Cuda 8 is out!

[smicha]

My 1080s are running at 95% at full render. Is native Cuda 8 support already implemented in latest release? Did I miss something?

It's a shame that Otoy does not respond to that issue at all.

Cheers - Ron

Ron,

Set parallel and tile samples to max and see the results.

[KonstantinosD]

No, sadly even with max samples and tiles 1080's run tops at 93-95% which if you have 7 cards it adds up to the lost performance. On the contrary Vray GPU runs all the cards at 100%, so it is possible to achieve it. Lets hope.

[Ron]

Same with me. WIth max parallel samples and tile samples my cards run at 95-97%.

Does yours at 100%, Smicha?

Ron

BTW: how is your 7 x 1080 build going?

[KonstantinosD]

It is going fantastic! I have it in my office
I'm still waiting for some cuda 8 optimizations for pascal cards that would boost the speed even for a little. Not that I'm complaining with OctaneBench arround 1100 (still not the official) but every little bit helps.

KOD.

[Ron]

KonstantinosD, are you talking about the 7x1080-beast? If so, congratulations for that. Must be great to work with.
Did you buy that from Smicha rsp. is he building such rigs for others?

Cheers - Ron

[KonstantinosD]

Yes he does! Amazing built quality and can't hear a thing, on rendering temps max out at 46-47C with overclock and dead silent. Xeons help too with CB 2700 and temps on stress around 35! Ridiculous. best PC I've had.

[Ron]

Sounds so cool! How much did you pay for it (if it's not too snoopy to ask)?

Cheers - Ron

[smicha]

Sounds so cool! How much did you pay for it (if it's not too snoopy to ask)?

Cheers - Ron

HI Ron,

Price is components dependent. For basic dual Xeon E5 and 7x1080 is around 10k EUR. 7x1070 shall be 1500EUR less.

[smicha]

Guys test gpu usage on the new 3.04.5