I've had these 9800 GTX+ cards sitting around for a while that were said to not work properly when I got them. I decided to replace my 9600 GT card with the faster 9800 GTX+ to see if it would work. After a few crashes, BSODs, downgrading drivers a bit, and reflashing the BIOS of the card it seems to be a bit more stable now.
I wanted some way to test it all, and for whatever reason oclHashcat popped in my head and I gave it a go. Logically speaking the 9800 GTX+ should outperform the 9600 GT I have in every aspect except it only has 512 MB of VRAM as opposed to my 9600 GT which has 1 GB.
I ran the cudaHashcat example 0 on both cards. The 9600 GT got near 200 M/s whereas the 9800 GTX+ only got a little over 100 M/s. Now perhaps I'm reading it backwards, but is that supposed to happen? What's making the difference, is it because my 9800 GTX+ is likely bad, or is it because of having less VRAM?
I'm sorry if this is kind of unrelated to the purpose of oclHashcat, but it seems like it would be a great program for testing a GPU. Any insight is greatly appreciated.
I wanted some way to test it all, and for whatever reason oclHashcat popped in my head and I gave it a go. Logically speaking the 9800 GTX+ should outperform the 9600 GT I have in every aspect except it only has 512 MB of VRAM as opposed to my 9600 GT which has 1 GB.
I ran the cudaHashcat example 0 on both cards. The 9600 GT got near 200 M/s whereas the 9800 GTX+ only got a little over 100 M/s. Now perhaps I'm reading it backwards, but is that supposed to happen? What's making the difference, is it because my 9800 GTX+ is likely bad, or is it because of having less VRAM?
I'm sorry if this is kind of unrelated to the purpose of oclHashcat, but it seems like it would be a great program for testing a GPU. Any insight is greatly appreciated.