Dear Otoy,
I am considering a dual 980m SLI laptop like the Aorus x7 pro (http://www.aorus.com/x7pro.aspx) and would really appreciate your input.
Being that the 970m is a Maxwell based gpu, will it work in octane v2.2 as efficiently as kepler based gpu?
Also, if I disable SLI in the nvidia panel will octane take advantage of both 970m's?
Finally, provided dual maxwell mobile gpus are supported in v2.2, will the speed be comparable to a single desktop titan gtx or at least a 780 gtx?
Thanks in advance!
Marvil
Will a 970m (dual sli laptop) work with octane v2.2?
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I don't see why this would not work in octane.
It's recommended to disable SLI in the nvidia control panel - sometimes having this enabled can cause problems in octane.
Octane does not need SLI to be able to use both GPU's
I'm not sure about the performance. I would assume you would get speeds in the ballpark of a 780 or Titan, although without hard benchmarks it's only a guess based of the cards stats.
It's recommended to disable SLI in the nvidia control panel - sometimes having this enabled can cause problems in octane.
Octane does not need SLI to be able to use both GPU's
I'm not sure about the performance. I would assume you would get speeds in the ballpark of a 780 or Titan, although without hard benchmarks it's only a guess based of the cards stats.
Thanks for your reply. Doesn't seem to be much info at the moment. But found some ramdom testing by some guys here- http://www.overclock.net/t/1514149/octa ... se-help/20
Their benchmarks seem to mostly indicate that the 980 in octane pathtracing is much, much slower than a 780.
It would be great to get a more reliable report from otoy though.
Their benchmarks seem to mostly indicate that the 980 in octane pathtracing is much, much slower than a 780.
It would be great to get a more reliable report from otoy though.
Marvil wrote:Thanks for your reply. Doesn't seem to be much info at the moment. But found some ramdom testing by some guys here- http://www.overclock.net/t/1514149/octa ... se-help/20
Their benchmarks seem to mostly indicate that the 980 in octane pathtracing is much, much slower than a 780.
It would be great to get a more reliable report from otoy though.
firstly programmers create the code, not for them to test it on countless devices after every release..
other thing - Your link has old info.. as far as I know 980 performs close to 780..by now with new releases.. (don't look for octane Benchmark result outside Octane forums 'cos that info might be old)
last think don't mistake mobile parts..they are not as fast as desktop cards..so..in the end things goes like this:
performance is hard to predict, cos it depends..on a lot of things - one of which will be how that laptop cope with heat..- if GPUs are going to reach certain temperature they will be throttled down - it doesn't matte how fast is the card - more important is at what environment it operates (that makes HUGE difference).