{"id":79,"date":"2008-12-11T02:21:37","date_gmt":"2008-12-11T00:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bussink.ch\/erik\/?p=79"},"modified":"2018-05-23T18:00:19","modified_gmt":"2018-05-23T16:00:19","slug":"sager-9262-nvidia-quadro-fx3700m-nvidia-linux-binary-driver-performance-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bussink.ch\/?p=79","title":{"rendered":"Sager 9262 &#038; NVIDIA Quadro FX3700m &#038; NVIDIA Linux Binary Driver performance issue."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, this is probably not only effective for the Sager 9262 and the Quadro FX3700m, but this is the only platform that I have right now where I can identify and reproduce the problem. I hope some other Sager 9262 and\/or 9800M GTX users using Linux can also validate this issue.<\/p>\n<p>The problem stems from the feature <strong>PowerMizer<\/strong> which allows the graphic card to scale it&#8217;s performance. The Quadro FX3700M (1024MB) (550MHz\/799MHz) that shipped in my Sager 9262 last week has four Performance Levels with scaling <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">NV Clock<\/span> and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Memory Clock<\/span>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>0   200MHz &amp; 100MHz<\/li>\n<li>1   275MHz &amp; 301MHz<\/li>\n<li>2   383MHz &amp; 301MHz<\/li>\n<li>3   550MHz &amp; 799MHz<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Unfortunately with the latest 177.82 or 180.11 (Beta) Linux (x86-64) Binary Drivers, I cannot get the card running above Performance Level 1. Actually I&#8217;m using a script found at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nvnews.net\/vbulletin\/showthread.php?p=1871176#post1871176\" target=\"_blank\">nvnews forums<\/a> to artificially keep the graphic card running at Higher Performance. There are also multiple posts in the Phoronix forums about this issue.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a screenshot of my nvidia-settings and the performance level of the FX3700m while running OpenGL benchmarks. As you see it&#8217;s stuck at Performance Level 1.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0pt none;\" src=\"http:\/\/bussink.ch\/erik\/img\/nvidia-settings_quadro_fx3700m_fedora10.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"302\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So right now, due to the nvidia binary drivers NOT supporting the PowerMizer feature, I&#8217;m able to only use less than 50% of the performance of my graphic card. This is a very expensive setback for someone that invested in an expensive nvidia 9800M GTX or FX3700M graphic card.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m lucky that I&#8217;m not rendering on this laptop, and that I can wait for nvidia to get their act together and supply proper PowerMizer drivers.<\/p>\n<p>Erik <img class=\"inlineimg\" title=\"Frown\" src=\"http:\/\/forum.notebookreview.com\/images\/smilies\/frown.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sager 9262<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,11,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bussink.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bussink.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bussink.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bussink.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bussink.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bussink.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1985,"href":"https:\/\/www.bussink.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions\/1985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bussink.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bussink.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bussink.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}