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Message 35846 - Posted: 19 Jan 2010, 23:49:45 UTC
Last modified: 21 Jan 2010, 3:21:56 UTC

Milkyway@Home requires a GPU supporting Double Precision arithmetic.

NVIDIA:
Compute Capability 1.3 and Above
Example Products:
Geforce GTX 295
Geforce GTX 285
Geforce GTX 280
Geforce GTX 275 (credits to Bruce)
Geforce GTX 260
Tesla S1070
Tesla C1060
Quadro Plex 2200 D2
Quadro FX 5800
Quadro FX 4800
(Based on GT200 GPU)

ATI:
Example Products:
ATI HD Radeon 5970 (credits to kashi)
ATI HD Radeon 5870
ATI HD Radeon 5850
ATI HD Radeon 4890
ATI HD Radeon 4870
ATI HD Radeon 4850
ATI HD Radeon 4770
ATI HD Radeon 4830
ATI HD Radeon 38x0
(credits to cenit for the AMD documentation describing the products above)
ATI Firestream 9270
ATI Firestream 9250
ATI Firestream 9170
(credits to Cluster Physik)

Please post other working products and this list will be updated as time goes on.
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Message 35847 - Posted: 19 Jan 2010, 23:50:56 UTC
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you're forgetting fabulous ATi HD 4770.


edit: I'm still asking myself how ATi decided to not include DP on 57xx series...

edit2: this pdf from ATi
http://developer.amd.com/gpu/ATIStreamSDK/assets/ATI_Stream_SDK_Getting_Started_Guide_v2.0.pdf has all the data that you could need. Go to last page, section 4
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Message 35849 - Posted: 20 Jan 2010, 0:12:43 UTC

GTX 275 works pretty good.
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Message 35852 - Posted: 20 Jan 2010, 2:01:47 UTC - in response to Message 35847.  

Thanks for pointing out the 57XX cards.. looks like a 58XX card for me next!!
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Message 35857 - Posted: 20 Jan 2010, 9:52:59 UTC

What about the current king of crunch?

ATI HD Radeon 5970
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Message 35863 - Posted: 20 Jan 2010, 20:30:42 UTC
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HD 57x0 series missing Double Precision is kind of shame.
I asked AMD about it and there is answer:
Double precision floating point operations are not required for any known or anticipated GPU compute applications for consumers (i.e. gaming, multimedia, and productivity), where single precision processing is sufficient. Implementing high performance DP FP processing in hardware carries significant costs in terms of die size and power consumption, and wouldn’t provide any value to the vast majority of our customers. This is the main reason why all of the companies who participated in the definition of the new industry standard OpenCL and DirectCompute APIs agreed to make this an optional feature.

That being said, there are some high performance computing applications in the scientific or industrial fields where double precision can be beneficial, so we chose to include that capability in our most powerful GPUs to provide an attractive solution for those markets as well.
- Antal Tungler

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Message 35870 - Posted: 20 Jan 2010, 23:33:24 UTC - in response to Message 35846.  

Please post other working products and this list will be updated as time goes on.

If you include the Teslas, you can also add the ATI Firestream 9170, 9250 and 9270 cards.
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Message 36404 - Posted: 10 Feb 2010, 23:36:57 UTC

Geforce GT 240M

Getting the Message: Your NVIDIA GPU lacks the needed compute capability

No Mobile GPUs?
Only GTX?

Will there be an Update for those?
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Message 36406 - Posted: 11 Feb 2010, 0:35:03 UTC - in response to Message 36404.  

Presumably the message means that your card doesn't support Double Precision calculations - unfortunately, this project relies on that capability.
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Message 36413 - Posted: 11 Feb 2010, 10:36:30 UTC - in response to Message 35846.  

What is a normal (crunch)time for MW-wu using GTX295?
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Message 36616 - Posted: 17 Feb 2010, 17:29:28 UTC
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:/ pfff


17/02/2010 18:19:28 NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce 8400 GS (driver version 19562, CUDA version 3000, compute capability 1.1, 256MB, 43 GFLOPS peak)
17/02/2010 19:15:06 NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce 8400 GS (driver version 19621, CUDA version 3000, compute capability 1.1, 256MB, 43 GFLOPS peak)




17/02/2010 18:25:49 Milkyway@home Sending scheduler request: To fetch work.
17/02/2010 18:25:49 Milkyway@home Requesting new tasks for GPU
17/02/2010 18:25:54 Milkyway@home Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
17/02/2010 18:25:54 Milkyway@home Message from server: No work sent
17/02/2010 18:25:54 Milkyway@home Message from server: Your computer has no ATI GPU
17/02/2010 18:25:54 Milkyway@home Message from server: Your NVIDIA GPU lacks the needed compute capability (1.3, required for double precision math
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Message 36624 - Posted: 17 Feb 2010, 18:45:22 UTC - in response to Message 36413.  

I'm getting 13 minutes per work unit on my gtx 295 (no overclocking or anything). ive turned in 10 GPU results for a 169 average per.
CPU is still waiting to finish even one WU per core :> 16% at an hour for an I7 920 slightly OC'd
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Message 36854 - Posted: 28 Feb 2010, 19:50:28 UTC - in response to Message 36624.  

12.5 to 13.25 minutes on a gtx260 no oc
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Message 36915 - Posted: 4 Mar 2010, 2:08:00 UTC

Stock Performance stats:

GTX 260 Core 216 ~ 13 minute runtime
HD4850 ~ 4 minute runtime
HD5850 ~ 2 Minute runtime
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Message 36942 - Posted: 4 Mar 2010, 19:51:11 UTC

Hi Gang,
I'm running an ATI Radeon 9200, any reason why this is not up to specs ?



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Message 36946 - Posted: 4 Mar 2010, 22:19:21 UTC - in response to Message 36942.  

Hi Gang,
I'm running an ATI Radeon 9200, any reason why this is not up to specs ?



Too old. You need a double precision card.
Doesn't expecting the unexpected make the unexpected the expected?
If it makes sense, DON'T do it.
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Message 36954 - Posted: 5 Mar 2010, 0:03:31 UTC - in response to Message 36946.  

Hi Gang,
I'm running an ATI Radeon 9200, any reason why this is not up to specs ?



Too old. You need a double precision card.


You need a card that has HD in its name and it can be any of these,
38xx
4770
48xx
58xx
Firestream 9100/9200 series
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Message 36978 - Posted: 5 Mar 2010, 21:47:51 UTC - in response to Message 36954.  

Thanks for the info.
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Message 37111 - Posted: 9 Mar 2010, 23:03:36 UTC
Last modified: 9 Mar 2010, 23:04:59 UTC

Anybody got WU run times for the new HD5830 (s/b on list I believe also)?

Trying to decide if I wanna upgrade a HD4850 with one of these.
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Message 37118 - Posted: 10 Mar 2010, 4:20:12 UTC - in response to Message 37111.  

Anybody got WU run times for the new HD5830 (s/b on list I believe also)?

Trying to decide if I wanna upgrade a HD4850 with one of these.


Talk to me tomorrow as that is when it arrives at my house.

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