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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti
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Is this the hack where you open the relevant text file and add the name of the card to it?
Are you guys who are seeing performance problems running the 980Ti by itself with no other cards installed? What about multiple monitors?
I see laggy performance if I connect a second monitor (DVI) to the GT120 while the 980Ti is also connected to my primary monitor (4K via DP)...
I only connect the GT120 is when I need a boot screen or updates.
I see laggy performance if I connect a second monitor (DVI) to the GT120 while the 980Ti is also connected to my primary monitor (4K via DP)...
I only connect the GT120 is when I need a boot screen or updates.
I am using only GTX 980 Ti. Could you please share your experience with the card? Mine for example, I was watching Youtube and had couple of web pages open in Safari and it started to slow down. It gets stuck occasionally, temps are ok now with my pcie fans up to 1150 RPM. I will test on Windows..I hope I do not have a faulty card on hands
CC must be seeing it if it’s using OpenCL, no? Also, are you trying this in just Photoshop or in After Effects too?
I can't say I have had any trouble with slowness at all with just the 980Ti connected. No heat issues or slowness. Games have also been running smoothly. EliteI am using only GTX 980 Ti. Could you please share your experience with the card? Mine for example, I was watching Youtube and had couple of web pages open in Safari and it started to slow down. It gets stuck occasionally, temps are ok now with my pcie fans up to 1150 RPM. I will test on Windows..I hope I do not have a faulty card on hands
angerous for example at 4k resolution, full settings. Did a good 7 hours of continuous play yesterday without any issue. Have my card installed 2 weeks now.
I can't say I have had any trouble with slowness at all with just the 980Ti connected. No heat issues or slowness. Games have also been running smoothly. Elite
Have my card installed 2 weeks now.
Thanks for sharing, there is another post about the opengl performance issue here.
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Yes, I thought having the AUX PSU was a nice add-on back in 2011 until I saw another thread here recently where they tap power directly from the Apple PSU, that is so cool and clever.
Sadly I have returned my 980 Ti. For gaming it is a very good card and a good upgrade. But I always had to switch back and forth with my AMD card for working and so on. + I have El Capitan on another partition and I had to swap out cards again if i wanted to test some legacy apps and scripts on El Cap (no nvidia drivers yet for El Capitan).
So to conclude, if you need CUDA for your apps and want to have the best affordable single card for gaming on cMP, then definitely go for Nvidia 900 series. If you need OpenCL/GL for your apps/work, then go AMD and you can also game at low settings (280X is not that bad).
Yes, I thought having the AUX PSU was a nice add-on back in 2011 until I saw another thread here recently where they tap power directly from the Apple PSU, that is so cool and clever.
Sadly I have returned my 980 Ti. For gaming it is a very good card and a good upgrade. But I always had to switch back and forth with my AMD card for working and so on. + I have El Capitan on another partition and I had to swap out cards again if i wanted to test some legacy apps and scripts on El Cap (no nvidia drivers yet for El Capitan).
So to conclude, if you need CUDA for your apps and want to have the best affordable single card for gaming on cMP, then definitely go for Nvidia 900 series. If you need OpenCL/GL for your apps/work, then go AMD and you can also game at low settings (280X is not that bad).
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Yes the PSU hack is clean and sexy and has none of the optical bay PSU's problems.
So is the 980 Ti problem consistent with apps like Adobe's CC suite? I was thinking of buying one, but I use LightRoom and Photoshop for work and don't want to deal with a laggy/buggy system.
Is it Elite Dangerous worth my time? I'm worried it hasn't got a story and some 12 years old kid in Tokyo is gonna kill me every time I log on.
Your poor sentence structure ruins the sarcasm. Why do people like you even bother responding? You put as much effort into a childish response as you would have legitimately answering the question.
I'm simply wondering if anyone else has experienced problems using the GTX 980 Ti with Adobe's CC suite, or if what I have read from Kennyman is an isolated case. I don't particularly think what I am asking is an unreasonable question.
I'm so sorry. I just wanted to know if I could log on to the Internet without someone trying to shoot me down for no good reason ...ahem
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I'm surprised to read about these issues with the 980Ti. I've been using a Titan X for 2 months now which is very close to the 980Ti with none of the issues described. I bet it's a driver issue and hope for you it'll be resolved in a future update. This shouldn't be power related as a lack of power would most likely shut down the computer or crash the card.
No need to be like that... And yes, I use Lightroom and some Photoshop. No issues with those apps either.
That is a harder question to answer without knowing if you like space sims or open world (galaxy) samdbox games. Will say there is a solo mode so you never have to encounter another player.
I've been fiddling with my system for the last week and I am coming to the conclusion that it may not be the 980ti 's problem. The card works wonderfully in Cuda and games, and I am starting to doubt the OpenCL bug theory too. But I am getting artifacting and muddy, laggy UI... So, latest theory; I think it's the 4k display. When I switch to the native iMac resolution of 2560 x 1440 it is really smooth, really fast and like a new machine. Anything above that to 4k and it goes good for a bit, then gets the UI issues. Reading over at the nMP forum I see they have problems with 4k displays too and timing issues with Yosemite. So I am going to run it at a lower resolution for a bit, turn off my cooling fan settings and see what happens. It seems to work at native 4k too, but its just so damn small in the OS that I can't work in that space for long. keep you posted.
Hello,
It depends, according to some posts here, people have reported success. Since you use Photoshop and LightRoom (photo related), I think it will be good if you ask on the photography section on MR, you can also try Adobe or creative cow forum. Adobe has some info on the GPU cards here.
Personally, it did not work for me, so I decided to return the card. It is definitely a powerful card for gaming. But I bought the card for its CUDA processing power and also wanted to use it for OpenCL/GL tasks. I did not see any big improvement on my apps such as CC 2015, CAD, Maya and so on with CUDA, in fact all of these apps can use OpenCL/GL too, but OpenCL/GL performance is not that good on OSX with GTX 980Ti with the latest drivers, it was reported here as well that Premiere did not like CUDA and Yosemite ( I actually completely ignored that post and went ahead anyway to test one myself).
I would still suggest to try it out first before drawing any conclusions. Sometimes plug-ins also can cause video card to run slow and i have a lot of plug-ins on some of my files. So far, it looks like my apps that I use everyday are ok with AMD`s OpenCL framework. I just could not justify the extra cost to keep the Nvidia card with all the issues that I was having with it and I had to swapped out the card out every time when I boot into El Capitan (no Nvidia driver yet for 980Ti).
Overall, AMD 7970/280X is a decent card, cost-performance is good. The drivers for AMD cards is optimized on OSX compare to Nvidia`s current 900 series driver and OpenCL computing power from AMD`s cards is better than GTX 980Ti on both Windows and OSX, check the Luxmark score on Windows here.
I am sure Nvidia will release new drivers, i will keep using my AMD card for now and wait.
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I'm not sure if the nvidia mac drivers behave the same but I'm still using my pc 3-way SLI GTX680 setup because two of them can give the standard 980 a run for its money if I don't use all the vram. They do fairly well for cad/cam/cae even though they are gaming cards, not workstation cards, and can crunch some decent Folding@home numbers although the TDP is pretty bad. Writing off the contribution on my taxes anyway. I plan to upgrade every two generations of the standard cards and since the 970's are really not a new generation I plan to upgrade to the 980 replacements. Real replacements, not an overclocked pseudo generation.
Ideally I'd like a story mode and a very big open universe. Like GTA in space. I'm terribly no good at multiplayer games. The dedicated kids just kill my enthusiasm.
I have a Dell p2415q 4k LCD running in "retina mode" 1690p. What model is your monitor? Maybe it is something else you guys have running that I don't?