With a flick of the wrist, the GeForce GTX 690 turns into a Quadro K5000 or Tesla K10
When you buy a GeForce GTX 690 — the most expensive in the NVidia dual-processor graphics card line — you expect the best performance and support for all features. Well, this is true, but this video card does not support the same technology as its professional colleague Quadro K5000.
If you can remake GeForce in Quadro, you can save about $ 1000. The user with the nickname gnif from the EEV forum took up this, because in the Windows operating system the GTX 690 supports NVIDIA Surround technology, but does not support the Mosaic technology, which is the exclusive technology of the Quadro series, in Linux. It is worth noting the fact that the Quadro K5000 graphics card is single-processor with a frequency lower than that of the 690.
In order to understand how this “upgrade” works, we present several facts. Previously, it was possible to “turn” the GeForce into a Quadro, physically changing one of the hardware switches on the device itself, which is responsible for selecting the PCI Device ID value, which is reported to the system. However, NVidia fixed this "vulnerability". Now you need to make some changes to the board itself to get the final positive result. gnif lists resistors with corresponding codes:
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5K = 8
10K = 9
15K = A
20K = B
25K = C
30K = D
35K = E
40K = F
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 has ID 0x1188, while Quadro K5000 - 0x11BA, Tesla K10 - 0x118F. In short, in order to change the 690 to the K5000 you will need 20K and 15K resistors. And for the "transformation" in the Tesla K10 - 5K and 40K. And it's all. User gnif brought in proof of several screenshots. History is silent about whether the video card works after modification with one processor or with two. Other users suggest that GeForce GTX 660Ti / 670 video cards could be used to “transform” them into 680 in the same way. And yes, this method is valid for modifying the GeForce GTX Titan to Tesla K20.
NVidia did not comment on this story, but simply deleted a similar topic created by the same user from its official forum.
If you can remake GeForce in Quadro, you can save about $ 1000. The user with the nickname gnif from the EEV forum took up this, because in the Windows operating system the GTX 690 supports NVIDIA Surround technology, but does not support the Mosaic technology, which is the exclusive technology of the Quadro series, in Linux. It is worth noting the fact that the Quadro K5000 graphics card is single-processor with a frequency lower than that of the 690.
In order to understand how this “upgrade” works, we present several facts. Previously, it was possible to “turn” the GeForce into a Quadro, physically changing one of the hardware switches on the device itself, which is responsible for selecting the PCI Device ID value, which is reported to the system. However, NVidia fixed this "vulnerability". Now you need to make some changes to the board itself to get the final positive result. gnif lists resistors with corresponding codes:
')
5K = 8
10K = 9
15K = A
20K = B
25K = C
30K = D
35K = E
40K = F
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 has ID 0x1188, while Quadro K5000 - 0x11BA, Tesla K10 - 0x118F. In short, in order to change the 690 to the K5000 you will need 20K and 15K resistors. And for the "transformation" in the Tesla K10 - 5K and 40K. And it's all. User gnif brought in proof of several screenshots. History is silent about whether the video card works after modification with one processor or with two. Other users suggest that GeForce GTX 660Ti / 670 video cards could be used to “transform” them into 680 in the same way. And yes, this method is valid for modifying the GeForce GTX Titan to Tesla K20.
NVidia did not comment on this story, but simply deleted a similar topic created by the same user from its official forum.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/173545/
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