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Message 18379 - Posted: 21 Aug 2010 | 2:36:39 UTC

I see the C1060 is listed as a supported card.

How does it compare processing GPUGRID WU against the GTX480 ?

Perhaps, as a 2nd card in a system it would make sense since it does not have a video port.

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Message 18380 - Posted: 21 Aug 2010 | 7:05:05 UTC - in response to Message 18379.

Poorly I would imagine however, if you have one spare using it as a second in a system is a good move.
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Message 18381 - Posted: 21 Aug 2010 | 8:22:38 UTC - in response to Message 18380.
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I think tasks are still sent to the system rather than to specific cards, so putting a C1060 along side a GTX 480 would be a bad move. The C1060 is Compute Capable (CC) 1.3, so it should work along with any other CC1.3 card. Things have changed since this post in so much as CC1.3 cards now crunch CUDA 3.0 tasks and CC2.x cards (Fermi's) crunch CUDA 3.1 tasks.

As C1060's are CC1.3, have 602MHz cores and 240shaders at 1300MHz, it would perform somewhere between a GTX260-216 and a GTX275, about (884) with Correction Factor applied. The TDP is 188, also putting it nicely between a GTX260-216 and a GTX275 in terms of power consumption (despite it's 4GB GDDR3 RAM). On Linux or XP it should get about 40K per day at reference (default) clocks. Not too bad saying as my OC'd GTX470 gets about 65K per day on XP.

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Message 18382 - Posted: 21 Aug 2010 | 9:04:36 UTC - in response to Message 18381.

Tesla C1060 is a chip from the last generation (GT200). Don't bother, except you've got a spare one anyway.

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Message 18433 - Posted: 28 Aug 2010 | 6:18:49 UTC - in response to Message 18382.

Sorry, I should have said it was 'what if'. (I don't have a c1060)

Those c1060 cards seem to be alot more expensive than gtx, so was thinking how good they could be at crunching.
Sounds like from the responses, that they wouldn't be worth the $.




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Message 18435 - Posted: 28 Aug 2010 | 7:57:00 UTC - in response to Message 18433.

Exactly, certainly not for you & GPU-Grid.

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Message 18809 - Posted: 2 Oct 2010 | 20:42:03 UTC

Tesla cards are not for BOINC. You will get FAR more bang for your buck using standard gaming cards. Of course if you already have a Tesla workstation you use in professional applications then by all means you can run BOINC on it, but the high level features like ECC and threading would be more or less wasted on this software.

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