BOINC now detects my 7900xt. And I'm surprised about the clock speeds tbh. I'm seeing 2.1GHz in Gaming, but it seems like the card actually has higher limits on compute jobs. Crunching WUs with 250-265W (pretty much the limit on that card) and 2.8-3.0GHz now. Radeontop shows 140% on shaderclock lol.
Around 5:30 min for BRP7 MeerKAT as far as the first WUs go. Had one Gamma-ray pulsar WU so far, ran within 2:33. I'm using only one simultaneous job right now. Will update and test things.
If you're not on OpenSUSE, I've seen Ubuntu and RHEL repos too.
Event Log states "AMD/ATI GPU1 (ignored by config). That's the iGPU. What config do I have to tweak to get it? I may finally have some use for that thing. Found it!
Running it for a day now. FGRP1 2:30 pretty much consistent performance. I've seen major improvements with BRP7 while running 2 WUs at the same time. Each finishes within 8:15ish., so a bit more than 4min per WU.
I believe that this statement is true for Windows and Linux machines. But OS X/MacOS on my macs won't run an NVIDIA card that is more recent than a GTX 1080Ti. Of course, OS X/MacOS doesn't yet support any AMD RDNA 3 GPUs. I can only hope that the new modular MacPro promised for later this year offers reasonable support for third-party GPUs. SMH.
Keith Myers wrote:
The one thing that you can count on with Nvidia cards is that the driver installation is an extremely simple process and they always work out of the box.
"I was born in a small town, and I live in a small town." - John Mellencamp
I believe that this statement is true for Windows and Linux machines. But OS X/MacOS on my macs won't run an NVIDIA card that is more recent than a GTX 1080Ti.
That's not because of NVidia or AMD not being able or willing to support the platform, quite the contrary. It's because Apple blocking 3rd party hardware. You are only allowed to if you pay the apple tax. Or buy a new system. Why buy new stuff if you can upgrade the old stuff? That's not profitable.
These are very different issues. Windows and Linux actually want new hardware support.
I didn't even realize how far Apple goes to exclude hardware not purchased from them until I sold an old GTX 970 to TimeLord04 at Seti and he told me he then had to ship it off to MacVidCards for them to flash an Apple authorized VBIOS into the card for it to even be recognized by MacOS.
I believe that this statement is true for Windows and Linux machines. But OS X/MacOS on my macs won't run an NVIDIA card that is more recent than a GTX 1080Ti.
That's not because of NVidia or AMD not being able or willing to support the platform, quite the contrary. It's because Apple blocking 3rd party hardware. You are only allowed to if you pay the apple tax. Or buy a new system. Why buy new stuff if you can upgrade the old stuff? That's not profitable.
These are very different issues. Windows and Linux actually want new hardware support.
I took the Apple installed harddrive out of my Cheese Grater I7 Mac and put an SSD drive in it and installed Linux and it ran faster!! Everything works like you think it should without any of the Apple limitations.
Keith, thanks for helping out TimeLord04. I have given him a couple of 2008 MacPro 3,1 units that I no longer had use for. I wonder if one of them ended up being the host for your GTX 970? Parenthetically, I have used both MacVidCards and MacVidCards Europe to flash NVIDIA and AMD GPUs to use in 2008 MacPro 3,1 and 2010 MacPro 5,1 boxes.
"I was born in a small town, and I live in a small town." - John Mellencamp
I took the Apple installed harddrive out of my Cheese Grater I7 Mac and put an SSD drive in it and installed Linux and it ran faster!! Everything works like you think it should without any of the Apple limitations.
Mikey, that is an interesting approach. What GPU are you able to run in that system? Later this summer I am going to retire a 2008 MacPro 3,1 and a 2010 MacPro 5,1 at work. That will give me an opportunity to experiment with Linux.
"I was born in a small town, and I live in a small town." - John Mellencamp
I wonder if the ocl command
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I wonder if the ocl command line for Nvidia would work on a Radeon card?
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BOINC now detects my 7900xt.
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BOINC now detects my 7900xt. And I'm surprised about the clock speeds tbh. I'm seeing 2.1GHz in Gaming, but it seems like the card actually has higher limits on compute jobs. Crunching WUs with 250-265W (pretty much the limit on that card) and 2.8-3.0GHz now. Radeontop shows 140% on shaderclock lol.
Around 5:30 min for BRP7 MeerKAT as far as the first WUs go. Had one Gamma-ray pulsar WU so far, ran within 2:33. I'm using only one simultaneous job right now. Will update and test things.
I just installed the rocm-opencl package from the AMD ROCm repo. https://repo.radeon.com/rocm/zyp/5.4.3/main/
If you're not on OpenSUSE, I've seen Ubuntu and RHEL repos too.
Event Log states "AMD/ATI GPU1 (ignored by config). That's the iGPU. What config do I have to tweak to get it? I may finally have some use for that thing.Found it!Running it for a day now. FGRP1 2:30 pretty much consistent performance. I've seen major improvements with BRP7 while running 2 WUs at the same time. Each finishes within 8:15ish., so a bit more than 4min per WU.
I believe that this statement
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I believe that this statement is true for Windows and Linux machines. But OS X/MacOS on my macs won't run an NVIDIA card that is more recent than a GTX 1080Ti. Of course, OS X/MacOS doesn't yet support any AMD RDNA 3 GPUs. I can only hope that the new modular MacPro promised for later this year offers reasonable support for third-party GPUs. SMH.
"I was born in a small town, and I live in a small town." - John Mellencamp
Only can blame yourself for
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Only can blame yourself for painting yourself into a corner with a closed ecosystem that Apple enforces.
Tigers_Dave wrote:I
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That's not because of NVidia or AMD not being able or willing to support the platform, quite the contrary. It's because Apple blocking 3rd party hardware. You are only allowed to if you pay the apple tax. Or buy a new system. Why buy new stuff if you can upgrade the old stuff? That's not profitable.
These are very different issues. Windows and Linux actually want new hardware support.
I didn't even realize how far
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I didn't even realize how far Apple goes to exclude hardware not purchased from them until I sold an old GTX 970 to TimeLord04 at Seti and he told me he then had to ship it off to MacVidCards for them to flash an Apple authorized VBIOS into the card for it to even be recognized by MacOS.
Exard3k wrote: Tigers_Dave
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I took the Apple installed harddrive out of my Cheese Grater I7 Mac and put an SSD drive in it and installed Linux and it ran faster!! Everything works like you think it should without any of the Apple limitations.
Keith, thanks for helping out
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Keith, thanks for helping out TimeLord04. I have given him a couple of 2008 MacPro 3,1 units that I no longer had use for. I wonder if one of them ended up being the host for your GTX 970? Parenthetically, I have used both MacVidCards and MacVidCards Europe to flash NVIDIA and AMD GPUs to use in 2008 MacPro 3,1 and 2010 MacPro 5,1 boxes.
"I was born in a small town, and I live in a small town." - John Mellencamp
Keith Myers wrote: Only can
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It's a thankless job, but someone has to do it. ;-)
"I was born in a small town, and I live in a small town." - John Mellencamp
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Mikey, that is an interesting approach. What GPU are you able to run in that system? Later this summer I am going to retire a 2008 MacPro 3,1 and a 2010 MacPro 5,1 at work. That will give me an opportunity to experiment with Linux.
"I was born in a small town, and I live in a small town." - John Mellencamp