Adam Simmons wrote:I'm surprised to hear you say it took up a long time for the testing. I found it only took around 15-20 minutes per card and that includes removing the old one and installing the new one
Our machines are wired into racks and normally stay untouched. I had to pull the machine, and take it up to a workbench. These machines are not internet connected, so we had to pull the files down via laptop, check them and then transfer them to the machine.
The 1060 card was so long that it obstructed some HDDs that had to then be moved, requiring re-routing the cables, and remounting the drives.
The system previously had the Titan X, so drivers had to be completely removed, initially Resolve wouldn't switch to OpenCL from CUDA, so this took a bit of messing around when the RX480 went in. Then there were initially concerns re power, so we had to contact AMD and sort out that issue (they provided patched drivers before they were released to the public, which was great service), then we had to find the footage for the Standard Candle test, download it, run those tests and record the results. Also load some RED footage and do some plugin testing to see if the performance still held across different usage patterns. We also then locked it down to 8x instead of 16x to check the performance.
Then the RX480 had to come out and the 1060 go in, which again meant driver removal, downloading the latest drivers, the aformentioned trouble getting the 1060 to fit, installing the new drivers and then running all the tests again, then coming back here to post results, and trying to fit this all in between paying jobs.
Also, this machine has a RAID card which makes for a very long boot process with each restart, of which there were *many*.
Then the RX480 was put back in the machine, Nvidia drivers removed, AMD drivers installed and the machine placed back in the rack, scanned and put back to work.
So all up, yeah, it took longer than expected.