AMD Radeon VII
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#1 AMD Radeon VII
The new 7 nm GPU became available here in the US last week. The Radeon VII (Vega 20) had specs too good to pass up. 11136/13824 (base/boost) SP GFLOPS and 2784/3458 DP GLFOPS, 300W TBP. So I bought a couple with plans to sell one. Anyone interest in the other? PM me if interested. I'll ship to the UK as long as you pay the shipping, VAT, etc.
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#2 Re: AMD Radeon VII
Yikes 300W !
Love to hear how you get on with it. Will you be crunching Milky Way with all that DP power?
How much does one cost State-side?
Love to hear how you get on with it. Will you be crunching Milky Way with all that DP power?
How much does one cost State-side?
I think this is fool-proof but could you just try it for me please? • There are 10 types of people in the world; those who understand binary, and those who don’t
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#3 Re: AMD Radeon VII
The crunching power of 3x R9 280X/HD7970 but using 1/3 the juice and creating 1/3 the heat.
Here'a system that ran a set of Milkyway WUs. ~20 sec per WU...https://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/re ... tid=797216
$699+tax but most retailers are out of stock already. I found a couple at a Micro Center in Duluth, Georgia and my brother picked them up and is mailing them to me.
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#4 Re: AMD Radeon VII
Wowser - first one I checked was validated on an nVidia 1070ti taking 7 times longer https://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/wo ... 1716893243
I think this is fool-proof but could you just try it for me please? • There are 10 types of people in the world; those who understand binary, and those who don’t
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Milkyway testing in 4c/8t i7-3770 system
In reality, it did 309 WUs and logged 65k cr in an hour. It might do a little more once pendings start going valid.
Avg Sec | Theoretical | Theoretical | |
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# WUs | per WU | WU per Hour | Hourly Cr |
8 | 92 | 313.04 | 71,061 |
6 | 68 | 317.65 | 72,106 |
4 | 46 | 313.04 | 71,061 |
3 | 35 | 308.57 | 70,046 |
2 | 28 | 257.14 | 58,371 |
1 | 22 | 163.64 | 37,145 |
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#6 Re: AMD Radeon VII
Looking good
have you tried it on Collatz yet?
have you tried it on Collatz yet?
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#7 Re: AMD Radeon VII
Collatz testing in 4c/8t i7-3770 system
Using this config and app_config.xml...
verbose=1
kernels_per_reduction=48
threads=8
lut_size=17
sleep=1
reduce_cpu=0
sieve_size=28
<app_config>
<project_max_concurrent>1</project_max_concurrent>
<app>
<name>collatz_sieve</name>
<gpu_versions>
<gpu_usage>1</gpu_usage>
<cpu_usage>1</cpu_usage>
</gpu_versions>
</app>
</app_config>
If there's a tighter config I'll try it.
Run Time | CPU Time | Credit |
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301.72 | 4.97 | 30,903.39 |
311.19 | 4.73 | 32,869.79 |
311.57 | 4.59 | 31,015.35 |
277.69 | 11.88 | 30,968.73 |
333.21 | 18.30 | 32,658.67 |
verbose=1
kernels_per_reduction=48
threads=8
lut_size=17
sleep=1
reduce_cpu=0
sieve_size=28
<app_config>
<project_max_concurrent>1</project_max_concurrent>
<app>
<name>collatz_sieve</name>
<gpu_versions>
<gpu_usage>1</gpu_usage>
<cpu_usage>1</cpu_usage>
</gpu_versions>
</app>
</app_config>
If there's a tighter config I'll try it.
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#8 Re: AMD Radeon VII
Increased sieve_size from 28 to 30. The avg credit/run-sec went from 96.88 to 114.76 which is an 18% improvement.
Collatz testing in 4c/8t i7-3770 system
Using this config and app_config.xml...
verbose=1
kernels_per_reduction=48
threads=8
lut_size=17
sleep=1
reduce_cpu=0
sieve_size=30
<app_config>
<project_max_concurrent>1</project_max_concurrent>
<app>
<name>collatz_sieve</name>
<gpu_versions>
<gpu_usage>1</gpu_usage>
<cpu_usage>1</cpu_usage>
</gpu_versions>
</app>
</app_config>
Collatz testing in 4c/8t i7-3770 system
Run Time | CPU Time | Credit |
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245.70 | 3.03 | 28,188.33 |
246.63 | 3.22 | 27,677.64 |
244.74 | 5.19 | 28,116.11 |
245.70 | 4.81 | 28,804.47 |
verbose=1
kernels_per_reduction=48
threads=8
lut_size=17
sleep=1
reduce_cpu=0
sieve_size=30
<app_config>
<project_max_concurrent>1</project_max_concurrent>
<app>
<name>collatz_sieve</name>
<gpu_versions>
<gpu_usage>1</gpu_usage>
<cpu_usage>1</cpu_usage>
</gpu_versions>
</app>
</app_config>
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#9 Re: AMD Radeon VII
Many thanks for the info. As you said yourself, I think, the really significant improvement is on projects which use double precision math
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#10 Re: AMD Radeon VII
Einstein testing in 4c/8t i7-3770 system
I get too many computation errors running 3 WUs at a time. I don't think it was running at 100% though. Maybe somebody has an idea to resolve it.
Amicable Numbers testing in 4c/8t i7-3770 system
Forget it. Something has changed. 4 WUs on a GTX 1080 only having it peaking at 30% utilization. Not enough GPU memory to run more. Difficult to tell what the Radeon VII is doing. MSI Afterburner nor GPU-Z see anything and AMD's new software stinks.
Avg Sec | Theoretical | Theoretical | |
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# WUs | per WU | WU per Hour | Hourly Cr |
1 | 272 | 13.24 | 45,860 |
2 | 421 | 17.10 | 59,259 |
3 | 521 | 20.73 | 71,827 |
Amicable Numbers testing in 4c/8t i7-3770 system
Forget it. Something has changed. 4 WUs on a GTX 1080 only having it peaking at 30% utilization. Not enough GPU memory to run more. Difficult to tell what the Radeon VII is doing. MSI Afterburner nor GPU-Z see anything and AMD's new software stinks.