Most RAC for least electricity

Tom M
Tom M
Joined: 2 Feb 06
Posts: 6,254
Credit: 8,892,303,595
RAC: 9,755,029
Topic 225996

Does anyone have some numbers?

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Ian&Steve C.
Ian&Steve C.
Joined: 19 Jan 20
Posts: 3,902
Credit: 43,644,782,643
RAC: 63,167,233

Power Limiting and/or

Power Limiting and/or undervolting is what you're after.

 

https://einsteinathome.org/host/12803503

  • 8x 2070 @150W each (1200W)
  • ~8,000,000 RAC
  • ~6,666 credit/watt

 

https://einsteinathome.org/host/12803483

  • 7x 2080 @185W each (1295W)
  • ~8,000,000 RAC
  • ~6177 credit/watt

 

https://einsteinathome.org/host/12803486

  • 7x 2080Ti @225W each (1575W)
  • ~10,600,000 RAC
  • ~6730 credit/watt

 

https://einsteinathome.org/host/12830750

  • 1x 3080Ti @300W
  • ~2,550,000 RAC
  • ~8500 credit/watt

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petri33
petri33
Joined: 4 Mar 20
Posts: 123
Credit: 3,702,265,819
RAC: 7,136,560

My rig : 12836077 One

My rig : 12836077

One Titan V @180W and three RTX2080Ti @270-290W each, totalling 1010W

RAC 6 600 000

6535 RAC/W

The titan does one task in 146 seconds, i.e. it uses least energy and produces most credit on my machine. It is thermally throttled air cooled nice and warm 88C. I do not know how fast it would be when properly cooled and using its 300W.

How much energy per credit?

Energy: 87264000 J    (24*3600s*1010J/s, about half a gallon of diesel fuel worth of energy)

Consumption :  87264000J / 6600000 CREDIT = 13.2 J/Cr

 

 

 

 

Ian&Steve C.
Ian&Steve C.
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That titanV is certainly the

That titanV is certainly the best efficiency card on the project at the moment. ~11,000 credit/watt for it alone.

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clima90
clima90
Joined: 25 Jul 20
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Good evening

Good evening everyone.

 

This is my first post in einestein@home.

 

I would have one question. Does anyone tried a gpu Nvidia quadro(rtx 4000, A4000, 5000, ecc) for the project?

 

Thanks

Ian&Steve C.
Ian&Steve C.
Joined: 19 Jan 20
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clima90 wrote: Good evening

clima90 wrote:

Good evening everyone.

 

This is my first post in einestein@home.

 

I would have one question. Does anyone tried a gpu Nvidia quadro(rtx 4000, A4000, 5000, ecc) for the project?

 

Thanks

I expect they will perform in line with similarly spec’d GTX/RTX GeForce cards. Einstein’s ( and most other BOINC projects) user base is mostly composed of hobbyist volunteers. The price to performance of the professional level cards often isn’t worth it, and that’s the main reason most people don’t run them. The extra features brought with quadro cards (more vram, FP64) usually do little for the purposes of Einstein. 


if you have it already, go for it. But I wouldn’t pay the extra cost just to have one over a GeForce card. 

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clima90
clima90
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Ok thanks. My main thought

Ok thanks.

My main thought has been also on the performance/power ratio (FP32/TDP).

All gaming geforce RTX have a ratio less than 110 (for example ASUS ROG STRIX LC RTX 3080 Ti GAMING OC has the FP32 of 37480 GFLOPS with TDP 350 watt with FP32/TDP = 107 and a cost of 2000€ or over)

"https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/asus-rog-strix-lc-rtx-3080-ti-gaming-oc.b8952)"

 

An RTX A4000 has the FP32 of 19170 GFLOPS with TDP of 140 watt with FP32/TDP = 136.9 and a cost of 1200€ (this price is what I have found)

https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/rtx-a4000.c3756

 

With this ratio and a cost less than an gaming RTX, it could be an advantage?

I have not considered RTX A5000 and A6000 because the price is higher than gaming RTX and it is not convenient.

What do you think?

 

Thanks

Ian&Steve C.
Ian&Steve C.
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for Einstein, that RTX A4000

for Einstein, that RTX A4000 will perform about on par with an RTX 3070. the A4000 has slightly more cores, but it's offset by the lower clock speed vs the 3070. The 3070 pulls ahead, and is much less expensive. you may find thermal constraints (or noise if that's a factor for you) on the single slot cooler of the A4000 as well, even with lower TDP.

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mikey
mikey
Joined: 22 Jan 05
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Credit: 1,838,590,205
RAC: 3,587

Tom M wrote: Does anyone have

Tom M wrote:
 Does anyone have some numbers? 

If you are talking gpu Collatz is the hands down winner by a WIDE margin, cpu I don't know anymore

Tom M
Tom M
Joined: 2 Feb 06
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Credit: 8,892,303,595
RAC: 9,755,029

mikey wrote: Tom M

mikey wrote:

Tom M wrote:
 Does anyone have some numbers? 

If you are talking gpu Collatz is the hands down winner by a WIDE margin, cpu I don't know anymore

Good point. Collatz seems to be exceptionally free with their awarding of points.

Doesn't help when mapped to E@H though.

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mikey
mikey
Joined: 22 Jan 05
Posts: 12,544
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RAC: 3,587

Tom M wrote: mikey

Tom M wrote:

mikey wrote:

Tom M wrote:
 Does anyone have some numbers? 

If you are talking gpu Collatz is the hands down winner by a WIDE margin, cpu I don't know anymore

Good point. Collatz seems to be exceptionally free with their awarding of points.

Doesn't help when mapped to E@H though.

That narrows the answer quite a bit then and I think it's:

Gamma-ray pulsar binary search #1 (GPU) at 3k credits per short task

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