I got my hands on a system with two RTX 2080Ti GPUs. Somehow, the performance from the GPU is incredibly slow while starting any program.
For example, if i run device query, it takes around 49 seconds to show me the output. Is there anyway I can make this faster. Am I doing anything wrong?
(base) sayantan@cyan:deviceQuery$ ./deviceQuery
./deviceQuery Starting...
CUDA Device Query (Runtime API) version (CUDART static linking)
Detected 2 CUDA Capable device(s)
Device 0: "GeForce RTX 2080 Ti"
CUDA Driver Version / Runtime Version 10.1 / 10.1
CUDA Capability Major/Minor version number: 7.5
Total amount of global memory: 11016 MBytes (11551440896 bytes)
(68) Multiprocessors, ( 64) CUDA Cores/MP: 4352 CUDA Cores
GPU Max Clock rate: 1545 MHz (1.54 GHz)
Memory Clock rate: 7000 Mhz
Memory Bus Width: 352-bit
L2 Cache Size: 5767168 bytes
Maximum Texture Dimension Size (x,y,z) 1D=(131072), 2D=(131072, 65536), 3D=(16384, 16384, 16384)
Maximum Layered 1D Texture Size, (num) layers 1D=(32768), 2048 layers
Maximum Layered 2D Texture Size, (num) layers 2D=(32768, 32768), 2048 layers
Total amount of constant memory: 65536 bytes
Total amount of shared memory per block: 49152 bytes
Total number of registers available per block: 65536
Warp size: 32
Maximum number of threads per multiprocessor: 1024
Maximum number of threads per block: 1024
Max dimension size of a thread block (x,y,z): (1024, 1024, 64)
Max dimension size of a grid size (x,y,z): (2147483647, 65535, 65535)
Maximum memory pitch: 2147483647 bytes
Texture alignment: 512 bytes
Concurrent copy and kernel execution: Yes with 3 copy engine(s)
Run time limit on kernels: Yes
Integrated GPU sharing Host Memory: No
Support host page-locked memory mapping: Yes
Alignment requirement for Surfaces: Yes
Device has ECC support: Disabled
Device supports Unified Addressing (UVA): Yes
Device supports Compute Preemption: Yes
Supports Cooperative Kernel Launch: Yes
Supports MultiDevice Co-op Kernel Launch: Yes
Device PCI Domain ID / Bus ID / location ID: 0 / 23 / 0
Compute Mode:
< Default (multiple host threads can use ::cudaSetDevice() with device simultaneously) >
Device 1: "GeForce RTX 2080 Ti"
CUDA Driver Version / Runtime Version 10.1 / 10.1
CUDA Capability Major/Minor version number: 7.5
Total amount of global memory: 11019 MBytes (11554717696 bytes)
(68) Multiprocessors, ( 64) CUDA Cores/MP: 4352 CUDA Cores
GPU Max Clock rate: 1545 MHz (1.54 GHz)
Memory Clock rate: 7000 Mhz
Memory Bus Width: 352-bit
L2 Cache Size: 5767168 bytes
Maximum Texture Dimension Size (x,y,z) 1D=(131072), 2D=(131072, 65536), 3D=(16384, 16384, 16384)
Maximum Layered 1D Texture Size, (num) layers 1D=(32768), 2048 layers
Maximum Layered 2D Texture Size, (num) layers 2D=(32768, 32768), 2048 layers
Total amount of constant memory: 65536 bytes
Total amount of shared memory per block: 49152 bytes
Total number of registers available per block: 65536
Warp size: 32
Maximum number of threads per multiprocessor: 1024
Maximum number of threads per block: 1024
Max dimension size of a thread block (x,y,z): (1024, 1024, 64)
Max dimension size of a grid size (x,y,z): (2147483647, 65535, 65535)
Maximum memory pitch: 2147483647 bytes
Texture alignment: 512 bytes
Concurrent copy and kernel execution: Yes with 3 copy engine(s)
Run time limit on kernels: No
Integrated GPU sharing Host Memory: No
Support host page-locked memory mapping: Yes
Alignment requirement for Surfaces: Yes
Device has ECC support: Disabled
Device supports Unified Addressing (UVA): Yes
Device supports Compute Preemption: Yes
Supports Cooperative Kernel Launch: Yes
Supports MultiDevice Co-op Kernel Launch: Yes
Device PCI Domain ID / Bus ID / location ID: 0 / 101 / 0
Compute Mode:
< Default (multiple host threads can use ::cudaSetDevice() with device simultaneously) >
> Peer access from GeForce RTX 2080 Ti (GPU0) -> GeForce RTX 2080 Ti (GPU1) : No
> Peer access from GeForce RTX 2080 Ti (GPU1) -> GeForce RTX 2080 Ti (GPU0) : No
deviceQuery, CUDA Driver = CUDART, CUDA Driver Version = 10.1, CUDA Runtime Version = 10.1, NumDevs = 2
Result = PASS
(base) sayantan@cyan:deviceQuery$
The result from
nvidia-smi topo -m
is as follows:
(base) sayantan@cyan:deviceQuery$ nvidia-smi topo -m
GPU0 GPU1 CPU Affinity
GPU0 X SYS 0-15
GPU1 SYS X 0-15
Legend:
X = Self
SYS = Connection traversing PCIe as well as the SMP interconnect between NUMA nodes (e.g., QPI/UPI)
NODE = Connection traversing PCIe as well as the interconnect between PCIe Host Bridges within a NUMA node
PHB = Connection traversing PCIe as well as a PCIe Host Bridge (typically the CPU)
PXB = Connection traversing multiple PCIe switches (without traversing the PCIe Host Bridge)
PIX = Connection traversing a single PCIe switch
NV# = Connection traversing a bonded set of # NVLinks
(base) sayantan@cyan:deviceQuery$
Edit 1:
Even the performance in tensorflow, while I initialize my neural network is incredibly slow. Sometimes it takes like a couple of minutes or even more.
Similarly while starting LibreOffice in ubuntu, it takes like 2~3 minutes, and often crashes my DE altogether.