Nvidia GPU tasks versus CPU tasks
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Send message Joined: 3 Feb 24 Posts: 36 Credit: 109,002 RAC: 20 |
Last modified: 16 Apr 2025, 15:24:43 UTC How many WU's does 1 GPU task contain? Just asking cause for CPU tasks, each thread, in my case 16, gets it's own CPU task, but the GPU only gets 1 at a time. And also, the estimated completion time is just stuck at 11 minutes 45 seconds for my RTX 3060, and it took almost 5 minutes for the current GPU task to get to 0.01%, which is VERY big WU then, compared to the CPU tasks, which only take about an hour or so to complete on my 5700x CPU. So just curious about the differences between CPU and GPU tasks for this project :) Update: The GPU task just jumped, after about 9 minutes, up to 8% complete, then shortly after 16, 24, 32, and so on, jumping by 8% every 10 seconds, and then finished after a little over 10 minutes. |
Send message Joined: 1 Jan 13 Posts: 147 Credit: 13,557,639 RAC: 20,084 |
Only one, in other words, GPU and CPU tasks are the same. Asteroids tasks are around 10 times faster on a reasonable GPU than a single CPU core, but since modern CPUs have many cores, using CPUs is currently more efficient overall. Some applications can be 1000+ times faster on a GPU. The raw processing power is significantly higher, but writing software that fully leverages that power is also much more challenging. While you can attempt to run more tasks in parallel on a GPU, it usually won't lead to any performance improvement. 2 tasks running in parallel on the same GPU will both just be 2 times slower. |
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Last modified: 19 May 2025, 1:39:23 UTC Asteroids tasks are around 10 times faster on a reasonable GPU than a single CPU core Reasonable meaning NOT an integrated GPU, apparently. Ran a test recently to test times of a single CPU thread vs the iGPU on the chip and found the CPU was about 7x faster. Have yet to receive any Nvidia tasks for my discrete GPU. https://asteroidsathome.net/boinc/result.php?resultid=578019437 https://asteroidsathome.net/boinc/result.php?resultid=577501187 |
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