Tesla card to enhance GeForce?

[Altaraz]

I'm running a GTX 760 and have two Tesla M1060 cards at my disposal. Is there some way I can use a Tesla to enhance or accelerate my GeForce card for gaming? Maybe offload PhysX onto the Tesla?

I'm thinking that maybe if I install a WDDM driver on the M1060 and get the mode switched over from TTC I could do it, but have never used anything aside from GeForce before, so I’m not sure.

As I understand it, Tesla cards can accelerate anything else in your system that uses CUDA, I just don't know how to go about it. This is partly as an experiment for me, partly because I can't go out and buy a Maxwell or Titan right now for game emulation/new games.

 

[bambiboom]

I'm running a GTX 760 and have two Tesla M1060 cards at my disposal. Is there some way I can use a Tesla to enhance or accelerate my GeForce card for gaming? Maybe offload PhysX onto the Tesla?

I'm thinking that maybe if I install a WDDM driver on the M1060 and get the mode switched over from TTC I could do it, but have never used anything aside from GeForce before, so I’m not sure.

As I understand it, Tesla cards can accelerate anything else in your system that uses CUDA, I just don't know how to go about it. This is partly as an experiment for me, partly because I can't go out and buy a Maxwell or Titan right now for game emulation/new games.

Altaraz,

NVIDIA Telsa units are GPU coprocessors and having a GPU- the M1060 has a GT200 @ 1.3GHz, 4GB memory, and CUDA cores- 240 per M1060. The world's fastest supercomputers are based on 100's of Teslas or Xeon Phi's and you can buy a GPU visualization system with 6X Quadro M6000's for only about $50,000- a nice add-on to any system,..

Depending on the main GPU and CPU, it seem as though a couple of M1060's should help things along as the games, seeing these as just more GPU's- like a triple SLI but of dissimilar components. However- a big however, there may be a serious compatibility problem as the drivers are not certified for games. I suspect the Telsa drivers are more like Quadros, running very high double precision and whereas GeForce drivers are FPS oriented. I think of it as the Quadro /Tesla driver finishing every frame and checking for errors before moving on, whereas the GeForce has a "good enough" approach so it can run high frame rates. There are 240 CUDA cores per M1060- not a very large number cores, but if it does work, 480 should be noticeable.

The obsolete Teslas are very reasonable to buy as they're found in big, high performance systems for scientific, financial analysis, resources exploration use. Most people don't know about them or what they're for.

With VR about to explode, there will probably going to be a lot more specialized GPU coprocessing use and if you have the Teslas anyway, give them a try, but the drivers may cause "inconvenient" conflicts. You can try it, but create a restore point that can restore the system from Safe Mode.

Cheers,

BambiBoom

 

[nigelivey]

Your not going to see much, if any, improvement by running the Teslas as a physics co-processor, you will bump up the heat and increase power draw. I have tried this and apart from spending hours trying to get the drivers to work which was interesting, it was a complete waste of time for gaming.

 

[Altaraz]

Your not going to see much, if any, improvement by running the Teslas as a physics co-processor, you will bump up the heat and increase power draw. I have tried this and apart from spending hours trying to get the drivers to work which was interesting, it was a complete waste of time for gaming.

T-T

You've saved me a lot of heart and head aches, thank you. I may try to use it separately for other projects like animating in Flash and AutoCAD/Solidworks. A friend is new to the country and just got a job in Application Development (Cloud stuff) so maybe one would be useful for him for a developing environment at home...

 

[nigelivey]

Your not going to see much, if any, improvement by running the Teslas as a physics co-processor, you will bump up the heat and increase power draw. I have tried this and apart from spending hours trying to get the drivers to work which was interesting, it was a complete waste of time for gaming.

T-T

You've saved me a lot of heart and head aches, thank you. I may try to use it separately for other projects like animating in Flash and AutoCAD/Solidworks. A friend is new to the country and just got a job in Application Development (Cloud stuff) so maybe one would be useful for him for a developing environment at home...

No problem.

 

[Altaraz]

I'm running a GTX 760 and have two Tesla M1060 cards at my disposal. Is there some way I can use a Tesla to enhance or accelerate my GeForce card for gaming? Maybe offload PhysX onto the Tesla?

I'm thinking that maybe if I install a WDDM driver on the M1060 and get the mode switched over from TTC I could do it, but have never used anything aside from GeForce before, so I’m not sure.

As I understand it, Tesla cards can accelerate anything else in your system that uses CUDA, I just don't know how to go about it. This is partly as an experiment for me, partly because I can't go out and buy a Maxwell or Titan right now for game emulation/new games.

Altaraz,

NVIDIA Telsa units are GPU coprocessors and having a GPU- the M1060 has a GT200 @ 1.3GHz, 4GB memory, and CUDA cores- 240 per M1060. The world's fastest supercomputers are based on 100's of Teslas or Xeon Phi's and you can buy a GPU visualization system with 6X Quadro M6000's for only about $50,000- a nice add-on to any system,..

Depending on the main GPU and CPU, it seem as though a couple of M1060's should help things along as the games, seeing these as just more GPU's- like a triple SLI but of dissimilar components. However- a big however, there may be a serious compatibility problem as the drivers are not certified for games. I suspect the Telsa drivers are more like Quadros, running very high double precision and whereas GeForce drivers are FPS oriented. I think of it as the Quadro /Tesla driver finishing every frame and checking for errors before moving on, whereas the GeForce has a "good enough" approach so it can run high frame rates. There are 240 CUDA cores per M1060- not a very large number cores, but if it does work, 480 should be noticeable.

The obsolete Teslas are very reasonable to buy as they're found in big, high performance systems for scientific, financial analysis, resources exploration use. Most people don't know about them or what they're for.

With VR about to explode, there will probably going to be a lot more specialized GPU coprocessing use and if you have the Teslas anyway, give them a try, but the drivers may cause "inconvenient" conflicts. You can try it, but create a restore point that can restore the system from Safe Mode.

Cheers,

BambiBoom

Thank you for this info.

from what nigelively has posted here from his experience, it ain't happenin' ~ maybe for Cloud work and 3D applications it will still be very useful. I was thinking about learning to animate in Flash myself... we'll see! :3