answer.

That means you don't have a card with an EFI ROM. Mine says the exact same because I'm using a GTX 660.

 

[m4v3r1ck]

Thanks Lou, but I tried that and it says "There was an error while gathering PCI card information."

I googled this more and apparently there is a very messy way of checking the link speed involving stressing the card and using a utility to check link state at the same time. Something to do tomorrow, if no quick answer.

And for the GTX670FTW the same!

 

[flowrider]

That means you don't have a card with an EFI ROM. Mine says the exact same because I'm using a GTX 660.

Yep - That's what it means!

Lou

 

[RoastingPig]

if your running the web driver than yes it's at 5.0...can't guarantee that with native osx drivers though

 

[N19h7m4r3]

if your running the web driver than yes it's at 5.0...can't guarantee that with native osx drivers though

The latest web drivers from NVIIDA keep giving my Graphics Kernal crashing in FCPX and iMovie. Went back to the OS X drivers.

 

[mtasquared]

Cool, thanks for the info, guys!

I'll try to figure out what speed I am at using OSX drivers before switching to web drivers.

I guess the cuda-z output wasn't helpful?

I don't know why I shouldn't have the same issues as other non-EFI cards regarding link speed and clock rates. Just think I'm special

 

[xcodeSyn]

I guess the cuda-z output wasn't helpful?

If you know that 5 GT/s is equivalent to 4 Gb/s or 500 MB/s, then you can easily figure out that for PCI e 2.0 x16, the theoretical transfer rate is 8000 MB/s or 7629 MiB/s. Given that your CUDA-Z results indicated 5597.19 MiB/s and 6315.58 MiB/s for Host to Device and Device to Host performance, it's clear that they are within the PCIe 2.0 range since the PCIe 1.1 x16 spec is only up to 4000 MB/s or 3814 MiB/s.

 

[mtasquared]

If you know that 5 GT/s is equivalent to 4 Gb/s or 500 MB/s, then you can easily figure out that for PCI e 2.0 x16, the theoretical transfer rate is 8000 MB/s or 7629 MiB/s. Given that your CUDA-Z results indicated 5597.19 MiB/s and 6315.58 MiB/s for Host to Device and Device to Host performance, it's clear that they are within the PCIe 2.0 range since the PCIe 1.1 x16 spec is only up to 4000 MB/s or 3814 MiB/s.

Thanks xcodeSyn! That's what I thought, but I wasn't sure. So, in a nutshell, under OSX 10.8.5 the 760 runs at PCIe 2.0, full gpu and memory clocks, 5GT/s. What you lose is EFI boot screen only. On the Windows side, I find that it runs at full gpu and memory clocks but only PCIe 1.1 speeds (see below). The internet says I'm below PCIe 1.1 bandwidth limits but 2.0 speeds would be slightly better. Can't say I can do anything about it though, so I think I'll just go play Crysis 3 now. Thanks, guys!




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