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Message 45082 - Posted: 1 Nov 2016 | 0:08:12 UTC

Hey Guys!

I´m just playing around with an old graphic card from my previous computer. It´s the Nvidia Geforce 9500 GT. My BOINC has also detected the device, in "messages" I can read:
- CUDA: NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce 9500 GT (driver version 342.00, CUDA version 6.5, compute capability 1.1, 512MB, 467MB available, 130 GFLOPS peak)

- OpenCL: NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce 9500 GT (driver version 342.00, device version OpenCL 1.0 CUDA, 512MB, 467MB available, 130 GFLOPS peak)

I can add the Project "GPUGrid" but I get no work. Are these old graphic cards too old to be supported or did I something wrong?

If you know something about it, tell me :)

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Message 45083 - Posted: 1 Nov 2016 | 0:11:58 UTC - in response to Message 45082.

This card is way too old to use here.
It's compute capability is 1.1, the lowest supported is 2.0, the most recent is 6.1.
This GPU is so ancient, that state of the art CPUs are faster than this.

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Message 45084 - Posted: 1 Nov 2016 | 0:20:34 UTC - in response to Message 45083.

Thanks for your fast answer Retvari Zoltan!

I found this article here and it was taking about this kind of Nvidia Series. Well, it´s from 2009 so I shouldn´t trust it anymore...

https://www.gpugrid.net/forum_thread.php?id=1150

Too bad. I thought, there is still a tiny use for this card because it was a great one in its time.

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Message 45085 - Posted: 1 Nov 2016 | 0:41:46 UTC - in response to Message 45084.

Thanks for your fast answer Retvari Zoltan!

I found this article here and it was taking about this kind of Nvidia Series. Well, it´s from 2009 so I shouldn´t trust it anymore...

https://www.gpugrid.net/forum_thread.php?id=1150

Too bad. I thought, there is still a tiny use for this card because it was a great one in its time.


PrimeGrid Has work for small & older GPU's. I think you will be happy.
Generalized Fermat Prime Search n=15 (GFN-15) Recent average GPU time: 0:05:02
Generalized Fermat Prime Search n=16 (GFN-16) Recent average GPU time: 0:06:18

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Message 45086 - Posted: 1 Nov 2016 | 0:51:13 UTC - in response to Message 45084.
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Too bad. I thought, there is still a tiny use for this card because it was a great one in its time.

I had a Nokia 6700 Classic cellphone in 2009. I still have it somewhere, yet I don't think that I could do my daily tasks with that phone today. However, I still could make phone calls with it, but the world moved on...

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Message 45089 - Posted: 1 Nov 2016 | 8:15:59 UTC - in response to Message 45084.
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Too bad. I thought, there is still a tiny use for this card because it was a great one in its time.


Even if that GPU would work for GPUGRID, performance (134 GFlops SP) and power consumption (~60W 3Dpk) are disproportionate. You will spend money on electricity cost but get almost no credit.

As I can see you have a GTX750 in your primary PC. This one actually was the perfect replacement, it has about the same power draw, does not need extra 6/8pin PWR but yields respectable 1044 GFlops .... almost 8x more than the 9500GT. Time flies.
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