DUAL 5090 FE RTX & DUAL EPYC 9684X

[venturi]

Benchmarks to follow, however here is the build, as I finally got another 5090 FE at a normal price


The build


2x 5090 RTX Founders Edition
2x AMD 9684X Epyc (192/384 cores) 2.2GB of L3 cache , Gigabyte MZ73-LM0 Dual socket motherboard, PCIE 5.0
1.5 TB RAM DDR5 ECC LRDIMMs 4800mhz 2050W digital power supply
4x Micron 9300 Max (15.4TB each, 60TB volume)) Sabrent Rocket 4 Plus (8TB). 2x Back up drives Micron 5300 (16TB)
Asus PA32UCG-K monitor, MS Data Center 2022 & 2025 & Ubuntu, Air cooled, cool temps, small case, ultra quiet operation
1x pound of flesh and blood as usual

some pics

Some EARLY benchmarks

Chernobylite has a built in benchmark that displays all the parameters used on the live result screen, it does not use DLSS so this is performance in the raw, max Ray Tracing and max visuals at 4K.

Single GPU

Dual GPU

Gravitymark High Score

GravityMark Leaderboard

GravityMark GPU Benchmark

gravitymark.tellusim.com

The workstation also has other capabilities, here is a file transfer read /write from a single drive to the built in array

Write speed:

I'll bench some more later

Have fun

 

[oxrufiioxo]

How I picture you when you boot up that beast.

 

[ir_cow]

Let me "barrow" that computer

 

[Tyler-98-W68]

So stupid request as im OCD for performance in BeamNG Drive.

It's absolutely crazy multithreaded, is that a game you might be able to test out?

 

[DemonicRyzen666]

edit :Nvr I see the 2,050 watt power supply.

 

[Selaya]

the silverstone hela 2050r pictured is a 2,000w psu, that should be good enough for everything on this build and then some

 

[venturi]

So stupid request as im OCD for performance in BeamNG Drive.

It's absolutely crazy multithreaded, is that a game you might be able to test out?

I’ll look it up, I’m not familiar with it

 

[Tyler-98-W68]

I’ll look it up, I’m not familiar with it

It's basically a game with crazy physics (very real) and it scales super good with lots of cores on a CPU, on my 285K and 5090 I can run 40 AI cars spawned in real time at about 60fps.....and that's on 24 cores, curious to know if a system like yours gets any benefit or maybe the individual cores don't have enough single thread performance to see an uplift

 

[DemonicRyzen666]

the silverstone hela 2050r pictured is a 2,000w psu, that should be good enough for everything on this build and then some

No it's not.
It's like 2,030 watts with everything including the only the 4 15.4gbs drives fully maxed out on the board.
I haven't included the 4 cpu fans & the other harddrives yet.
I like the GPU's are probably being were power limited during the Chernobylite benchmark somehow, or he might have higher clocks on the single card cause of less heat being pulled up toward the two cpu's to clock higher.

 

[Chomiq]

How did you manage to snag two FE's, aren't they limited to 1 per address?

Anyway, always great to see your build. Has the "all in" vibe that I just love and envy a little (mostly because I could never pull off open air rig with the dusty air we get here).

 

[Selaya]

imean technically allin would be 2x rtx b6000 pro but that'd like ... double the cost of the build so

 

[mb194dc]

Very nice build, enough power to do anything and more. What's the normal usage of it? Or just build because you enjoy it and you can?

Any preference between Ubuntu and Windows Server?

 

[venturi]

Very nice build, enough power to do anything and more. What's the normal usage of it? Or just build because you enjoy it and you can?

Any preference between Ubuntu and Windows Server?

It’s my personal PC, but unfortunately I take work home with me sometimes. It’s used for medical research, imaging, CNN.

It’s also used for photos, video editing, documents, email, surfing the web, level editing and some gaming (why not?).

In OS’es, so far, I prefer MS Data Center 2022 for gaming, and Ubuntu for hosting research (multi boot)

MS Server Center Server 2025 is still a work in progress -not as easy as 2922 to make it a workstation build

Ms Data Center Server 2022 gets significantly higher scores. / benchmarks than windows 11,
I also can control updates, no ads, no telemetry, etc

 

[venturi]

imean technically allin would be 2x rtx b6000 pro but that'd like ... double the cost of the build so

True, and you’re right…. can I borrow your credit card?

… I waited till last week to get a reasonably priced 5090.

 

[Gold Leader]

That is a nice s core there but not really a great performance increase over dual RTX 4090's but that was to be expected, but hey every gain is worth it, regarding the projects you do with your system, for gaming it's not really an upgrade seeing how CyberPunk 2077 went from 20 fps to 27 fps with raw RT/PT and no DLSS fram gen and what ever it is called.

But as upgrading the mainboard goes I recommend waiting for ZEN6 or maybe ZEN7 based EPYC CPU's these will give you much greater headroom, things such as mass ram support, you'll get 16 DDR5 or DDR6 channels per CPU and 256 cores per socket or more as CPU architecture goes forward.

both Gigabyte & Supermicro are going to make solid Dual socket boards for the E-ATX format standard for these CPU series, so many good things will be upcoming, once the products exist I'd happily help you configure a beast like you have now again, it was fun helping you find the right mainboard for this build plus parts to go with it, I miss doing that at 2CPU, as I have helped others as well, are Peter Tong & SadTropher around too by any chance? I miss those two guys as I miss all the others as well.

Even I tried looking in to ServeTheHome, but it's nothing close to what we had with HEMI & Hooz and the rest of the 2CPU gang, good to see you are still building 2CPU builds, I still have my old 2CPU.com Crew mug from our old place, just as memorial to it:


It used the 2CPU.com banner from 2006 - 2012:

Also I have kept pics of the other logo's from 2CPU.com as well like these two:

The frist look of 2CPU.com banner from 1999 - 2006:

And the last look of the 2CPU.com banner from 2012 - 2020:

But hey it seems this place is pretty decent, we gotta do with what we have i the end, I tried contacting Hooz but he didn't respond yet, HI & I still talk every now and then.
Just wish there was a way to get a hold of the rest of the 2CPU members.

But hey man keep this thread up to date on any changes or upgrades , or even iprovements as testing goes, always nice tos ee you still making these full spec enthousiast level systems as you have always done over the past 20+ years, for those that don't know JayVenturi , he and I go back since 200, where we met at the 2CPU forums, he helped me a lot regarding server grade hardware and how to make them more useful when playing games, Supermicro was always my go to brand for mainboards, it was a shame that IWill closed doors in 2007 though, I always saw them as a better alternative that TYAN but in many ways just as good as a good Supermicro, Iwill was greatly missed afterwards, gladly Gigabyte took up the pace and is now giving very good alternatives over Supermicro as well.

But yea man glad to see you're still active

The Single & Dual GPU tests in Chernobylite show a very interesting result, note how the min fps cascades once Dual GPU is used, could this be the latency that is caused by using two GPU's maybe?
The max and average FPS scores are almost doubles, yet having the min fps halved, I still think a single GPU in that case will givea much smoother run time, because the higehr the min fps the smoother a game will eventually run by eliminating micros tutters.

I wonder if there is a way to fix that, could it be a driver issue maybe, I wonder.

 

[venturi]

That is a nice s core there but not really a great performance increase over dual RTX 4090's but that was to be expected, but hey every gain is worth it, regarding the projects you do with your system, for gaming it's not really an upgrade seeing how CyberPunk 2077 went from 20 fps to 27 fps with raw RT/PT and no DLSS fram gen and what ever it is called.

But as upgrading the mainboard goes I recommend waiting for ZEN6 or maybe ZEN7 based EPYC CPU's these will give you much greater headroom, things such as mass ram support, you'll get 16 DDR5 or DDR6 channels per CPU and 256 cores per socket or more as CPU architecture goes forward.

both Gigabyte & Supermicro are going to make solid Dual socket boards for the E-ATX format standard for these CPU series, so many good things will be upcoming, once the products exist I'd happily help you configure a beast like you have now again, it was fun helping you find the right mainboard for this build plus parts to go with it, I miss doing that at 2CPU, as I have helped others as well, are Peter Tong & SadTropher around too by any chance? I miss those two guys as I miss all the others as well.

Even I tried looking in to ServeTheHome, but it's nothing close to what we had with HEMI & Hooz and the rest of the 2CPU gang, good to see you are still building 2CPU builds, I still have my old 2CPU.com Crew mug from our old place, just as memorial to it:


It used the 2CPU.com logo from 2006 - 2012:

Also I have kept pics of the other logo's from 2CPU.com as well like these two:

The frist look of 2CPU.com banner from 1999 - 2006:

And the last look of the 2CPU.com banner from 2012 - 2020:

But hey it seems this place is pretty decent, we gotta do with what we have i the end, I tried contacting Hooz but he didn't respond yet, HI & I still talk every now and then.
Just wish there was a way to get a hold of the rest of the 2CPU members.

But hey man keep this thread up to date on any changes or upgrades , or even iprovements as testing goes, always nice tos ee you still making these full spec enthousiast level systems as you have always done over the past 20+ years, for those that don't know JayVenturi , he and I go back since 200, where we met at the 2CPU forums, he helped me a lot regarding server grade hardware and how to make them more useful when playing games, Supermicro was always my go to brand for mainboards, it was a shame that IWill closed doors in 2007 though, I always saw them as a better alternative that TYAN but in many ways just as good as a good Supermicro, Iwill was greatly missed afterwards, gladly Gigabyte took up the pace and is now giving very good alternatives over Supermicro as well.

But yea man glad to see you're still active

You are absolutely correct. the 5090s are not much of an improvement in gaming (raw, no DLSS) over the 4090s. I got more bang for the buck out of them on my algorithms (primary purpose) than gaming due to some increase is speed and the 32gb of ram each (64 pool)

In fact, if you remove DLSS gimmicks from the picture, the 5xxx is really not much of a new product. With that said, I think a lot of folks don't understand DLSS and think its an improvement nor realizing the whole things revolves around reducing screen resolution. to gain frames. This is separate from frame generation which is another philosophy....

...add on a worst ever product launch, product issues, software issues, driver issues, build quality issues, supply chain issues, scalping, bots, etc etc

so yes, you're right, very right


and I really miss NvNews and 2Cpu.com

 

[Gold Leader]

NvNews yea that takes me along way back, I also miss the EVGA forums and SLI Zone , I am still thankful to RedSun's GTX 295 Red Edition Quad SLI idea, that got me to do the Dual Quad Core OpteronDP 2380 C2 and the two EVGA GTX 295 Red Editions back in 2009, in 2010 I upgraded the CPUs to Dual Six-Core AMD OpteronDP 2435 D0 Istanbul CPU's good for 12 cores @ 2.6Ghz this was an overall 71% performance increase when running multiple game servers alongside playing games and performing live videos during game play at 60fps, was for my Minecraft server & later in 2014 the Primal Carnage 1.3 Server back in the day, Quad SLI was so nice if you knew how to configure it, my reason to use the H8DAE-2 was so that each of Dual chip card was fed by 1 Quad /Hex Core CPU each with it's theri own Dual channel memory controller which is directly connecte d to the main PCI-E slot the salve CPU did the other PCI-E x16 slot, this way there was a uch better balanced overall12 cores and all four 240 Tesla CUDA Core GPU's 4x NVDIA GT200-400-B1's that being, this was knowledge you passed oevr to me Jay after you did the DUal OpteronDP 2224 Socket F build with the two 7950 GX2's I think this was the build and 16GB NUMA Dual Channel DDR2-667, yea that was a while ago hey, before this you ran a2Core Dual OpteronDP 290 E6 ina TYAN board the TYAN Thunder K8WE with 2x PCI-E 1..0 x16 slots for 2-Way & Quad SLI setups, not sure what cards you had in here 2x 6800 Ultra I think it was the 512MB models, it was always maxed out and ram was 16GB NUMA Dual Channel DDR-400 ECC Reg, something like this.

Everyone in the forum had a Duallie, everyone was doing these cool builds not jsut us, that is what I rememebr and miss mostly,we all had the same interest and passion, very hard to find anywhere else.

The bad news is that the slave card died due to one f it's NF200 chips burning out this also caused a power arch to kill the NF200 on the mainboard as well, the primary GTX 295 RE did survive, sadly to get this system working again I will need a new Supermicro H8DA8-2 or H8-DAE-2 either is fine and a pair of EVGA GTX 590 Classified Editions just to add some Fermi rendering power in there that with a SeaSonic 1250 Watt Digital PSU I think it should be fine, it's finding the parts , yea that is always a challenge, new parts are unaffordable for me but projects like this are quite doable even it can take me years.
But the good news since being a Supermicro board it still works stable when I use a main graphics card it currently has a Sapphire Nitro+ R9 Fury in it, it's good for now but yea my goal is to rebuild my Quad SLI dream machine two GTX 295 Red Editiosn would be the cooelst thing to reobtain buta pair of EVGA GTX 590 Classifieds will do it good justice as well and they are easier to find somehow.

Here that Dual 2435 with the Quad SLI EVGA GTX 295 Red Edition setup during it's glory days, pics were taken in 2012, or somewhere around there, this build may ring some bells too
Also I remember doing a review of this system at 2CPU, NVIDIA's SLI Zone Forums and EVGA of course:

Blue-Leader SMP 2009

2x Six-Core AMD OpteronDP 2435 D0 Istanbul HT 3.0 CPU's @ 12x 2.6Ghz
2x ASUS Triton 70's Air coolers, these still work btw.
Supermicro H8DAE-2 NVIDIA NForce 3600 Pro, MCP 550 Pro & IO55
16GB NUMA Dual Channel DDR2-800 HP/Kingston Server Ram ECC. Reg. (is now 32GB)
Supermicro SIM LP-B IPMI 2.0 16MB Card Rev.3.01 0907
2x EVGA GeForce GTX 295 Red Edition Golden Sample PCI-E 1792MB 896Bit GDDR3 in Quad SLI
Realtek ALC883 7.1 OnBoard HD Audio
1x Intel 320 SSD 120GB/64MB Cache Boot Disk [Upgrade on The Way]
Plextor PX-820A Dual Layer DVD Re-Writer 12x/8x UATA-133
4x Western Digital 500GB/32MB Cache Raid Edition3 24/7 Series in RAID 0 1.81TB Storage Disk
2x Broadcom 1000 MBit Ethernet RJ45 Lan Jacks
Antec True Power Quatto 1000 Watt EPS12V + 2.3V
Lian Li PC-A7010 Black Server Case
Lian Li W-75BP Side Window Panel
Hewlett Packard ZR24w 24" 16:10 Aspect Ratio HS-IPS Panel
Native Reso of 1920 x 1200 x32 @ 60 Hertz

Microsoft Windows 7 Professional x64 UK + Service Pack 01
NVIDIA ForceWare 331.82 WHQL for Win7 Pro x64.




And here the drivers being NVIDIA ForceWare 331.82 WHQL the last good and stable drivers for Quad SLI with 9800 GX2 - GTX 590:


Here all the Full Scene Anti Aliasing settings and the BarsWF CUDA x64 performance, this program I ran from 2008 to 2016 with NVIDIA GPU's it uses their full CUDA rendering capabillities to give the user the full raw performance of the CUDA cores per generation, you could see some nice leaps in performance per new generation of CUDA based GPU's.



Also how fast is that system of your with video rendering Jay?
I also guess it depends what you use, Blender or 3D Studio Max or Maya, would be nice to see some test results of those.