Apple Silicon GPU usage

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In the "computing preferences" settings menu, I have set "use x % of processors" to only 40%, to only use my performance cores, and not my efficiency cores, since this is faster.

But this is also affecting my GPU usage, limiting GPU core usage to 40% as well, cause it's an all in one ARM chip.

 

Please add a graphics/GPU option section to the computing preferences page", where you can select individual settings for the GPU, like GPU usage and GPU time usage.

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Ncard00 wrote: In the

Ncard00 wrote:

In the "computing preferences" settings menu, I have set "use x % of processors" to only 40%, to only use my performance cores, and not my efficiency cores, since this is faster.

But this is also affecting my GPU usage, limiting GPU core usage to 40% as well, cause it's an all in one ARM chip.

 

Please add a graphics/GPU option section to the computing preferences page", where you can select individual settings for the GPU, like GPU usage and GPU time usage.

 

Update: Setting Processor utilization to 100% in both the project settings and BOINC settings, doesn't affect the GPU usage. Highest GPU utilization is 50%, so this might be a separate issue with low GPU utilization.

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Update   changing the 3

Update

 

changing the 3 gpu utilization factor settings on the website from 1.0 to 0,33 allows for 3 tasks at once, and 95% utilization. You might only need to change to 0.5, or you might need to go lower to 0.25 or 0.20, always dividing 1.0 with 2,3,4,5,6 and so on, depending on how powerful your GPU is.

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