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Dual GTX 680 4GB make my 2010 12-core Fly!
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Just to put it out there, this is kinda what I wanna do with a Mac Pro 5,1.
Hands down, you have the best/most powerful mac pro. In the world.
Hands down, you have the best/most powerful mac pro. In the world.
Mac Pro Max
No SLI bridge as SLI is disabled. I do no gaming. I actually work in windows about 75% of the time using Solidworks for cad and Bunkspeed Shot for rendering. Shot uses a rendering engine from Nvidia called iRay. It directly utilizes all CUDA cores available. There is no benefit from SLI and SLI can actually cause issues with iRay's performance.
No SLI bridge as SLI is disabled. I do no gaming. I actually work in windows about 75% of the time using Solidworks for cad and Bunkspeed Shot for rendering. Shot uses a rendering engine from Nvidia called iRay. It directly utilizes all CUDA cores available. There is no benefit from SLI and SLI can actually cause issues with iRay's performance.
No Risk Here.
Have you ever heard this old line ? TIME = MONEY
Well it's true. I do CAD, rendering & graphics work freelance. A few months ago I started a render before going to bed and when I got up in the morning it said I had 5 1/2 hours left to render. Basically tying up my Mac for 13+ hours. I needed a solution. After a little research, I upgraded my processors and popped in the dual 680's. I can now complete that same exact render in 1 hour 15 minutes. Within one month the time I saved paid for the upgrades. My rendering program, Bunkspeed Shot is a hybrid renderer that can utilize all 24 3.3GHz CPU threads and all 3,072 GPU CUDA Cores at the same time on the same render making this possible.
If I had room for another 680 I'd pop one in tomorrow.
Far from "risking your money on a bet".
I could care less about "official support". I run my own life.
Have you ever heard this old line ? TIME = MONEY
Well it's true. I do CAD, rendering & graphics work freelance. A few months ago I started a render before going to bed and when I got up in the morning it said I had 5 1/2 hours left to render. Basically tying up my Mac for 13+ hours. I needed a solution. After a little research, I upgraded my processors and popped in the dual 680's. I can now complete that same exact render in 1 hour 15 minutes. Within one month the time I saved paid for the upgrades. My rendering program, Bunkspeed Shot is a hybrid renderer that can utilize all 24 3.3GHz CPU threads and all 3,072 GPU CUDA Cores at the same time on the same render making this possible.
If I had room for another 680 I'd pop one in tomorrow.
Far from "risking your money on a bet".
I could care less about "official support". I run my own life.
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You can enable SLI using HyperSLI patch (on Windows 7). I tried it with two 560 Ti's.
If you need a more information, PM me.
Anyway, GTX 690 doen't need this patch.
Hmm, what can I say. I know, that my MP can't cover needs of 690, but I don't want to buy another PC just for games for 10-20% performance boost. And don't want to reconnect my shiny Cinema 30" every time I want to play. And don't want ugly box under the table.
p. S.Then, it looks good in Pro
Octane
I haven't tried Octane yet but I have my eye on it. I imagine speeds will be on par with Bunkspeed which is blazing fast. I tried to use a couple CPU renderers (Maxwell, Maya) but after you use a GPU renderer it's very painful to go back. It's like 1 hour or 10 hours for the same render. BIG difference.
Also looking at Arion.... Another hybrid. (cpu&gpu)
I haven't tried Octane yet but I have my eye on it. I imagine speeds will be on par with Bunkspeed which is blazing fast. I tried to use a couple CPU renderers (Maxwell, Maya) but after you use a GPU renderer it's very painful to go back. It's like 1 hour or 10 hours for the same render. BIG difference.
Also looking at Arion.... Another hybrid. (cpu&gpu)
Request for help on SLI GTX680 in Mac Pro 5,1
Hi all and thank you for taking the time to read my request.
I have a 2011 Mac Pro 5,1 12 core updated with ML and running Win 7 X64 Ultimate in bootcamp.
I was wondering if anyone has installed 2 GTX680 in SLI and got it to work in windows 7?
I have 2 MSI GTX 680 4gb OC (both works well so it dosent seem to be a card problem)
I have tried to install hypersli 0.96 and it seems to install well. But everytime I try to activate SLI in Nvidia Control Panel, the screen starts to flash and graphics controller stops working then Comp reboots.
Tried with a host of driver options as well, but seeing as there is so many I was hoping someone may have done it and suceeded and can give me a helping hand in setting it up?
Thank you in advance !
Mo
Hi all and thank you for taking the time to read my request.
I have a 2011 Mac Pro 5,1 12 core updated with ML and running Win 7 X64 Ultimate in bootcamp.
I was wondering if anyone has installed 2 GTX680 in SLI and got it to work in windows 7?
I have 2 MSI GTX 680 4gb OC (both works well so it dosent seem to be a card problem)
I have tried to install hypersli 0.96 and it seems to install well. But everytime I try to activate SLI in Nvidia Control Panel, the screen starts to flash and graphics controller stops working then Comp reboots.
Tried with a host of driver options as well, but seeing as there is so many I was hoping someone may have done it and suceeded and can give me a helping hand in setting it up?
Thank you in advance !
Mo
Hmm, I tried HyperSLI 0.96 with two GTX 560 Ti on my MacPro3,1, everything worked well. Are you using SLI bridge?
The beta didn't work for me but I was able to sli my 2 670s, with the latest version of hypersli I believe. You will have to select when your Mac boots up the sli option. I believe you can set that as default so you don't have to keep selecting it.
Just try different versions until one works. I have a 4,1.
The OP does run dual 680s but he doesn't SLI them.
Just try different versions until one works. I have a 4,1.
The OP does run dual 680s but he doesn't SLI them.
So what kind of render times are you seeing with these? And before the installation?
Oh, NM, I just read up a bit... Basically a 5x speed increase, right?
https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/16778066/
And for less than the cost of adding 4 more complete machines to your farm... Nice!
Oh, NM, I just read up a bit... Basically a 5x speed increase, right?
https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/16778066/
And for less than the cost of adding 4 more complete machines to your farm... Nice!
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Request for help on SLI GTX680 in Mac Pro 5,1
Dear all,
Thank you for your replys. It seems to be the Nvidia Graphic Dirver which is at fault with my setup as the message that comes up each time it freezes and recovers is " xxxx driver has stopped responing and has recovered". This goes on for a few times and then it reboots and I cant get it to load up on screen once I pass the password login phase. I've tried with 310.90, 310.70 (modded and unmodded) and 313.xxbeta. Was wondering what drivers you all use and do you hypersli in hardware or software mode. Also is there any need to enable anything in the boot windows + hypersli selection page.
So close yet so far
Thank you all again!
Dear all,
Thank you for your replys. It seems to be the Nvidia Graphic Dirver which is at fault with my setup as the message that comes up each time it freezes and recovers is " xxxx driver has stopped responing and has recovered". This goes on for a few times and then it reboots and I cant get it to load up on screen once I pass the password login phase. I've tried with 310.90, 310.70 (modded and unmodded) and 313.xxbeta. Was wondering what drivers you all use and do you hypersli in hardware or software mode. Also is there any need to enable anything in the boot windows + hypersli selection page.
So close yet so far
Thank you all again!
I used 306.xx, 46 or 97, don't remember, WHQL precisely. And HyperSLI 0.9 or similar. Anyway I don't have these 560 Ti now, so I can't check latest HyperSLI or drivers.
Nice build the only thing I would change is that I would of made the cables black so it looks great together, but that's me. Can you please post some screenshots in About This Mac and system profiler.
Thanks
A newbe question..
Hello Stealth,
First of all many thanks for this interesting thread/post and the impressive work on the rendering job on the posted grabcad link.
At the moment I am planing to get a workstation for solidworks 2012. Since its a home project and not work related I will go for a MacPro from 2010. Now here is the question:
Since I have only one Cinema Display 27 at the moment, would a dual GPU setup make sense for me? I assume you use two displays with your setup.
I am wondering, can a MacPro with only one screen even take advantage of two cards that are not linked through SLI or Crossfire?
Hello Stealth,
First of all many thanks for this interesting thread/post and the impressive work on the rendering job on the posted grabcad link.
At the moment I am planing to get a workstation for solidworks 2012. Since its a home project and not work related I will go for a MacPro from 2010. Now here is the question:
Since I have only one Cinema Display 27 at the moment, would a dual GPU setup make sense for me? I assume you use two displays with your setup.
I am wondering, can a MacPro with only one screen even take advantage of two cards that are not linked through SLI or Crossfire?