Precision 7510 Owner's Thread

Nvidia Quadro comes with a software tool that shows power consumption by the dGPU. This screenshot below is with the Quadro unused... it still is powered of course, so it uses some (no programs currently using it). the dGPU is only consuming 13 watts. AMD probably has something similar to check usage in realtime.

 

It has a setting in the nvidia control panel to "Display GPU Activity Icon in Notification Area."

 

if it interests you, you may want to explore developing openCL using your AMD GPU.
http://developer.amd.com/tools-and-sdks/opencl-zone/amd-accelerated-parallel-processing-app-sdk/

 

Yes, I often look down in the notification area to be sure it's not being used when it is not needed. But it doesn't tell us much more than that. The nvidia-smi.exe is quite nice in that it shows just about everything going on with the quadro if you give it the right command options

$ nvidia-smi.exe -q

==============NVSMI LOG==============

Timestamp : Wed Mar 30 20:53:42 2016
Driver Version : 361.91

Attached GPUs : 1
GPU 0000:01:00.0
Product Name : Quadro M5000M
Product Brand : Quadro
Display Mode : Disabled
Display Active : Disabled
Persistence Mode : N/A
Accounting Mode : Disabled
Accounting Mode Buffer Size : 1920
Driver Model
Current : WDDM
Pending : WDDM
Serial Number : N/A
GPU UUID : GPU-3527eac0-5a33-6b68-0ebe-6fffe4d90c1b
Minor Number : N/A
VBIOS Version : 84.04.6D.00.08
MultiGPU Board : No
Board ID : 0x100
GPU Part Number : N/A
Inforom Version
Image Version : N/A
OEM Object : N/A
ECC Object : N/A
Power Management Object : N/A
GPU Operation Mode
Current : N/A
Pending : N/A
PCI
Bus : 0x01
Device : 0x00
Domain : 0x0000
Device Id : 0x13F810DE
Bus Id : 0000:01:00.0
Sub System Id : 0x06DA1028
GPU Link Info
PCIe Generation
Max : 3
Current : 1
Link Width
Max : 16x
Current : 16x
Bridge Chip
Type : N/A
Firmware : N/A
Replays since reset : 0
Tx Throughput : 6000 KB/s
Rx Throughput : 1000 KB/s
Fan Speed : N/A
Performance State : P8
Clocks Throttle Reasons
Idle : Not Active
Applications Clocks Setting : Not Active
SW Power Cap : Not Active
HW Slowdown : Not Active
Unknown : Not Active
FB Memory Usage
Total : 8192 MiB
Used : 98 MiB
Free : 8094 MiB
BAR1 Memory Usage
Total : 256 MiB
Used : 239 MiB
Free : 17 MiB
Compute Mode : Default
Utilization
Gpu : 0 %
Memory : 0 %
Encoder : 0 %
Decoder : 0 %
Ecc Mode
Current : N/A
Pending : N/A
ECC Errors
Volatile
Single Bit
Device Memory : N/A
Register File : N/A
L1 Cache : N/A
L2 Cache : N/A
Texture Memory : N/A
Total : N/A
Double Bit
Device Memory : N/A
Register File : N/A
L1 Cache : N/A
L2 Cache : N/A
Texture Memory : N/A
Total : N/A
Aggregate
Single Bit
Device Memory : N/A
Register File : N/A
L1 Cache : N/A
L2 Cache : N/A
Texture Memory : N/A
Total : N/A
Double Bit
Device Memory : N/A
Register File : N/A
L1 Cache : N/A
L2 Cache : N/A
Texture Memory : N/A
Total : N/A
Retired Pages
Single Bit ECC : N/A
Double Bit ECC : N/A
Pending : N/A
Temperature
GPU Current Temp : 39 C
GPU Shutdown Temp : 96 C
GPU Slowdown Temp : 91 C
Power Readings
Power Management : Supported
Power Draw : 8.65 W
Power Limit : 100.00 W
Default Power Limit : 100.00 W
Enforced Power Limit : 100.00 W
Min Power Limit : 0.00 W
Max Power Limit : 100.00 W
Clocks
Graphics : 405 MHz
SM : 405 MHz
Memory : 324 MHz
Video : 405 MHz
Applications Clocks
Graphics : 962 MHz
Memory : 2505 MHz
Default Applications Clocks
Graphics : 962 MHz
Memory : 2505 MHz
Max Clocks
Graphics : 1050 MHz
SM : 1050 MHz
Memory : 2505 MHz
Video : 966 MHz
Clock Policy
Auto Boost : N/A
Auto Boost Default : N/A
Processes
Process ID : 604
Type : Insufficient Permissions
Name : Insufficient Permissions
Used GPU Memory : Not available in WDDM driver model


There is also this utility included in the CUDA toolkit:
C:\ProgramData\NVIDIA Corporation\CUDA Samples\v7.5\bin\win64\Debug\deviceQuery.exe Starting...

CUDA Device Query (Runtime API) version (CUDART static linking)

Detected 1 CUDA Capable device(s)

Device 0: "Quadro M5000M"
CUDA Driver Version / Runtime Version 8.0 / 7.5
CUDA Capability Major/Minor version number: 5.2
Total amount of global memory: 8192 MBytes (8589934592 bytes)
(12) Multiprocessors, (128) CUDA Cores/MP: 1536 CUDA Cores
GPU Max Clock rate: 1051 MHz (1.05 GHz)
Memory Clock rate: 2505 Mhz
Memory Bus Width: 256-bit
L2 Cache Size: 2097152 bytes
Maximum Texture Dimension Size (x,y,z) 1D=(65536), 2D=(65536, 65536), 3D=(4096, 4096, 4096)
Maximum Layered 1D Texture Size, (num) layers 1D=(16384), 2048 layers
Maximum Layered 2D Texture Size, (num) layers 2D=(16384, 16384), 2048 layers
Total amount of constant memory: 65536 bytes
Total amount of shared memory per block: 49152 bytes
Total number of registers available per block: 65536
Warp size: 32
Maximum number of threads per multiprocessor: 2048
Maximum number of threads per block: 1024
Max dimension size of a thread block (x,y,z): (1024, 1024, 64)
Max dimension size of a grid size (x,y,z): (2147483647, 65535, 65535)
Maximum memory pitch: 2147483647 bytes
Texture alignment: 512 bytes
Concurrent copy and kernel execution: Yes with 2 copy engine(s)
Run time limit on kernels: Yes
Integrated GPU sharing Host Memory: No
Support host page-locked memory mapping: Yes
Alignment requirement for Surfaces: Yes
Device has ECC support: Disabled
CUDA Device Driver Mode (TCC or WDDM): WDDM (Windows Display Driver Model)
Device supports Unified Addressing (UVA): Yes
Device PCI Domain ID / Bus ID / location ID: 0 / 1 / 0
Compute Mode:
< Default (multiple host threads can use ::cudaSetDevice() with device simultaneously) >

deviceQuery, CUDA Driver = CUDART, CUDA Driver Version = 8.0, CUDA Runtime Version = 7.5, NumDevs = 1, Device0 = Quadro M5000M
Result = PASS

 

On previous generations, you could physically remove the discrete GPU and the system would work just fine on the Intel GPU only. I don't know of anyone who has tried with this one but I imagine it is the same. We've already confirmed that external displays run off of the Intel GPU (except e-port dock displays).

 

LGD049B

 

A few people were asking about docking stations earlier in this thread. I just got my Thunderbolt dock today, to go with my 7510. So far, I think the biggest annoyance is when you plug it in - it takes the computer about 20 seconds to recognize all the devices in the daisy chain. But once it finishes connecting, it's great. Disconnecting is faster, it only takes like 5 seconds.

I still haven't figured out how to play sound through the headphone jack, but everything else appears to work just fine.

 

I had an issue with one of three TB15 where the rear speaker jack did not work. On the two that work, I can plug headphones or speakers in the front or rear jack. When plugging in the front, the Dell Audio tool will popup asking which audio device do you want to use. I think it did that on the rear too before the Dock Audio Driver 6.3.9600.44. This makes sense since I have speakers plugged in the back jack and when docked, always want to use the speakers and do not want to deal with the message every time I dock. Then in the front, having the popup ask if you want to switch to headphones (in case I want to plug headphones in).

Note, on the dell support site, to get this driver, it does not come up with my tag. Instead, I have to select show all drivers for the 7710.

 

I didn't even realize that there was an audio jack on the back! The icon on mine is different from the pictures on Dell's website - it looks like the power icon (circle with an arrow through the right side). I wonder if it got misprinted somehow? I've never seen anything like that used for audio. Weird...

Anyway, I've tried that driver and it doesn't seem to help (in fact, it seems to make the USB peripherals act all flaky). I've tried plugging and replugging into both audio jacks. In both cases, the audio continues playing through the laptop speakers. The Dell Audio popup comes up for the front jack only - even when I select headphones, it still plays through the laptop speakers.

 

What driver version do you have for the Dock USB Audio?

You can try right clicking the Windows Speaker icon in the taskbar and select playback devices and choose the different devices.