Cardsreaching the fleet…
Every donated card sits an entrance exam before it may
contribute: one supertile, at a region and a pass count the work
pins, identical on every machine. The time it takes is the only
number in this whole protocol that two strangers’ computers
produce under exactly the same conditions — so it is what this
table ranks on, as passes per second rather than seconds, so
the figure carries across works of different sizes.
What the commons runs on
| card | reports | passes/s | relative | passed | failed |
|---|
Cards running below their own clock
A card can be healthy and still render at a fraction of its speed:
a GeForce GTX 1080 on this bench sat at 708 of 1911 MHz core and
810 of 5005 MHz memory, drawing 21 W of a 180 W board,
while its own driver reported 100% utilisation throughout. It
rendered at one seventh of its speed and nothing anywhere reported a
fault. The donor kit now says so on the spot, and this counts how
often it happens in the wild.
Is it rendering as it should
Every card computes the same seven functions the deterministic
camera is built from. They are not the driver’s own: the
camera carries its own sin, cos, atan, exp2,
log2, sqrt and division, so that the answer cannot depend on
whose silicon ran it.
How to file a row
The kit asks once, shows the row in full first, and sends nothing if
you say nothing. A row describes the card — renderer,
driver, OS, core count, clock state, exam time. Never a serial,
a host name, a user name or an address, and the fleet refuses any
row that carries one.
Groups of a single report are withheld from this page, because on
a rare card an average of one is that machine.
Machines with no usable card
A software rasteriser is the CPU pretending to be a GPU. It opens,
it answers every query, and it runs the work at roughly a
two-hundredth of real hardware — so it is kept out of the
table above rather than ranked last in it. These rows are here
because “this machine had no usable card and fell back to
software” is a true and useful thing for the table to know.
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