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TPU's F@H Team

$625 later (bought a 10ft DP cable with it for my ASUS VG248QE) and this Zotac GTX 980 AMP! Extreme Edition is just impressive. Sorry AMD, but the GTX 970/980 unfortunately make Hawaii look like AMD FX vs. Intel Haswell. Also folding at 52c on the 980 at "stock" 1417MHz boost vs 80c on the 1060MHz 290 has left my room and my computer quite a bit cooler too.

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And Valley vs. my 1060MHz R9 290 Windforce:

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Jstn, do you have a Kill-o-watt to check the power draw for that monster card?
 
A few post back I reported a 145 W draw on a OC'ed 970 (270 W total including WCG). This GPU does 240k PPD (24 hour real average) when served the right WU's. The 980 could be better W/PPD wise.
 
The Radeon 7950 I'm running is down at stock clocks, so my PPD is down. :(

I've had stability issues a fair bit lately, so everything is in super stable mode. :S
 
agent00skid said:
The Radeon 7950 I'm running is down at stock clocks, so my PPD is down. :(

I've had stability issues a fair bit lately, so everything is in super stable mode. :S
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You killed it :eek: :). They don't make them as they used to. I'm sure that my old MSI 260 will still do my old OC.
 
BUCK NASTY said:
Jstn, do you have a Kill-o-watt to check the power draw for that monster card?
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I shall bring mine home, been wanting to see how much energy this 5820K has been dissipating as well. I'm getting 354K estimated @ 1497MHz stock volts now (pretty much where the card tops out, can do 1520 with +12mV and crashes at 1540 with +25mV.
 
Jstn7477 said:
I shall bring mine home, been wanting to see how much energy this 5820K has been dissipating as well. I'm getting 354K estimated @ 1497MHz stock volts now (pretty much where the card tops out, can do 1520 with +12mV and crashes at 1540 with +25mV.
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With +100K PPD I'm sure that a 980 will outperform a 970 w/PPD but I'm too interested in the numbers. Normal running (including WCG in your case) and with the added GPU folding. Some might like to see 0% CPU load, 0% GPU load and 100% GPU (FAH load).
 
Back home. The re-started rig hosting my 970 did not start FAHControl...!? Well it is running now but what happened to the nice 9201s? Well 68k PPD is better then zero. 7770 and 7970 is back up as well. The 7770 will be replaced by my 280X in a 1.3 days from now. It is record warm in Denmark so the second 7970 is collecting dust.
 
mstenholm said:
With +100K PPD I'm sure that a 980 will outperform a 970 w/PPD but I'm too interested in the numbers. Normal running (including WCG in your case) and with the added GPU folding. Some might like to see 0% CPU load, 0% GPU load and 100% GPU (FAH load).
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5820K @ 4.25GHz/1.25V locked vcore/no turbo boost/speedstep enabled and 3.5GHz/1.32V uncore
GTX 980 BIOS modded @ 1493MHz/1900MHz 1.175v vcore and 215W/240W boost power limits (I may need to bump the voltage back to 1.187v, default was 1.200v)
1x Seagate 2TB

Off: 5.6W
Idle: 120-130w
CPU on WCG (set to 12 threads for this): 270W
CPU on WCG (set to 10 threads for this): 260W (lol)
10 threads CPU + GPU folding a 7626 (highest wattage F@H units seem to be the core 15 ones, 42% TDP, 87.5K PPD estimated): 420w (so 160W)

Core 17 WUs seem to hang around 32% TDP and Guild Wars 2/UNIGINE Valley seem to lurk around 50-54% TDP in GPU-Z. So, based on a rough guesstimation of 40w per 10% TDP limit, I'm putting Core 17's around 120-140w and gaming around 200W for ~1.5GHz GPU.
 
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Jstn7477 said:
5820K @ 4.25GHz/1.25V locked vcore/no turbo boost/speedstep enabled and 3.5GHz/1.32V uncore
GTX 980 BIOS modded @ 1493MHz/1900MHz 1.175v vcore and 215W/240W boost power limits (I may need to bump the voltage back to 1.187v, default was 1.200v)
1x Seagate 2TB

Off: 5.6W
Idle: 120-130w
CPU on WCG (set to 12 threads for this): 270W
CPU on WCG (set to 10 threads for this): 260W (lol)
10 threads CPU + GPU folding a 7626 (highest wattage F@H units seem to be the core 15 ones, 42% TDP, 87.5K PPD estimated): 420w (so 160W)

Core 17 WUs seem to hang around 32% TDP and Guild Wars 2/UNIGINE Valley seem to lurk around 50-54% TDP in GPU-Z. So, based on a rough guesstimation of 40w per 10% TDP limit, I'm putting Core 17's around 120-140w and gaming around 200W for ~1.5GHz GPU.
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Some copy and past and a similar job (7622)
W3670 @ 4.00 GHz/1.296v (water cooled)
GTX data: 1390MHz/1750MHz 1.20v, 110 % power limit (MSI tool)

CPU on WCG (set to 12 threads for this): 255W
CPU on WCG (set to 11 threads for this): 250W
11 threads CPU + GPU folding a 7622 ( 78% TDP, 72k PPD estimated): 404W (so 154W)
 
Update to previous post (to many information there already)

All settings the same but with a 9201: Combine draw is now 373 W so applying the same math (373 - 250) a GTX 970 draws 123 W for in my case 242-245k PPD.

A more modern platform sips 60 W without any GPUs installed. Three 970 could do +730k PPD for around 3*(123+10)+60 = 459 W. Now I wish I knew how to tag Buck. There will be an edit to this post.

58% TPD, 1403 GHz, 1.218 V and the GPU load has gone down from 99 to 89 %.
 
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The GTX 980 draws less than 10 watts more than the GTX 970 but yet gets 80,000+ more PPD? Am I seeing that correctly?
So.... what's the best GPU for PPD/watt/dollar? (P9201)
970: 240KPPD/125watt/$330=1920PPD/watt=5.82PPD/watt/$ (yes, I know how wrong that is mathematically:laugh:)
980: 330KPPD/130watt/$550=2538PPD/watt=4.62PPD/watt/$
Basically boils down to how long will it take to make up the $220 difference in electrical costs.
For whatever:
750 Ti: (having a hard time finding a number to use, see results from 50K-80KPPD. Going with info that I have from @NastyHabits ) 50KPPD/41watts/$150=1220PPD/watt=8.13PPD/watt/$
(OR) @james888 info: 70KPPD/50watts/$150=1400PPD/watt=9.33PPD/watt/$
 
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thebluebumblebee said:
The GTX 980 draws less than 10 watts more than the GTX 970 but yet gets 80,000+ more PPD? Am I seeing that correctly?
So.... what's the best GPU for PPD/watt/dollar? (P9201)
970: 240KPPD/125watt/$330=1920PPD/watt=5.82PPD/watt/$ (yes, I know how wrong that is mathematically:laugh:)
980: 330KPPD/130watt/$550=2538PPD/watt=4.62PPD/watt/$
Basically boils down to how long will it take to make up the $220 difference in electrical costs.
For whatever:
750 Ti: (having a hard time finding a number to use, see results from 50K-80KPPD. Going with info that I have from @NastyHabits ) 50KPPD/41watts/$150=1220PPD/watt=8.13PPD/watt/$
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If using core 17 wu's I tend to get about 70k ppd and use 50w. I am also as overclocked as I can be stable too. Speaking of which, I need to start folding again. The october challenge is over.
 
On a 9201 with my GTX 980 at 1405/1975/1.125V, I am getting 325K PPD at 29% TDP. System wattage is currently 372W, so 112W for the card. A 7622 was getting 86K PPD early this morning at 405W wall, so 145W card.
 
That is the thing with maxwell, at least for now. It is core roulette with core 17 and core 15 wu's.
 
james888 said:
That is the thing with maxwell, at least for now. It is core roulette with core 17 and core 15 wu's.
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I think that might be why @mx500torid was trying to get Folding working under Linux. It eliminates the core_15's!
 
thebluebumblebee said:
I think that might be why @mx500torid was trying to get Folding working under Linux. It eliminates the core_15's!
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Really? I might have to consider doing just that. Right now my main folder is on windows 10...
 
Indeed, I might run Linux most of the time on this desktop once I get the card where I want it to be.
 
thebluebumblebee said:
I think that might be why @mx500torid was trying to get Folding working under Linux. It eliminates the core_15's!
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LOL I didnt have a clue there were no core 15s on Linux. Found out why my Linux install didnt work the file was corrupted so gotta make another disc and burn it slow. Thx for trying to make me seem smarter than I am. :roll:
 
thebluebumblebee said:
Yep. The downside is that if there aren't any core_17's, you won't get any work.

That's what happened with my first attempt with an old 2GB flash drive. Got a new 16GB and no problem.
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I think I would get more total points by having core 17 wu's more consistently than having consistent work. Dual booting isn't that hard either. I think I will be going to linux on that machine soon enough.
 
Sold a bunch of stuff so my numbers are gonna be way down for awhile. Looking for some new stuff. Not getting rid of my 290x I love that card never crashes low temps and solid 240 to 260k. Runs cooler that my GTX 780 175k ppd. Still have the 7950s 120k to 130k. Hope to be back up soon.
 
970's or 980's?:laugh:
 
too rich for me be nice . Maybe when they come down a bit.
 
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