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How much longer for Fermi cards
Posted: Thu Dec 19, 2013 3:04 am
by mike44njdevils
I keep hearing that core 15 WU's are phasing out. They beat the hell out of Kepler cards, and I've noticed that Fermi gets similar ppd on the core 17 WU's as cite 15 (though with the hit on a cpu core).
Re: How much longer for Fermi cards
Posted: Thu Dec 19, 2013 3:17 am
by bruce
Ask NVidia -- and the folks who write their drivers. Core_17 is written in OpenCL which is supposed to be a universal API for all GPUs.
Re: How much longer for Fermi cards
Posted: Thu Dec 19, 2013 8:32 am
by Zagen30
The big divide for Nvidia is between G80/GT200 (8000 series through 300 series) and Fermi/Kepler/Maxwell (400 series to present). The former can only run core 11, which is going to be EOL'd within a year; when that happens, all of those cards will be completely unsupported. The latter can run both core 15 and core 17, so when core 15 is EOL'd they will all still be able to run core 17. I would guess that Fermi will become unsupported at the same time as Kepler, and possibly Maxwell, but that doesn't seem likely to happen for years.