Saturday, January 21st 2012
TechPowerUp GPU-Z 0.5.8 Released
TechPowerUp today released the latest version of GPU-Z, our popular video subsystem information and diagnostic utility that provides you with accurate information about the graphics hardware installed, and lets you monitor their clock speeds, fan speeds, voltages, VRAM consumption, etc., in real-time. Version 0.5.8 introduces two new features. The first one is a render test that applies sufficient load (not stress) on the GPU to pull it out of PCI-Express link-state power-management, to ensure the Bus information is accurate. If you find the PCI-Express bus link speed or PCIe version displayed incorrectly, simply click on the "?" button next to the field to launch the load test.
The next new feature is ASIC quality, designed for NVIDIA Fermi (GF10x and GF11x GPUs) and AMD Southern Islands (HD 7800 series and above), aimed at advanced users, hardware manufacturers, and the likes. We've found the ways in which AMD and NVIDIA segregate their freshly-made GPU ASICs based on the electrical leakages the chips produce (to increase yield by allotting them in different SKUs and performance bins), and we've found ways in which ASIC quality can be quantified and displayed. Find this feature in the context menu of GPU-Z. We're working on implementing this feature on older AMD Radeon GPUs.
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The full change-log follows.
The next new feature is ASIC quality, designed for NVIDIA Fermi (GF10x and GF11x GPUs) and AMD Southern Islands (HD 7800 series and above), aimed at advanced users, hardware manufacturers, and the likes. We've found the ways in which AMD and NVIDIA segregate their freshly-made GPU ASICs based on the electrical leakages the chips produce (to increase yield by allotting them in different SKUs and performance bins), and we've found ways in which ASIC quality can be quantified and displayed. Find this feature in the context menu of GPU-Z. We're working on implementing this feature on older AMD Radeon GPUs.
The full change-log follows.
- Added explanation about PCI-Express power savings and 3D render test to accurately measure bus config under load
- Added function to display ASIC quality for Fermi and Southern Islands. (Located in the GPU-Z system menu)
- Fixed crash on older ATI cards
- Added voltage monitoring for HD 7970
- Improved real-time clock monitoring for HD 7970
- Fixed OpenCL detection for AMD Antilles, Whistler, Seymour, Blackcomb
- Improved default clock reading for AMD HD 7970 and Fusion
- Added support for AMD FirePro V7900, HD 6930, HD 7690M, HD 6410D
- Fixed Intel Sandy Bridge IGP to be DirectX 10.1, 32 nm
- Added support for NVIDIA Tesla C2075, GeForce GT 630M
135 Comments on TechPowerUp GPU-Z 0.5.8 Released
Why, why, why ????????
edit:
Stock volts. I've been running it like this since I got it. Water block should be here next week, hopefully it likes some extra volts. :)
My other 470 with a quality of 60.9% is a little better. Default VID is 0.975V. 725/1800 at 0.975V and 775/1900 at 1.037V.
Same on an ASUS 6970 DirectCU II
Currently running factory overclocked 797/975/1594 @ 1.013 V
This seems exceptionally good, am I right? Which would seem to support EVGA doing binning.
:(
"bad" gpus get a higher voltage so they make the default clock. "good" gpus can do it with lower voltage
as you've seen in this thread, the scale for nvidia isnt perfect yet, so i'll apply some fixes once I have more data that suggests the typical ranges of gpu leakages
Looks like my second card should oc better than my first one in the SLI setup.
Thanks W1zz for this nice little enhancement:toast:
hd 5000 ... rv610: maybe
GTX 470 #1: 50.6%
GTX 470 #2: 58.0%
I guess NVidia really needed to sell the worst chips when they created the 470.