Hi,
sorry if its not the right place to post this!
I've got my 2 Titan X Pascals Cards today and still
want to use one of my old Titan as well.
So 3 Cards in total (2 x Titan X and 1 x old Titan.)
What drivers/driver should I install?
The newest for Titan X and also the newest for the old one?
Or only one GTX driver for all the 3 cards?
And one more:
whats the best setup to work in LV.
Connect the monitor to the old Titan and activate priority for this old card?
thanks
Mike
techn question about drivers
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hi Mike,
as for drivers You only need to install once, the newer versions that supports Pascal based Titans, it has all the data for older cards as well. keep in mind that if Your older Titan would not be seen You can try to uninstall drivers & roll back a version or two (some users had this issue & doing that solved this).
as for ideal setup I would say that using old Titan (assume it's 6GB card) for screen(s) & leavign TItanXs to render. Otherwise instead of 12 GB You would be able to see only 6 of usable vram since You're limited by the card with lower amount of vram. However if You're working with scenes less than 6GB, using all three cards would make sense. Speed wise original Titan is ~half as fast as new TitanX, so in total You would be looking for pretty small difference.
Another thing to test.. some users have some issues mixing cards (when one of them is new Pascal), not sure why that happens yet, so try to run unofficial benchmark tool or try to check on some of Your scenes how fast it goes with 2 compared to three cards =)
if You would have any questions, feel free to get in touch.
as for drivers You only need to install once, the newer versions that supports Pascal based Titans, it has all the data for older cards as well. keep in mind that if Your older Titan would not be seen You can try to uninstall drivers & roll back a version or two (some users had this issue & doing that solved this).
as for ideal setup I would say that using old Titan (assume it's 6GB card) for screen(s) & leavign TItanXs to render. Otherwise instead of 12 GB You would be able to see only 6 of usable vram since You're limited by the card with lower amount of vram. However if You're working with scenes less than 6GB, using all three cards would make sense. Speed wise original Titan is ~half as fast as new TitanX, so in total You would be looking for pretty small difference.
Another thing to test.. some users have some issues mixing cards (when one of them is new Pascal), not sure why that happens yet, so try to run unofficial benchmark tool or try to check on some of Your scenes how fast it goes with 2 compared to three cards =)
if You would have any questions, feel free to get in touch.
Hi Glimps,
rendering to PV with "use all GPU" is more than twice as fast
(2 old titan vers 1 old titan and 2 titan x). So this seams to be fine.
(Sure, when I need more VRam I have to disable the old Titan to
be able to use the 12 Gig of the two titans Xs)
As you have already mentioned, the newest driver for titan x
also weoks fine with the old titan.
Howether, I have the feeling, that the old Titan slows down the
performance in LV. Will need to test without the old Titan or maybe
change order in slots.
Btw as far as I know, Octane is working, but does atm not take full advantage of the new pascals.
Do you have any info, when Octane will be able to use the full power of Pascal?
thanks
Mike
rendering to PV with "use all GPU" is more than twice as fast
(2 old titan vers 1 old titan and 2 titan x). So this seams to be fine.
(Sure, when I need more VRam I have to disable the old Titan to
be able to use the 12 Gig of the two titans Xs)
As you have already mentioned, the newest driver for titan x
also weoks fine with the old titan.
Howether, I have the feeling, that the old Titan slows down the
performance in LV. Will need to test without the old Titan or maybe
change order in slots.
Btw as far as I know, Octane is working, but does atm not take full advantage of the new pascals.
Do you have any info, when Octane will be able to use the full power of Pascal?
thanks
Mike
Hi Mike.
You're right, Octane seems not be able utilizing full power, but OTOY mentioned that they manage to make breakthrue with help from nvidia & with release of 3.06 or so we should see octane running faster on these cards.
You're right, Octane seems not be able utilizing full power, but OTOY mentioned that they manage to make breakthrue with help from nvidia & with release of 3.06 or so we should see octane running faster on these cards.