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Message 1905508 - Posted: 8 Dec 2017, 7:19:02 UTC

I wonder what sort of performance this sucker would give?
GTX 1080Ti CUDA Cores 3584
Titan Xp CUDA Cores 3840
Titan V CUDA Cores 5120

For $3,000US you'd want it to kiss you good night & tuck you in as well as crunch like nothing else...
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Message 1905513 - Posted: 8 Dec 2017, 7:32:15 UTC

It must be time for another update. ;-)

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Message 1905934 - Posted: 9 Dec 2017, 14:46:44 UTC

After all the server problems last week I didn't want to put strain on them running my script to crawl through the database. Maybe if they stay up this week I'll try again.
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Message 1909613 - Posted: 30 Dec 2017, 17:15:15 UTC

New scan shows the 1070 Ti's doing a tiny bit more work than regular 1070's but probably use more power than it's worth.

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Message 1909624 - Posted: 30 Dec 2017, 18:03:25 UTC

I would say that the 1070 Ti isn't any more power hungry than the 1070. Running both at full BOINC load and these are the nvidia-smi outputs.

GTX 1070Ti

keith@Darksider:~$ nvidia-smi
Sat Dec 30 09:53:01 2017       
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 384.98                 Driver Version: 384.98                    |
|-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| GPU  Name        Persistence-M| Bus-Id        Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan  Temp  Perf  Pwr:Usage/Cap|         Memory-Usage | GPU-Util  Compute M. |
|===============================+======================+======================|
|   0  GeForce GTX 107...  On   | 00000000:03:00.0 Off |                  N/A |
|100%   48C    P2   119W / 180W |   2578MiB /  8114MiB |     95%      Default |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
|   1  GeForce GTX 107...  On   | 00000000:06:00.0  On |                  N/A |
|100%   62C    P2   110W / 180W |   2897MiB /  8110MiB |     99%      Default |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
|   2  GeForce GTX 107...  On   | 00000000:07:00.0 Off |                  N/A |
|100%   66C    P2   124W / 180W |   2580MiB /  8114MiB |     98%      Default |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+


And this the GTX 1070

C:\Program Files\NVIDIA Corporation\NVSMI>nvidia-smi
Sat Dec 30 09:54:36 2017
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 384.94                 Driver Version: 384.94                    |
|-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| GPU  Name            TCC/WDDM | Bus-Id        Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan  Temp  Perf  Pwr:Usage/Cap|         Memory-Usage | GPU-Util  Compute M. |
|===============================+======================+======================|
|   0  GeForce GTX 1070   WDDM  | 00000000:01:00.0  On |                  N/A |
|100%   70C    P2   115W / 166W |   2449MiB /  8192MiB |     92%      Default |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
|   1  GeForce GTX 1070   WDDM  | 00000000:06:00.0 Off |                  N/A |
| 84%   64C    P2   108W / 166W |   2366MiB /  8192MiB |     94%      Default |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
|   2  GeForce GTX 970    WDDM  | 00000000:07:00.0 Off |                  N/A |
|100%   82C    P2   138W / 187W |   1281MiB /  4096MiB |     88%      Default |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+


As you can see on the Windows machine, the old GTX 970 is more power hungry than the GTX 1070.
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Message 1909711 - Posted: 31 Dec 2017, 0:22:42 UTC

Average of Median 60% Credit/Hour from my last run:

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070: 908.8006478
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti: 941.2174884

So approximately 3.6% more credit from a wide sampling of computers and tasks.

From your data below, average power:

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070: 111.5 W
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti: 117.7 W

So approximately 5.6% more power in this specific case.

I noticed your 1070's were rated for 166W not the stock 150W -- so maybe clocked a bit higher and drawing a bit more power too?
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Message 1909717 - Posted: 31 Dec 2017, 1:07:51 UTC - in response to Message 1909711.  

I wonder how badly you think mismatched cards in a system affect your numbers.
For instance my 4x1070 computer is actually a 1070/980/1060/1060.
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Message 1909739 - Posted: 31 Dec 2017, 2:38:34 UTC - in response to Message 1909711.  

Average of Median 60% Credit/Hour from my last run:

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070: 908.8006478
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti: 941.2174884

So approximately 3.6% more credit from a wide sampling of computers and tasks.

From your data below, average power:

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070: 111.5 W
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti: 117.7 W

So approximately 5.6% more power in this specific case.

I noticed your 1070's were rated for 166W not the stock 150W -- so maybe clocked a bit higher and drawing a bit more power too?

No, not overclocked in the traditional sense. But use an offset in P2 state to get them back to where they should be running in P0 state which would be at their normal gaming mode P0 state spec.
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Message 1909892 - Posted: 31 Dec 2017, 21:09:10 UTC - in response to Message 1909717.  

I wonder how badly you think mismatched cards in a system affect your numbers.
For instance my 4x1070 computer is actually a 1070/980/1060/1060.

The script omits all multi-GPU systems for exactly this reason.
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Message 1909995 - Posted: 1 Jan 2018, 9:31:21 UTC - in response to Message 1905513.  

It must be time for another update. ;-)

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. . Does that mean you are going to replace the 1060/3 cards? :)

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Message 1932562 - Posted: 28 Apr 2018, 22:51:58 UTC

New thread because my old ones keep getting locked. Feel free to unlock/merge if prefer. New this scan: Radeon Pro Vega 56's coming in barely faster than a GTX 1060 (I'm guessing these are in iMacs?)

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Message 1932563 - Posted: 28 Apr 2018, 22:58:25 UTC

Thanx for your efforts.
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Message 1932568 - Posted: 28 Apr 2018, 23:58:52 UTC - in response to Message 1932563.  
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Thanx for your efforts.

Seconded.
Motion carried.


Interesting to see the GTX 750Ti, after all this time, still up near the top of the pack for Credit/W-Hr.
If Petri's TitanV's performance & power usage is anything to go by, consumer Volta cards might finally push the GTX 750Ti down the list, almost 4 years later.
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Message 1932585 - Posted: 29 Apr 2018, 2:20:52 UTC

Is possible to run the script to compare the GPU`s running on Linux?
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Message 1936333 - Posted: 19 May 2018, 22:41:56 UTC - in response to Message 1905508.  

I wonder what sort of performance this sucker would give?
GTX 1080Ti CUDA Cores 3584
Titan Xp CUDA Cores 3840
Titan V CUDA Cores 5120

For $3,000US you'd want it to kiss you good night & tuck you in as well as crunch like nothing else...


I have Compared the TITAN V to a GTX 1080. The Titan is 92 % (shorties) - 140 % (guppi & vlar) faster.
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Message 1936633 - Posted: 22 May 2018, 6:56:16 UTC - in response to Message 1932562.  

New thread because my old ones keep getting locked. Feel free to unlock/merge if prefer. New this scan: Radeon Pro Vega 56's coming in barely faster than a GTX 1060 (I'm guessing these are in iMacs?)



Thanks for your work!

Could you consider to put some info about number of hosts of particular type averaged for single line of graph, please.
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Message 1937251 - Posted: 26 May 2018, 13:04:33 UTC - in response to Message 1936633.  

The thresholds I'm using are at least 10 unique host IDs and at least 25 work units to qualify for each; my results can be combined if I do another scan the next week but I periodically reset to avoid older results with perhaps outdated drivers.

The last scan I posted was a single snapshot and the host counts are here:



Sorry for the image size -- I didn't see how to post tables so I did a hack job of a high-dpi copy from Excel.
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Message 1937260 - Posted: 26 May 2018, 14:02:33 UTC - in response to Message 1937251.  

Shaggie, since you're taking requests...
Could you please give Raistmer a rough estimate of how many jigowatts we'd be saving at Seti if he were to improve app efficiency by 10%?
He says he is in need of "motivation" so...
:P

(I promise, I am teasing in the friendliest ways possible. Please LOL!)
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Message 1937318 - Posted: 26 May 2018, 21:39:59 UTC - in response to Message 1937260.  
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@Shaggie76
Thanks for data

@ iwazaru
I never said that need additional motivation besides project's goal.
All I said in another thread is that CreditScrew discourages optimization. It does. But who cares? ;)
And, just to be precise, your proposal for additioanl motivation is wrong one.
If app performance will be increased GPU power consumption will increase too. We will do more work per hour... but will consume more energy also.
So, greenpeace will be disappointed :P
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Message 1937326 - Posted: 26 May 2018, 23:14:02 UTC - in response to Message 1937318.  

I hope you know I was completely kidding :)
But damn, I can't believe I forgot power usually goes up with optimizations :P

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