Best Cost-Efficient GPU for Einstein?

Forums › Cruncher's Corner

ravenigma
ravenigma
Joined: 20 Aug 10
Posts: 69
Credit: 80558946
RAC: 199
17 Feb 2017 2:29:28 UTC
Topic 205505
(moderation:
    )

    I'm thinking about picking up another GPU or two, but I'm looking for something that will give me the most "bang for the buck" so to speak. I know the king used to be the GTX 750Ti, but now that card is several years old now. I'm wondering what card released in the last two years or so performs very well on the new GPU tasks here at Einstein and also is efficient in terms of performance/watt as well as performance/cost.

    Thanks for any advice. 

    Keith Myers
    Keith Myers
    Joined: 11 Feb 11
    Posts: 4964
    Credit: 18748633292
    RAC: 7076144

    A guy over at SETI has

    17 Feb 2017 6:58:52 UTC
    Message 155517
    (moderation:
      )

      A guy over at SETI has compiled a nice graph showing the relative compute performance of AMD and Nvidia GPU over the last several generations.  I'm sure the SETI performance pretty closely matches the Einstein GPU performance Have a look.

      GPU Performance

      I think the consensus is that the GTX 1060 is one of the best "bang for the buck" choices.

       

      chester
      chester
      Joined: 15 Jun 10
      Posts: 15
      Credit: 506261798
      RAC: 0

      Keith Myers wrote:I think the

      17 Feb 2017 9:27:08 UTC
      Message 155520 in response to message 155517
      (moderation:
        )

        Keith Myers wrote:
        I think the consensus is that the GTX 1060 is one of the best "bang for the buck" choices.

        AMD RX 480 should be better for the same price: GTX 1060 vs RX 480 comparison - rising market share and popularity confirms this. Overall benchmarks show that RX 480 is the most valuable of all cards. AFAIK miners also mostly buy RX 470/480 currently - the most raw computing power "for the buck".

        Here i'm asking about switching my R9 290 to newer gen cards, no one replied yet. The thread was about concurrent tasks are unavailable in windows with current drivers, so recommendation is to switch to linux, which also gives ~10% performance boost.

         

        Matt_145 wrote:
        I'm thinking about picking up another GPU or two

        You're currently running GTX 1080 with 900 sec/task, how many concurrent tasks does it run? The same time as for RX 480, 2x tasks.

        tullio
        tullio
        Joined: 22 Jan 05
        Posts: 2118
        Credit: 61407735
        RAC: 0

        I am running Einstein@home

        17 Feb 2017 14:26:14 UTC
        Message 155530
        (moderation:
          )

          I am running Einstein@home GPU tasks on my Windows 10 PC with A10-6700 CPU and a Palit GTX 1050 Ti card.  I noticed the latest Einstein@home GPU tasks running as opencl-Beta-nvidia and then opencl1K-nvidia. Since I am not a GPU expert I would like someone to explain the difference. On my Linux box with Opteron 1210 CPU I am using a GTX 750 board to run Seti Beta GPU tasks but I have not received any Einstein@home GPU task.

          Tullio

          Richie
          Richie
          Joined: 7 Mar 14
          Posts: 656
          Credit: 1702989778
          RAC: 0

          tullio wrote:I am running

          17 Feb 2017 15:13:27 UTC
          Message 155531 in response to message 155530
          (moderation:
            )

            tullio wrote:

            I am running Einstein@home GPU tasks on my Windows 10 PC with A10-6700 CPU and a Palit GTX 1050 Ti card.  I noticed the latest Einstein@home GPU tasks running as opencl-Beta-nvidia and then opencl1K-nvidia. Since I am not a GPU expert I would like someone to explain the difference. On my Linux box with Opteron 1210 CPU I am using a GTX 750 board to run Seti Beta GPU tasks but I have not received any Einstein@home GPU task.

            Tullio

            I believe the server isn't delivering any Beta versions at the moment. Yesterday there were Beta v1.20's but them are propably regular 1K's today. https://einsteinathome.org/apps.php I think it's the same. Beta versions have recently been promoted to non-Beta after the Beta app has been seen to behave properly enough.

            Your GTX 750 doesn't have enough memory to run the 1.20 '1K' version:

            [version] Checking plan class 'FGRPopencl1K-nvidia'
[version] parsed project prefs setting 'gpu_util_fgrp': 1.000000
[version] OpenCL GPU RAM required min: 1048576000.000000, supplied: 1021444096

            I'm not sure if this would help, but you could try if changing the "Run test applications" setting in the project preferences made a difference.
            DanNeely
            DanNeely
            Joined: 4 Sep 05
            Posts: 1364
            Credit: 3562358667
            RAC: 0

            the current FGRPB GPU tasks

            17 Feb 2017 15:14:09 UTC
            Message 155532
            (moderation:
              )

              the current FGRPB GPU tasks aren't (weren't?) playing nicely with AMD 4xx cards.  Single tasks don't max out the GPU (on any platform); normally that just means run 2 at a time, but I've seen a number of reports of 4xx cards running far slower with 2 Fermi tasks than with 1.

              tullio
              tullio
              Joined: 22 Jan 05
              Posts: 2118
              Credit: 61407735
              RAC: 0

              OK, thanks Richie. I shall

              17 Feb 2017 18:41:31 UTC
              Message 155537 in response to message 155531
              (moderation:
                )

                OK, thanks Richie. I shall run Einstein@home GPU tasks on the GTX 1050 with its 4 GB Ram and SETI@home GPU tasks on the GTX 750.

                Tullio

                Ace Casino
                Ace Casino
                Joined: 25 Feb 05
                Posts: 36
                Credit: 1470808249
                RAC: 853750

                I have 4 computers running 4

                18 Feb 2017 15:32:35 UTC
                Message 155569
                (moderation:
                  )

                  I have 4 computers running 4 different GPU's:

                  GTX 750ti

                  GTX 950

                  GTX 960

                  GTX 970

                  Check out the times and RAC if that helps you at all.

                  Happy Crunching

                  chester
                  chester
                  Joined: 15 Jun 10
                  Posts: 15
                  Credit: 506261798
                  RAC: 0

                  Ace Casino wrote:I have 4

                  18 Feb 2017 16:08:05 UTC
                  Message 155572 in response to message 155569
                  (moderation:
                    )

                    Ace Casino wrote:

                    I have 4 computers running 4 different GPU's:

                    GTX 750ti

                    GTX 950

                    GTX 960

                    GTX 970

                    Check out the times and RAC if that helps you at all.

                    Happy Crunching

                    They're obsolete, better look at these setups: https://einsteinathome.org/account/107642/computers. As you can see, AMD RX 480 yields > 600k/day currently, compare with nVidia GTX 1070's or your card's performance.

                    ravenigma
                    ravenigma
                    Joined: 20 Aug 10
                    Posts: 69
                    Credit: 80558946
                    RAC: 199

                    DanNeely wrote:the current

                    18 Feb 2017 16:35:28 UTC
                    Message 155574
                    (moderation:
                      )

                      DanNeely wrote:
                      the current FGRPB GPU tasks aren't (weren't?) playing nicely with AMD 4xx cards.  Single tasks don't max out the GPU (on any platform); normally that just means run 2 at a time, but I've seen a number of reports of 4xx cards running far slower with 2 Fermi tasks than with 1.


                       
                      Chester wrote:
                      They're obsolete, better look at these setups: https://einsteinathome.org/account/107642/computers. As you can see, AMD RX 480 yields > 600k/day currently, compare with nVidia GTX 1070's or your card's performance.


                       


                      Thanks for the info and advice everyone. I was thinking either a 1060 or RX 480. The two comments above seem to be conflicting regarding the 480's performance. Anyone else have experience with the 480?
                      Jim1348
                      Jim1348
                      Joined: 19 Jan 06
                      Posts: 463
                      Credit: 257957147
                      RAC: 0

                      Matt_145 wrote:Thanks for the

                      18 Feb 2017 17:56:44 UTC
                      Message 155579 in response to message 155574
                      (moderation:
                        )

                        Matt_145 wrote:
                        Thanks for the info and advice everyone. I was thinking either a 1060 or RX 480. The two comments above seem to be conflicting regarding the 480's performance.

                        Check out the power too.  I think you will find that the GTX 1060 is more efficient (PPD/watt) than the RX 480.

                        Comment viewing options

                        Select your preferred way to display the comments and click "Save settings" to activate your changes.

                        Forums › Cruncher's Corner