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GPU clock speeds on nVidia Ion


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AIDA64 Extreme Edition Beta 1.60.1314

Laptop is an HP Mini 311-1000NR.

GPU is nVidia ion.

Under Sidebar Items regarding GPU clock speeds I have two items available;

GPU Clock

GPU Shader Clock

Both show 100MHz constantly while monitoring which is honestly useless information and I really have no idea to what it's referring. Neither of the GPU clock speed items available under Sidebar are helpful because both constantly show 100MHz as their readings.

1.) On the main page of AIDA64 under Display/GPU I see RAMDAC clock which honestly reports the GPU Core Speed. (Currently at 400MHz as I type this.)

2.) Under Display/GPGPU/Device Properties I see a Clock Rate item correctly listing the GPU Shader Clock speed currently at 1100MHz.

3.) I can not locate a working report of GPU Memory Clock anywhere although both GPU-Z and CPU-Z both show the memory clock (And core and shader) correctly.

Is there a way I can add RAMDAC and Clock Rate listed above (And GPU Memory Clock if possible.) to the items I can monitor in the Sidebar? These are the items I would like to monitor on my desktop via the Sidebar Gadget.

Thank you for your assistance.

EDIT: I have just downloaded and tested the latest beta, 1.60.1339, and the problem persists.

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100 MHz clock is reported because at idle your GPU is running at PCI Express nominal clock speed (100 MHz) to save power. It is a common power management technique of nVIDIA IGP GPUs.

1) That is a pure coincidence. All modern GPUs are equipped with a 400 MHz capable RAMDAC, but that doesn't mean it has any relation with the GPU core clock at all.

2) GPGPU device properties reflect the capability of the GPU, and not the actual speed it is running at. The actual speed is 100 MHz at idle, as reported on the GPU page.

3) IGP chips (like nVIDIA Ion) usually use the system memory as frame buffer and texture memory, and so it makes no sense to display memory speed or memory properties on the GPU page. Instead, AIDA64 shows the system memory type and clock rates on the Computer / Overclock and Motherboard / Motherboard[/b] pages. You can also have the system memory clock speed and timings displayed on the Sidebar Gadget.

Regards,

Fiery

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Sorry but I'm just having a really hard time understanding that.

Can you please look at this image?

http://mysite.ncnetwork.net/res89pejl/furmark.jpg

You can clearly see and agree that while Furmark is running my core and memory speeds should be ramped up from 100MHz. In fact they are being reported by every software monitoring tool I use (Furmark, GPUZ, CPUZ, HWiNFO32, Nvidia Tools, etc.) as 450MHz and 1064MHz. Yet AIDA64 always, no matter the load, reports my GPU speeds at 100MHz.

To add even more to this no other software monitoring tool, not one single time, will ever report any of these speeds at 100MHz.

Even further, when looking at the possible clocks speeds in my VBIOS under a multitude of conditions running at 100MHz is not even an option.

Unless I'm missing something here it definitely appears as if AIDA64 is incorrectly reporting these speeds.

Can you please shed any light on this?

Thank you for your time.

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You're right, that is not normal. Please right-click on the bottom status bar of AIDA64 main window --> Video Debug --> nVIDIA GPU Registers. Copy-paste the full results into this topic.

Thanks,

Fiery

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Certainly. Thank you.

------[ AIDA64 v1.60.1339 Beta ]------

------[ Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 6.1.7601 (32-bit) ]------

------[ Video Adapters ]------

nVIDIA Ion [10DE-0876 / 103C-3651]

------[ Video Driver ]------

nvapi.dll: 8.17.12.7051

nvd3dum||8.17.12.7051 - nVIDIA ForceWare 270.51|||nvwgf2um||8.17.12.7051|||nvwgf2um||8.17.12.7051

nvd3dum||8.17.12.7051 - nVIDIA ForceWare 270.51|||nvwgf2um||8.17.12.7051|||nvwgf2um||8.17.12.7051

------[ nVIDIA GPU #1 @ mem D2000000 ]------

GPU Clocks = 100 / 100 / 0 MHz

Memory Clock = 0 MHz

GPU Base Clock = 27000 kHz

Shader Base Clock = 27000 kHz

Memory Base Clock = 27000 kHz

nvidia-000000 = 0ACB00B1

nvidia-0010F0 = 00000000

nvidia-001218 = 00000000

nvidia-001540 = F3010001

nvidia-0015F4 = 00000000

nvidia-0015F8 = 00000000

nvidia-0015FC = 00000000

nvidia-001600 = 00000000

nvidia-001850 = 00000000

nvidia-004000 = 00000000

nvidia-004004 = 00000000

nvidia-004008 = 00000000

nvidia-00400C = 00000000

nvidia-004018 = 00000000

nvidia-00401C = 00000000

nvidia-004020 = 80000000

nvidia-004024 = 00001001

nvidia-004028 = 00010000

nvidia-00402C = 00001203

nvidia-00C040 = 2EE11008

nvidia-00E114 = 00000001

nvidia-00E118 = 00000000

nvidia-00E11C = 00000001

nvidia-00E120 = 00000000

nvidia-020014 = FA2D0399

nvidia-020400 = 00000030

nvidia-100000 = 0000C042

nvidia-100200 = 00000000

nvidia-10020C = 10000000

nvidia-100214 = 00000000

nvidia-100474 = 00000000

nvidia-100714 = 00000000

nvidia-100914 = 00000000

nvidia-101000 = 9FC098C0

nvidia-300000 = B342BE3E

nvidia-310000 = B342BE3E

nvidia-700000 = 0420B104

nvidia-7E0000 = EB7CAA55

------[ nVIDIA GPU #1 / ForceWare Properties ]------

Memory Type = 3 (DDR2)

Memory Bank Count = 1

Memory Bus Width = 128-bit

GPU / MC / VE Load = 0 / 0 / 0

VPE Count = 0

Shader Pipe Count = 1

Shader SubPipe Count = 2

Total SP Count = 16

Total TPC Count = 1

Total SM Count = 2

Core Count = 16

Partition Count = 2

Fan RPM = <unknown>

Core Voltage = 900 mV

Current Pstate = 12

Ventura State = 0 (unsupported)

Physical Frame Buffer Size = 262144 KB

Virtual Frame Buffer Size = 1441792 KB

Total / Free Video Memory = 262144 KB / 208668 KB

------[ nVIDIA GPU #1 / ForceWare Clocks ]------

Perf. Levels = 4

Active Profile = 0

curr-core/shader/mem-0 = 200 MHz / 400 MHz / 1064 MHz [Active]

curr-core/shader/mem-1 = 300 MHz / 600 MHz / 1064 MHz

curr-core/shader/mem-2 = 350 MHz / 800 MHz / 1064 MHz

curr-core/shader/mem-3 = 450 MHz / 1100 MHz / 1064 MHz

orig-core/shader/mem-0 = 200 MHz / 400 MHz / 1064 MHz [Active]

orig-core/shader/mem-1 = 300 MHz / 600 MHz / 1064 MHz

orig-core/shader/mem-2 = 350 MHz / 800 MHz / 1064 MHz

orig-core/shader/mem-3 = 450 MHz / 1100 MHz / 1064 MHz

------[ NVAPI GPU Handles ]------

GPU Count = 1

GPU #1 = BB000200

------[ nVIDIA GPU #1 / Thermal Settings ]------

Sensor Count = 1

Sensor #0 / Controller = GPU Internal

Sensor #0 / Target = GPU Core

Sensor #0 / Current Temp = 49 Celsius

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