we first bought 6 single-GPU GTX480 cards, and found it’s slower a little bit than a two-GPU version of GTX295.
Then we bought 120 single-GPU GTX580 cards and hope they can be faster than the 480 and even 295, because many website said GTX580 is 20% faster than the GTX480.
For all our test, we put 6 cards on the same compter, run the exactly same program and input data.
If we use 6 GTX480, it takes 26 hours to finish. But if we use 6 GTX580, it takes 39 hours.
we use CUDA 3.2, because we failed to compile it with CUDA4.
The computer we used have 48Gb memory and two 6-core XEON CPUs. I use centos, and I always copy all the data into /dev/shm before I run the program. The program has 6 CPU threads to control 6 GPU individually.
DO somebody know what’s reason? Is there somebody to do a real test on GTX580 and get a 20% faster as said by NVIDIA?
by the way, the GTX580 is made by PNY. The GTX480 is made by Zotac.
