Only 4GB of memory seen for Titan Black

Message boards : Graphics cards (GPUs) : Only 4GB of memory seen for Titan Black

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jlhal Send message Joined: 1 Mar 10 Posts: 147 Credit: 1,077,535,540 RAC: 0 Level Scientific publications	Message 39069 - Posted: 4 Dec 2014 \| 22:06:49 UTC Last modified: 4 Dec 2014 \| 22:15:05 UTC
	Hi, I run Lubuntu 14.04 LTS x86_64 In Gpugrid (Boinc 7.4.23) see that, whatever driver is used, only 4095MB available memory is reported for the Titan Black instead of 6GB. For OpenGl the size is correctly reported as 6GB Nvidia X server reports also correctly the 6GB. Is it a limitation ? Thanks for your time ____________ Lubuntu 16.04.1 LTS x64
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MJH Project administrator Project developer Project scientist Send message Joined: 12 Nov 07 Posts: 696 Credit: 27,266,655 RAC: 0 Level Scientific publications	Message 39070 - Posted: 5 Dec 2014 \| 0:07:42 UTC - in response to Message 39069.
	Don't worry about it, it's just being misreported. None of our WUs need that much memory anyhow.
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jlhal Send message Joined: 1 Mar 10 Posts: 147 Credit: 1,077,535,540 RAC: 0 Level Scientific publications	Message 39075 - Posted: 5 Dec 2014 \| 12:10:15 UTC - in response to Message 39070.
	Don't worry about it, it's just being misreported. I did not worry, may be this could just hide some misbehaviour ;-) None of our WUs need that much memory anyhow. I know, they need less than 900MB at the moment and use between 75% and 93% of the GPU power ____________ Lubuntu 16.04.1 LTS x64
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Wrend Send message Joined: 9 Nov 12 Posts: 51 Credit: 522,101,722 RAC: 0 Level Scientific publications	Message 39206 - Posted: 18 Dec 2014 \| 22:46:27 UTC
	I'm not sure what causes this video card memory misreporting. It isn't just an issue with BOINC either. The memory is there though (of course) and can be fully utilized, if needed. If you have some GPU monitoring software such as the one in the EVGA OC Scanner X, it will correctly show the memory load and availability. I have two EVGA Titan Black Superclocked cards in SLI (so the memory is mirrored between them) for gaming, but also run two GPUGrid long run work units per GPU. This means their memory is loaded with four long run work units each. Even with that, I don't have any memory issues with these cards, regardless of the memory being misreported by some programs. The current memory load for the cards is at about 65%, 4004MB with just these work units running. (Current GPU loads are 93% for each GPU.) Hope this helps. ____________ My BOINC Cruncher, Minecraft Multiserver, Mobile Device Mainframe, and Home Entertainment System/Workstation: http://www.overclock.net/lists/display/view/id/4678036#
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Message boards : Graphics cards (GPUs) : Only 4GB of memory seen for Titan Black

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