Re: [AMBER] GTX680

From: Ross Walker <ross.rosswalker.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 11:49:15 -0700

Hi Filip,

> Hi all,
> I was wondering
> what we can expect from GTX680 and in general from the new Kepler line.
> I know
> that GTX680 is very limited DP, but should be good in SP mode. Would we
> expect
> some speed boost compared to GTX580 and also will it work along Amber
> 11/12?

Amber 11 will NOT support the GTX680 cards (unless you hack the configure script to compile it in what is effectively an emulation mode). It will be too much work to make patch against that. AMBER 12 will support them but it is going to take around 6 weeks to 2 months to get the optimization done and a patch released so it won't support the cards at release but it will as soon as we have the patch ready. I can't really give you any performance expectations right now, only got my first prototype board yesterday. ;-)

Right now if you compile AMBER 12 with PTX support so that it will at least run on the GTX680 the performance sucks. It is about 70% of a GTX580. NVIDIA changed the hardware too much (massively increasing the threads but also the thread latency) so it will need some work to optimize it which is why I have chosen not to support the cards in AMBER 12 until we have that optimization done. Once it is done I expect considerable improvement over GTX580 speeds but can't give you anything concrete right now.

> P.S. Indeed most
> of us will probably wait for GK110, but CUDA capability of GTX680 is
> very limited now.

This is probably a good idea, at least you should wait until we have had a chance to get our hands dirty with the GK104 chip. So I'd urge you to wait at least until we have the patch ready for AMBER 12.

All the best
Ross

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