Guest tar Posted March 11, 2015 Ya - the proprietry stuff is a bit scary - i.e. today's Apple Security update for OsX 10.10.2 has disabled the GTX 980 Web drivers and the card no longer works. S o whilst I wait for the Nvidia to update those, the AMD backup card and dual Xeon CPUs cannot run Octane.... if I was relying on it.... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
edward 337 Posted March 11, 2015 Speaking of which, I have an old Windows Vista box at home, and last month, a security update broke *font* rendering. All my Arial font text had this 50% dithered look. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest tar Posted March 29, 2015 (edited) but how does a CPU core scale to a GPU one ? because I am guessing it's not one-to-one....and I see GPUz out there with smth crazy like 512 cores...and that would just laugh at my 6 core machine ) Starting to dig more properly into GPUs, apparently the so-called core count to compare them to CPU that we all use is a pretty good marketing piece. The GPU Compute Unit is more analogous to a CPU core. i.e. the GTX 960 has ~2000 cores but only 16 Compute Units. When data is processed is has to use a complete Compute Unit as one, therefore the it is comparable to a CPU core. http://devgurus.amd.com/thread/166930 "GPU marketing literature often uses the term "GPU core" or equivalent. This is essentially a single precision (32-bit) ALU or equivalent. By this definition, an 8-core Sandy Bridge with AVX instructions has 64 GPU core-equivalents." https://www.pgroup.com/lit/articles/insider/v5n2a1.htm Edited March 30, 2015 by tar Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
