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MilkyWay@H Benchmark thread Spring 2014 - Summer 2016

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Mark, I'll run single tasks on host FX8320E for you overnight, but I am swamped with house remodeling, from sun up until bedtime while I'm on holiday, so I'll let you look through my history for the times. Those cards are MSI R9-280X's running at 1020MHz with a AMD FX8320E CPU.
 
Ok cool, thanks Tony 🙂
I'll run single tasks on my Tahiti once the F@H race is over.

Have fun with house remodelling! 😉 Do you mean decorating btw?
 
I mean I tore out all the windows, doors, inside walls, electric, plumbing, flooring, etc., leaving the outside walls and the roof and the slab of concrete it sits upon. 🙂 Now I'm putting it all back together again.
 
Okay I'm losing points like crazy running one task at a time, so here's a screen grab for you, if you didn't already collect the data. I'm was wrong, these task seem quite stable time-wise, and suitable for a new benchmark thread.

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Wow! You've totally gutted your(?) house! 😱, good luck with the work then, hope it all goes well 🙂.

Thanks for the scrnshot Tony 🙂, looks like about an average of 54.8s, so are your 280Xs still clocked at 1100/1500?
If so then the new WUs take more than twice as long as the old MW v1.02 ones! Although, to be honest they needed to take longer! 😉
It's interesting to see that the CPU time required for each WU has shot up too, I'm sure the old mod fit & MW v1.02 WUs only needed a few seconds of CPU time!
I'll use your & waffleironhead's times for the new thread.

Using waffleironhead's times for his HD 6950, I wanted to see what kind of improvement running multiple WUs at once vs sequentially achieves with v1.43,

101.33 seconds, running 1 at a time
179.49/2= 89.74 seconds, running 2 ....... 11.4%/WU faster
328.11/4= 82.0275 seconds, running 4 ... 19%/WU faster
612.44/8= 76.55 seconds, running 8 ....... 24.4%/WU faster

A significant improvement indeed! 🙂

Looking at your valid tasks for your HD 6950 I see these times which are presumable your single WU times (correct me if I'm wrong). 102.3, 101.3, 101.9, 102.2, 101.4, 101.2, 102.4, 102.3, giving an average of 101.2s.
 
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Opps, sorry, forgot about that post! 😱 lol

Re CPU speed, hmm, will be interesting to see after we've had some more results.
I'm going to start a new thread, I'll link these 2 threads.
Btw, I don't suppose you know if thread titles can be edited? ....actually, Smoke should know 😉
 
While I'm finishing my morning coffee, I'm letting host Red run single tasks. Red has a 280X at 1080MHz, and the CPU is a dual core Pentium G3220 @ 3.00GHz, driver 1.4.1848 (according to the host page at MW, but Catalyst 15.11 is what I have in my download folder), running Windows 7 64bit. According to Milkyway's host page(s), this dual core is about 33% more powerful in single threaded applications than FX8320E.

FX8320E is running Windows 10, 64bit, driver 21.19.164.257. It would appear this is a driver provided by Microsoft...as I don't see any catalyst downloads. lol I can't believe I forgot to install a proper driver and let Windows download it's own. Catalyst ver 16.11.5. Small hard drive, I guess I deleted the download.

Ok, coffee has been consumed, and now it's time for a screenshot from Red:

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I don't see how a mere 5.5% boost in the GPU clock can account for 36% more performance, so the 33% faster CPU almost has to be the reason, especially considering the CPU time: Eleven seconds less CPU time, 14.5 seconds less task time......hmmmmm.
 
Yea, looks like the CPU does have a large influence now, interesting! I will have to note that in the new bench requirements.
So yea, your faster time does seem to be largely down to the faster CPU, I take it the driver update made no real difference?
(Btw, if we could carry this on in the new thread 😉)
 
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