Regulating GeForce RTX 2060 Super Load

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Diogo Azevedo
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Regulating GeForce RTX 2060 Super Load

Post by Diogo Azevedo »

Hello
I'm using a GeForce RTX 2060 Super.
Is there a way to change GPU load in the process of computing data when using Folding version 8.3X ?
Contrary to CPU load, and differently from prevoius version 7.X, there seems to be no place to regulate or interfere with the GPU load, and this causes my GPU overheat frequently, although I only compute when idle...
Thank you very much to who can give me some clues on this
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Re: Regulating GeForce RTX 2060 Super Load

Post by Duce H_K_ »

When I installed Folding version 8+ i saw no GPU slot and I didn't find way to add it.
Had to go back to 7.6.21 in which one my RTX3070 loading is 95% avg. It allows me to play UT3 1080p 60 locked FPS. Delight(=
Maybe owners of RTX 2060 Super will post something here.
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bollix47
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Re: Regulating GeForce RTX 2060 Super Load

Post by bollix47 »

@ Diogo .... There are free products like MSI Afterburner that can adjust GPU usage settings

@Duce H_K .... For v8 you need to go to https://v8-4.foldingathome.org/machines (client needs to be running .... if it's not after installing, reboot)
After that you can login (top right) or click on settings (gear) and enable your GPU
https://foldingathome.org/v8-3-client-guide/
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Re: Regulating GeForce RTX 2060 Super Load

Post by pcwolf »

On Linux I can issue a bash alias to regulate GPU power levels:

alias Super200="sudo nvidia-smi -i 0 -pl 200"
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Re: Regulating GeForce RTX 2060 Super Load

Post by BobWilliams757 »

I'll add to the above that if your GPU is overheating ever you should be looking at the fan curves, both for the GPU and system fans.

Removing heat is key, and even at reduced power levels gpus create heat.

The suggested MSI Afterburner app will allow you to set curves for your GPU. System fans are often controlled somewhere in BIOS or by third-party app means.
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Re: Regulating GeForce RTX 2060 Super Load

Post by appepi »

For more than 2 years I have been folding with three Asus Turbo RTX 2060 (not super) - all bought second-hand on eBay - for at least 9 hours/day and with no other load - without any failures so far. I also use other GTX 10xx GPUs intermittently, and in all cases I use ASUS GPU-Tweak II or III with a user-defined profile creatively named FOLDING that sets a target of 100% power but only 70 deg C GPU temperature, and a user-defined fan profile that is just the 3-point piecewise linear default one with the mid-point shifted to 70 deg C/50% speed and the top point at 90 deg /C 100%. I also find HWInfo useful to monitor the actual power use of the GPU when folding, just as a check that things are behaving as I expect from the settings. I also invested in some replacement fans just in case but haven't needed any yet. The LAR systems app generally tells me that my GPU's are performing at only a few percentage points below the average, so there isn't a significant performance penalty for staying cool at about 70 deg +/- 2. The fans can get a bit noisy but I'm not working when they're folding and anyway they are in other rooms. No doubt MSI afterburner is fine too, but most of my GPUs are ASUS and I find GPU Tweak simple to use. The way I figure it is that heat is the killer and fans are cheap. I should maybe note that I only run GPU clients so that the CPU's don't have much to do.
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