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Skip Da Shu
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Skip Da Shu wrote:mountkidd

Skip Da Shu wrote:

mountkidd wrote:

Skip, I'm with Ian on this one - something is fubar'd.  Looking back at my BRP7 data from a month ago, my 3060ti (win/cuda) was 1100sec for x2 and my 3070 (ub/opencl) was 1210sec for x2.  All with the standard E@H apps and nothing but BRP7 running on the hosts.

So even with a /3 that's still 605 vs 784 but the 3070 is in a 5900X box so 20+ CPU tasks running a mixed bag of other stuff.

I'll take another look at that 3070 box when I get back from dropping of the truck for some transmission recall thing.

Skip

OK so on a box: https://einsteinathome.org/host/13148773

Linux Mint v21.2 w/ 6.2 kernel, 16GB of CL16-3600, Ryzen 5700X w/ a locked all-core freq of 4400MHz, 15 of 16 CPU threads avail to BOINC and a single 3070 (Asus Megalodon) in it. 

I NNT'd the other GPU projects and suspended anything GPU that wasn't E@H @ 10:25am zulu.  It's now running 2 Meerkat B(u)RP7s (stock app) at a time so we'll see what those WU times look like.  It's fairly steady pulling 164~166w against a PL of 245w, sclk 2085, mclk 6861 (from watch scripts of nvidia-smi and nvidia-settings) using ~2025MB vram.

Going back thru prior results from it I think I can tell when one of these WUs was running paired with some other projects WU (Prime or Asteroids) because the WU time goes off the tracks (up or down).  Just visual looking at the past WUs that don't have the deviated times I'd say it's doing 2x BRP7 WUs in a bit over 1200 seconds.

Should have 'nuff results by EOD to confirm and do some averaging... but this looks a lot more in-line with your 3070 results. 

I'll go over to the 6600XT (probably an Asus Dual) box (same OS, ver and kernel, but a 5700G w/ 32GB of CL18-3600 and probably an "Auto" all-core freq) and do similar parsing down to get to just 2x BRP7 WUs for better times on it.

Thanx, Skip

 

The 6600XT box: https://einsteinathome.org/host/13150764

Monitor connect to APU for xorg/cinnamon.  Via Corectrl: 1669MB vram, sclk 2785, mclk 1004, pulling 63~86w against a PL of 161w. CPU is auto but averaging ~ 4050MHz same 93.75% of CPU threads to BOINC.

 

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Skip, My 3060ti runs

Skip,

My 3060ti runs with a PL 153W and the 3070 uses PL 180W. On both cards the mem clk is set to the max design speed 14000 MHz. The gpu clk floats within the design gpu-mem-PL table. Card pwr shows as the PL. 

On your linked hosts, card pwr is much lower than the PL. On the 3070, reduce the PL to 170W to allow the card more flexibility in its choice of gpu/mem clk rates and ensure that PowerMizer Settings/Preferred mode has ‘prefer max performance’ selected. 
 

On your 6600XT card power is idling. Corectrl has Performance Mode settings for both the cpu and gpu. Set both the High(est) possible. 

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3070   ES7C91

3070

 

ES7C91 E@H @ 2x on Meg 3070    
Date/time reported Run CPU
     
19 Oct 2023 11:17:41 UTC 1071 1069
19 Oct 2023 11:17:41 UTC 1236 1236
19 Oct 2023 11:43:14 UTC 1245 1245
19 Oct 2023 11:43:14 UTC 1246 1246
19 Oct 2023 12:10:48 UTC 1218 1218
19 Oct 2023 12:10:48 UTC 1232 1233
19 Oct 2023 12:46:14 UTC 1237 1237
19 Oct 2023 12:46:14 UTC 1237 1238
19 Oct 2023 13:04:52 UTC 1222 1222
19 Oct 2023 13:47:31 UTC 1212 1212
19 Oct 2023 13:47:31 UTC 1199 1200
19 Oct 2023 14:52:14 UTC 1226 1226
19 Oct 2023 14:52:14 UTC 1226 1227
19 Oct 2023 14:52:14 UTC 1229 1229
19 Oct 2023 14:52:14 UTC 1241 1242
19 Oct 2023 14:59:04 UTC 1243 1244
     
Avg 1220 1220.25
     
  610  
Skip Da Shu
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6600XT ES7C95 E@H

6600XT

ES7C95 E@H @ 2x on 6600XT    
Date/time reported Run CPU
     
19 Oct 2023 12:50:29 UTC 1825 188
19 Oct 2023 13:14:48 UTC 1240 166
19 Oct 2023 13:37:31 UTC 1230 170
19 Oct 2023 13:37:31 UTC 1229 168
19 Oct 2023 14:05:42 UTC 1241 170
19 Oct 2023 14:41:28 UTC 1214 162
19 Oct 2023 14:41:28 UTC 1235 167
19 Oct 2023 15:22:28 UTC 1228 163
19 Oct 2023 15:22:28 UTC 1238 168
     
Avg 1297.77 169.11
     
  648.88  
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3080 &

3080 & 3060ti

MS7C91 E@H @ 2x on 3080 & 3060t    
         
                                          3080                          3060ti
   
19 Oct 2023 13:41:09 UTC 854 853    
19 Oct 2023 13:26:37 UTC     2108 2103
19 Oct 2023 13:41:09 UTC 854 853    
19 Oct 2023 13:26:37 UTC 884 880    
19 Oct 2023 13:55:35 UTC 862 861    
19 Oct 2023 14:12:44 UTC     1430 1429
19 Oct 2023 14:12:44 UTC 858 858    
19 Oct 2023 14:12:44 UTC     1430 1429
19 Oct 2023 13:55:35 UTC 870 869    
19 Oct 2023 14:12:44 UTC 874 873    
19 Oct 2023 14:12:44 UTC 873 872    
19 Oct 2023 14:44:49 UTC 839 838    
19 Oct 2023 15:52:04 UTC 818 818    
19 Oct 2023 14:44:49 UTC 852 851    
19 Oct 2023 14:44:49 UTC 837 837    
19 Oct 2023 15:52:04 UTC     1429 1428
19 Oct 2023 15:52:04 UTC     1429 1428
19 Oct 2023 14:44:49 UTC     1407 1405
19 Oct 2023 14:44:49 UTC     1407 1406
19 Oct 2023 15:52:04 UTC 832 831    
19 Oct 2023 15:52:04 UTC     1413 1412
19 Oct 2023 15:52:04 UTC     1413 1412
19 Oct 2023 15:52:04 UTC 830 829    
19 Oct 2023 15:52:04 UTC 834 834    
19 Oct 2023 15:52:04 UTC 823 821    
         
Avg 849.63 848.63 1496.22 1494.66
         
  424.81   748.11  
       
         
         
         
         
         
         
         
         
         
         
         
         
         
         
         
         
         
         
         
         
         
         
         
         
         
         
         
         

 

Skip Da Shu
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mountkidd wrote:Skip,My

mountkidd wrote:

Skip,

My 3060ti runs with a PL 153W and the 3070 uses PL 180W. On both cards the mem clk is set to the max design speed 14000 MHz. The gpu clk floats within the design gpu-mem-PL table. Card pwr shows as the PL. 

On your linked hosts, card pwr is much lower than the PL. On the 3070, reduce the PL to 170W to allow the card more flexibility in its choice of gpu/mem clk rates and ensure that PowerMizer Settings/Preferred mode has ‘prefer max performance’ selected. 
 

On your 6600XT card power is idling. Corectrl has Performance Mode settings for both the cpu and gpu. Set both the High(est) possible. 

I don't agree with what setting PL down does but I wanna try a couple things on this 2 card box before I open my trap.

6600xt idle is 3w.  See 6600xt BRP WU times above.  Between 3070 and 3060ti but a bit closer to the 3070.

Skip

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Last one... a non-XT

Last one... a non-XT 6800  https://einsteinathome.org/host/13133566

I need to check some other type of WUs or projects as I'm having a hard time believing the RX6800 is doing these faster than my RTX 3080.

MS7C95-2 E@H @ 2x on 6800    
Date/time reported Run CPU
     
19 Oct 2023 22:30:02 UTC 716 155
19 Oct 2023 22:30:02 UTC 690 145
19 Oct 2023 22:40:57 UTC 705 150
19 Oct 2023 22:52:23 UTC 689 145
19 Oct 2023 22:52:23 UTC 689 144
19 Oct 2023 23:03:55 UTC 687 144
19 Oct 2023 23:03:55 UTC 690 144
19 Oct 2023 23:16:04 UTC 701 148
19 Oct 2023 23:16:04 UTC 694 149
19 Oct 2023 23:16:04 UTC 701 148
19 Oct 2023 23:16:04 UTC 690 143
19 Oct 2023 23:27:59 UTC 710 155
19 Oct 2023 23:27:59 UTC 682 145
19 Oct 2023 23:44:36 UTC 709 155
19 Oct 2023 23:44:36 UTC 695 150
19 Oct 2023 23:51:38 UTC 691 143
19 Oct 2023 23:51:38 UTC 692 143
     
Avg 695.94 147.41
     
  347.97  
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This would be a good time to

This would be a good time to try out the Petri  BRP7 special app run under the same conditions for comparison.

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Skip Da Shu
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mountkidd wrote: This would

mountkidd wrote:

This would be a good time to try out the Petri  BRP7 special app run under the same conditions for comparison.

It would.  I'll start reading up on that as soon as I finish getting this desktop set up.  Mobo went bad on it yesterday and just to booting up to BIOS this morning with a new (different brand and chipset, so new world) and once I got to the OS my Nvidia drivers were crapped out.  So starting from a re-install.  Don't have BOINC in yet.

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