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CUDA-Z for linux

PostPosted: Wed Jul 24, 2013 7:28 am
by pam
Download and run CUDA z for linux. Its the equivalent of GPU/CPU-z on windows system except that it monitors CUDA performance and other parameters.

http://cuda-z.sourceforge.net/

Blender 2.68 has native CUDA enabled in the system section. Makes a night and day difference when rendering with GPGPU. Render and check the performance with CUDA-z .

CUDA-z will only work with NVidia graphics cards that have CUDA cores.

Re: CUDA-Z for linux

PostPosted: Mon Aug 05, 2013 2:13 am
by TheeMahn
I am soon going to have to learn blender, was told 60 days from yesterday. Point that out to me that I said that to the day.

Re: CUDA-Z for linux

PostPosted: Mon Aug 05, 2013 3:51 am
by pam
TheeMahn wrote:I am soon going to have to learn blender, was told 60 days from yesterday. Point that out to me that I said that to the day.


You'd be shocked for whats coming. CUDA is just tip of the iceberg. Anyways is useless when doing final rendering. Local render farms would be way faster... My APU laptop is just as fast as my hex core. When CUDA comes in it just tears through time. On heavy duty work there is no difference between CUDA and CPU !

After 4 months and coming to terms with gimp, im trying the 'blender'.
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AMD HSA(Heterogenous systems architecture) with next gen APU's will include OpenCL support built directly into the kernel. Asking something like how should i enable Opencl on blender is outright Stupid. :roll:

I'd still bank any day on AMD GPGPU.