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Message 24097 - Posted: 23 Mar 2012 | 12:24:33 UTC

Hi everybody,
requesting more CUDA calculation power from my Nvidia Quadro 2000M GPU card in applications like GPUGrid I was looking at solution like Vidock 4 + in combination with ATI cards (7970) or new Kepler based cards.
I know from Vidok site that mounting an Nvidia GPU card in my M4600 the best choice would be the ATI configuration, but my first information I was searching for was if someone of you, GPUGrid user, had experience with Vidock solution.

Thank you in advance.
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Message 24098 - Posted: 23 Mar 2012 | 13:39:07 UTC - in response to Message 24097.

Your unspecified laptop would need an Express Card slot. You would need to carefully check you laptop's spec and the Vidock 4 specifications in relation to PCIE.

You're not going to get any more CUDA calculation power from an ATI card (it doesn't do CUDA), and GPUGrid hasn't released a GCN app to support the new-ish ATI/AMD cards.

Until an app is debugged/redeveloped for Kepler, it would be too speculative to invest in such a setup for a laptop to crunch on here.
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Message 24105 - Posted: 23 Mar 2012 | 15:57:23 UTC - in response to Message 24098.

Skgiven,
many thanks for your reply.

As shown in the title of the thread my laptop is a Dell Precision M4600 equipped with a Quadro 2000M overclocked with MSI afterburner.
My laptop is also equipped with a 54mm Express Card slot (PCIe x16).

Thank you a lot for your information about CUDA calculation and GPUGrid update on these new GPU.

I will wait for new GCN app.

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Message 24108 - Posted: 23 Mar 2012 | 16:32:11 UTC - in response to Message 24105.

I think this is what you have:

Quadro 2000M GF106 40nm PCIe 2.0 x16 2048 550 1100 1800 192:32:16
Performance would be ~1/5th of a GTX570/GTX480 - realistically ~381GFlops peak;
Laptop GPU's are really quite poor. Even the Quadro 5010M (GF110GLM) only has a rating of 691GFlops peak (less than half of a GTX470).

Wait and see how the GF600 pans out. I don't know if there are any plans for a GCN app or not. Might depend on how the GF600 fairs.
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