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I wonder why there are pikes in your curves ...maybe the power measurement happened just when a sanity check was done, which results in no GPU load, but also no change in PPD ... I’m using SNMP to grab the output Power from the UPS and a call to FAHClient to read the PPD and though the interval is ...

I completely forgot about this thread. I was thinking about running some cards in WS mobos, with x8 Gen 3 bandwidth. I recall there was a PPD drop even in high bandwidth scenarios before, when using multiple GPUs. As long as you have a thread or core dedicated for each GPU if they’re NVidia and you...

This is only true when they're running from a PCIE 16x slot. If they're running from a PCIE1x/4x slot, the power reading is incorrect, as it gets additional power from a riser. In my case, both 1060s are using between 100-110W, deducted from a killawat meter; yet GPUZ reports 107W for one plugged i...

ProDigit wrote:... My 1060 runs at about 350k PPD in a 16x slot, so the readout here is quite high at ~455k PPD per card.

Check your temperatures and GPU clocks. I suspect GPU Boost is downclocking your card. Or Roy you have a 3GB version with less shaders?

Sites may report a typical power draw but I purposely power limit the cards. What I found during FAHBench testing, which does not take into account the Quick Return Bonus, is there is a Knee at the top of the power vs. Performance curve. So I run my cards power limited to 20W or so below the maximum...

No, these are measured values. The PPD agree with the numbers reported by HFM.net and Stanford and the Power agrees with measurements from a Kill-a-Watt. The 2 1060s average 951kPPD over a 14 day period and draw 118W each (120W Limit set) so the calculated system overhead is 61.5W. The 1070Ti averag...

I recently acquired a couple of Eaton dual conversion UPSes and Network Cards. I've managed to hook them up to a couple of folding Rigs and I have achieved Stats Nirvana. GTX 1070Ti and RTX2070 https://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-R8NZjZ8/0/0fdd7e92/O/i-R8NZjZ8.jpg 2 x GTX 1060 6GB https://photos.smu...

My theory is CPU loads data through pcie to GPU and then GPU processes data without CPU until it has a result. Then CPU gets result from GPU through pcie and sends next data to GPU dependent on the result. So the CPU to GPU communication occurs in peaks and then CPU spin waiting time. If the pcie b...

The stats have stopped being updated. The last update occurred at 5:45 GMT today. Yep. I noticed that, too. I have at least 1 WU that was successfully uploaded, but not updated on Stat server. It is a US holiday so that might have something to do with it. If you have been folding for a while, you p...

@JimboPalmer: Core_a7 uses AVX (non 2) @gordonbb: Which problem do you have with AMD video drivers? Or is this the AMD drivers classic joke? I _thought_ I’d read here, somewhere, that there were performance issues with the AMD OpenCL implementation which caused their GPUs to underperform. @bruce pe...

I noticed during coverage of the Ryzen preview at CES when they were comparing the new Zen to Intel one of the benchmarks was reporting in ns/d. Sounds like a workload we’re all familiar with!

Now if only they could get their video drivers working better ...

I have the GTX 1060, and unless you're planning on overclocking with no more than a few Mhz, it's not going to work as well for folding. When gaming there's more tolerance to errors. For folding, it's recommended to keep the cards running stock. Even at a safe overclock (50% from the max safe overc...

AnandTech has run the FAHbench Single Precision test on the RTX 2060 and it has scored higher than the GTX 1070 Ti and 1080 Founder’s editions and slightly slower than the RTX 2070 which it shares a stripped-down version of the TU106 core with. $349.99US for 850,000 to 1,000,000 PPD at 150W power c...

In my testing I saw only slight increases (2-4%) in FAHBench Overclocking memory. Overclocking the Graphics (Shader) clock will give the most change but it is tricky as WUs will vary in terms of how hard they push the GPU and a offset that appears stable can start crashing when it hits a new workloa...

I find I have to take the numbers on the Overclock.net database with several tablespoons of salt (sorry I should have posted to forum link where it originated for context). And as several others have mentioned you need to look at the individual results keeping an eye on the Shader clock speeds and t...