12-18-2021, 04:46 PM
(This post was last modified: 12-21-2021, 09:54 PM by meow.
Edit Reason: purr
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Hi!
Forum rules say:
"Do not post issues about using a GPU that is no longer supported by the latest driver from its vendor."
https://hashcat.net/forum/announcement-2.html
So I would like to start off by establishing if GTX 560 Ti is supported or not by the current version of Hashcat.
By "vendor" you mean Nvidia, right?
I have this GPU:
https://www.asus.com/SupportOnly/ENGTX56..._Download/
Latest driver available there is version 306.23 from Oct 25, 2012.
I looked at the Nvida driver download page I find newer drivers:
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/drivers/
They have version 391.35 from Mar 27, 2018.
That's still 3 years too old for Hashcat to support it?
I also wonder if it's possible that the same GPU is still supported on Linux based OSes if the vendor is not Nvidia and is still maintained? I am running Windows on it.
I also looked at the "Is your card supported" sticky thread:
https://hashcat.net/forum/thread-919.html
Following the link for Nvidia reveals a list where GTX 560 is listed as having "Compute Capability" of version "2.0". What does that tell me? It has CUDA cores?... I know it has CUDA cores, 384 of them, not many by today's measure but it still does have them.
"Is your card supported"... in what sense? This question is ill-defined. Yes, GTX 560 Ti does have CUDA support if that's what you're after, but the real question is if it's supported by Hashcat! None of those links lead to answers of such questions.
I didn't look closer at the GitHub link for AMD GPUs as it seems to be programming related rather than displaying what AMD GPUs are compatible with Hashcat, and in that sense, it's the same as the Nvidia link displaying what Nvidia GPUs are CUDA compatible. That sticky alone is as old as GTX 560 itself, I don't see how that's helpful at all (someone please fill me in), other than showing you if your GPU got CUDAs, in hope that Hashcat of the time had support for your model so you could leverage good hash(-ish) performance.
Do you have a list of your own that clearly indicates what GPU cards are supported by Hashcat? A compatibility chart with Hashcat version numbers would be very helpful.
I could go on and download an old version of Hashcat to see if that works better with my GPU. It's just that there are so many versions, it would be helpful to be able to narrow it down a little, and the issue may not be related to GPU drivers anyway (the rule is presuming that the issue is related to outdated driver). So for that reason I am reluctant to go down this rabbit hole, it's not that I am lazy. But thanks to this clearly defined rule, I have hit a road block before I had the chance to tell you what the problem is that I'm having with this GPU. So it seems I won't be able to ask for help with Hashcat on Hashcat forums, not until I upgrade my GPU to something more recent, in which case I may not need your help at all.
Playfully yours,
meow
🐈
Forum rules say:
"Do not post issues about using a GPU that is no longer supported by the latest driver from its vendor."
https://hashcat.net/forum/announcement-2.html
So I would like to start off by establishing if GTX 560 Ti is supported or not by the current version of Hashcat.
By "vendor" you mean Nvidia, right?
I have this GPU:
https://www.asus.com/SupportOnly/ENGTX56..._Download/
Latest driver available there is version 306.23 from Oct 25, 2012.
I looked at the Nvida driver download page I find newer drivers:
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/drivers/
They have version 391.35 from Mar 27, 2018.
That's still 3 years too old for Hashcat to support it?
I also wonder if it's possible that the same GPU is still supported on Linux based OSes if the vendor is not Nvidia and is still maintained? I am running Windows on it.
I also looked at the "Is your card supported" sticky thread:
https://hashcat.net/forum/thread-919.html
Following the link for Nvidia reveals a list where GTX 560 is listed as having "Compute Capability" of version "2.0". What does that tell me? It has CUDA cores?... I know it has CUDA cores, 384 of them, not many by today's measure but it still does have them.
"Is your card supported"... in what sense? This question is ill-defined. Yes, GTX 560 Ti does have CUDA support if that's what you're after, but the real question is if it's supported by Hashcat! None of those links lead to answers of such questions.
I didn't look closer at the GitHub link for AMD GPUs as it seems to be programming related rather than displaying what AMD GPUs are compatible with Hashcat, and in that sense, it's the same as the Nvidia link displaying what Nvidia GPUs are CUDA compatible. That sticky alone is as old as GTX 560 itself, I don't see how that's helpful at all (someone please fill me in), other than showing you if your GPU got CUDAs, in hope that Hashcat of the time had support for your model so you could leverage good hash(-ish) performance.
Do you have a list of your own that clearly indicates what GPU cards are supported by Hashcat? A compatibility chart with Hashcat version numbers would be very helpful.
I could go on and download an old version of Hashcat to see if that works better with my GPU. It's just that there are so many versions, it would be helpful to be able to narrow it down a little, and the issue may not be related to GPU drivers anyway (the rule is presuming that the issue is related to outdated driver). So for that reason I am reluctant to go down this rabbit hole, it's not that I am lazy. But thanks to this clearly defined rule, I have hit a road block before I had the chance to tell you what the problem is that I'm having with this GPU. So it seems I won't be able to ask for help with Hashcat on Hashcat forums, not until I upgrade my GPU to something more recent, in which case I may not need your help at all.
Playfully yours,
meow
🐈