Anything contributing wise that takes advantage of RT cores?

[mopardude87]

Been ages since i have jumped intro contributed folding. Main reason is how annoying my favorite Folding@Home had tanked performance. I guess its all about a special driver version and some odd and in version of a particular version of software or something? I miss contributing but i am more of a average user then a master cracker hacker.

So i got a 2070 to "upgrade" a failed used 1070ti. Overkill for 1080p gaming but so far been useless concerning RT cores as i only own BF5 with it and of course it runs like trash go figure. I figured mind as well put them to good use folding. I saw a thread about insanely good ppd with the default Folding@Home client cause of the RT cores but wasn't sure if it was concrete. Of course like usual i install it and give it any and all resources and i get some absolute horrid pdd.

I am currently running driver version 431.36 on a stock 2070 with a 8700 non k 16gb of ram and a ssd. Running Windows 10 1903 and as much as i would like to revert this trash version back to like 1809 its been past the 10 days so i am stuck with it till i do a reinstall. 1903 of course gives me worst fps in BF3 then i had on a 970 back on W7. If it impacts folding idk but i wouldn't be surprised there.

 

[biodoc]

Of course like usual i install it and give it any and all resources and i get some absolute horrid pdd.

I recently started folding again with my new 2070 and also noticed FAHcontrol reports a low PPD. They made some changes and now FAHcontrol calculates PPD on the base points only. Actual PPD should include the bonus points. See this thread. The latest version of HFM.net will give you base + bonus PPD. Depending on the project, I'm seeing 1-1.5 milion ppd on the 2070.

 

[mopardude87]

I gave it another shot and after like 5 minutes or so its showing a max of 186k ppd and tpf is 2 minutes and 55 seconds. Not running the cpu client atm. Looks like gpu usage is staying around 91% usage.

Will download the other client and see if i could work with it. Thanks

 

[mopardude87]

Tried the HFM.NET client and its a bit overwhelming for sure. Tried to set it up but its more of a pain in the rear then i wanna deal with for something i wanna let idle if you know what i mean. Might fiddle with it later. I had good memories with the standard f@h client so will stick to it unless its just confirmed absolutely broken.

Appears the TPF is extremely low for my 2070. A 2060 from a thread i found shows 1 minute 46 seconds and i am still at nearly 3 minutes here. Is there a particular driver version i need or do i need to adjust a particular setting to fix this? I kind of wish this stuff was a bit more plug n play. Haven't had a plug n play good running client since my gtx280. Yeah its been that long.

 

[mopardude87]

Derp not sure why i didn't bother but i set up a passkey and its now showing 934k. I forgot how important those keys can be. The TPF is still the same but is there a chance its posting incorrectly too?

 

[biodoc]

I just checked FAHControl and it looks like they fixed the PPD problem. If you click on the log tab, you can also check how many points are awarded after a WU finishes.

16:16:46:WU02:FS00:Upload complete
16:16:46:WU02:FS00:Server responded WORK_ACK (400)
16:16:46:WU02:FS00:Final credit estimate, 75475.00 poin

Another useful utility for checking bonus points based on project # and TPF is here.

I'm running my 2070 on linux so historically PPD is a bit better than windows.

 

[mopardude87]

I just checked FAHControl and it looks like they fixed the PPD problem. If you click on the log tab, you can also check how many points are awarded after a WU finishes.

16:16:46:WU02:FS00:Upload complete
16:16:46:WU02:FS00:Server responded WORK_ACK (400)
16:16:46:WU02:FS00:Final credit estimate, 75475.00 poin

Another useful utility for checking bonus points based on project # and TPF is here.

I'm running my 2070 on linux so historically PPD is a bit better than windows.

Thanks for the utility link. Appears currently my first project which is 14191 is delivering about 980k ppd. I did roll back drivers cause someone in a folding forum mentioned lower ppd after 425.31 on their 2070 . Yeah i remember Linux being better at this kind of stuff but i am more of a casual desktop user who games and just wants to help out on folding. Maybe i might load up Linux and run that too. Been ages since i ran any version of Linux and the last one was Ubuntu during the C2D days.

 

[TennesseeTony]

Heya mopardude87! Glad to see doc already has hooked you up with some good info.

Re Linux: Mint 19.2 is a friendly version.

 

[StefanR5R]

Regarding the performance improvement of Turing over Pascal in many DC projects:
This is unrelated to RT cores. Rather, it is due to reorganizations in the classic shader units which mostly already happened in Volta.