Drivers on Vista for Tesla 1060 and Quadro 5800FX

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#1

Hi,

Does the following hardware has drivers for Vista that supports CUDA?

Tesla 1060
Quadro 5800FX

Also, those hardware contains 4GB memory each. Does it means that I should expect any issues running on Vista 32bit?

#2

All of the above should work fine, however OS limitations will always apply if you’re trying to allocate more memory than the OS can map.

#3

One thing to note is that because of WDDM limitations you cannot allocate more than 256MB of pinned memory per allocation.

#4

What do you mean by “allocate more memory than the OS can map”?

Will I be able to use all the 4G graphics memory?

#5

This is an OS limitation, not a CUDA limitation.

#6

I understand that. My question is, will I be able to use 4G or not considering I am using Vista 32bit?

Thanks!

#7

My guess is not. I vaguely remember that 4G is the limitation for the total amount of memory in the system (host + video) but I can be mistaken.

If I were you, I would not run the risk though, and just install a 64bit OS.

#8

Can anyone confirm or contradict that the total address space of 4GB limit on 32bit OS is host + device memory?

#9

I know that is the case with Windows XP. When I built my current development box a couple years ago, I installed XP 32-bit only to find it only had something like 3.5GB of memory available to the OS, because even though I had 4GB of memory, there was 0.5GB that was not addressable because I installed a 512MB video card.

With Vista, I don’t know if this is still the case since it does a bunch of stuff with virtualizing graphics memory. I didn’t have good luck using XP Pro x64 for CUDA purposes (others have, but I just couldn’t get it working right), but things seem to be working fine with Vista Business x64, so if you really need a large amount of memory, you should probably go with that.