Re: [gmx-users] Performance of NVIDIA GTX980 in PCI-e 3.0 x8 or x16 slots ?

2015-06-15 Thread Mirco Wahab
On 11.06.2015 14:07, David McGiven wrote: Your 1-3% claim is based on the webpage you linked ? Is it reliable to compare GPU performances for gromacs with those of 3D videogames ? OK, you got me on this. As much as I'd wish I cannot really back up my claim of comparability. I have been out of

Re: [gmx-users] Performance of NVIDIA GTX980 in PCI-e 3.0 x8 or x16 slots ?

2015-06-15 Thread Szilárd Páll
Good data Mirco, but let me emphasize that your measurements only reflect the case of heavily GPU-bound workloads! 5-6% performance improvement with PCI-E 3.0 vs 2.0 is about the maximum you'll see when, like in RF runs where, we there is no enough CPU work to fully overlap with the GPU

[gmx-users] Performance of NVIDIA GTX980 in PCI-e 3.0 x8 or x16 slots ?

2015-06-11 Thread David McGiven
Dear Gromacs Users, We're finally buying some Intel E52650 servers + NVIDIA GTX980 cards. However, there's some servers that come with only PCI-e 3.0 x8 slots and others with x16 slots. Do you think this is relevant for gromacs performance ? And if so, how much relevant ? Thanks in advance.

Re: [gmx-users] Performance of NVIDIA GTX980 in PCI-e 3.0 x8 or x16 slots ?

2015-06-11 Thread Mirco Wahab
On 11.06.2015 13:08, David McGiven wrote: We're finally buying some Intel E52650 servers + NVIDIA GTX980 cards. However, there's some servers that come with only PCI-e 3.0 x8 slots and others with x16 slots. Do you think this is relevant for gromacs performance ? And if so, how much relevant ?

Re: [gmx-users] Performance of NVIDIA GTX980 in PCI-e 3.0 x8 or x16 slots ?

2015-06-11 Thread David McGiven
Hey Mirco, Your 1-3% claim is based on the webpage you linked ? Is it reliable to compare GPU performances for gromacs with those of 3D videogames ? Thanks! 2015-06-11 13:21 GMT+02:00 Mirco Wahab mirco.wa...@chemie.tu-freiberg.de: On 11.06.2015 13:08, David McGiven wrote: We're finally