On 2020-05-03 17:49, William Oliver wrote:
On Sun, 2020-05-03 at 07:58 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 2020-05-03 07:54, Ed Greshko wrote:
>> I suppose, for testing, I'll download from the blender site and try
>> it?
> Well, I just download the tar file, extracted and ran.
>
> And, it detected my GPU just fine.
>
> GeForce GTX 660 (Display)
>
> So, it would seem the disable CUDA was intentional on Fedora
> Project's part.
>
>
Well, I just rendered a scene or two and turning the GPU on didn't
really speed up rendering subjectively (though I haven't done a real
timing yet). It may be broken. I'd been reading about these huge
speedups with the NVIDIA GPU, and I was excited to see if it was true
when I got my new laptop. It was disappointing. But I'll switch over
to the Blender groups for followup for that.
I don't use blender.
However, I am enrolled in several boinc projects which use CUDA. Additionally, I use
other
video transformation software which uses H.264 (NVEnc) encoding. One thing to check
to ensure you're using the GPU is to check the temperature. When my system is pretty
idle "nvidia-settings -q gpucoretemp -t" reports around 45°C . When the GPU is
being used
by either of the above it runs around 66°C or more.
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