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MilkyWay@H Benchmark thread Spring 2014 - Summer 2016

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wayliff said:
I used all the WUs (106.88 MilkyWay@Home v1.02) from the first page of valid results.
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Have you checked your results very many times? The first page is only 14 minutes worth of examples.

Are all of the results within one second of your average? Mine are all within one tenth of a second of my average. If you have some that are higher than most throw them out for your average, the CPU was being used by something else during that time.

The first page of my results show a low of 26.06 and a high of 26.18. In ten pages I found a high of 26.23.

MW@H doesn't like sharing it's CPU!
 
GLeeM said:
Have you checked your results very many times? The first page is only 14 minutes worth of examples.

Are all of the results within one second of your average? Mine are all within one tenth of a second of my average. If you have some that are higher than most throw them out for your average, the CPU was being used by something else during that time.

The first page of my results show a low of 26.06 and a high of 26.18. In ten pages I found a high of 26.23.

MW@H doesn't like sharing it's CPU!
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Ok, I double checked and a CPU is dedicated to it.
I upgraded my drivers to the Catalyst Omega 14.12 released two days ago.

I've now taken the 38 first samples.
Average: 37.1136, High: 45.27, Low: 36.11

I went back, as much as possible, to re-check averages before the driver upgrade. I got 8 samples, nothing else under valid.
Average: 42.08, High: 47.87, Low: 40.24

So far, it has improved. We'll see what Boincstats looks like tomorrow.
 
tangential for this thread: milkyway stopped sending me work units. anyone know how to restart it? i tried resetting the project.

edit: apparently this is a problem with all R9 290s. dasm.
 
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Oh! Problem fixed now??

Anymore times anyone?
(new CPU time added)

wayliff
Did that ~37s average time hold?
 
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My rig that I wish to report is an i7-5820K, OC'd automatically by my MotherBoard to 4.1 GHz, 16Gb DDR4, tested with Hyper-threading OFF as requested, running a Gigabyte R9-280X, factory clock settings of 1100MHz CPU, 1500MHz (6000MHz effective) RAM, and only running one GPU task at a time with a dedicated CPU core.

My GPU is blazing fast, as are the other R9-280X's that have reported in, which is why I usually run three tasks at a time, but it's crunching the single WU's about half at 23 secs and half at 24 secs. So...23.5 seconds average.

I can crunch 3 at a time in 61-65 seconds, which is not only faster, but I then have two other tasks working in case one stalls on me.

As for the CPU times, they are looking to be impressive, but they are ongoing at the moment. 40 minutes maybe? We shall all have to wait until after I mow the yard...for the second time this season. :\

Edit: Wow, done already on the CPU, 2055 seconds, or 34min 15 secs...all 5 tasks. Now, I've got a yard to mow and a race to get back to. 😉

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Just want to provide current times for a 7950. A 7950 clocked at 925/1250 using catalyst 14.12 on a i7-3770k @4.0 with windows 10 build 10041. gpu time average of 31.18s with a cpu time of 2.43s.

Edit 1:rechecked the times this morning and the wus are now taking longer i'm averaging 43.49s gpu time and 1.83s cpu time. For some reason it was faster yesterday, tried with HT off and leaving 2 cores for 1 wu and the times stayed consistent.

Edit 2: figured out what caused the discrepancy. windows 10 updated the driver to newer version that runs milkyway slower. Reinstalled 12.14 and disabled windows update, hopefully it'll prevent windows from updating the driver. Updates on windows 10 are automatic with no choice to cancel.
 
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I'm amazed people are getting less than two minutes per WU! I'm getting ~412s on an EVGA GTX 750ti SC.

And multiple WUs at a time don't seem to help. They just seem to trip over each others' bandwidth. (I'm on PCIe 1.1.)
 
I have run 4 off pci-e 1x with no bandwidth issues. The primary boost for me in running multiple wu's is the elimination of the 2-3second delay between finish and starting the next one.But at 412secs, an extra few seconds don't hurt. Lol

Nvidias just don't have good double precision, the amd's have 1:4 ratio vs 1:32??
 
Ken g6 said:
I'm amazed people are getting less than two minutes per WU! I'm getting ~412s on an EVGA GTX 750ti SC.

And multiple WUs at a time don't seem to help. They just seem to trip over each others' bandwidth. (I'm on PCIe 1.1.)
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The maxwell core really cut back on double precision, something MW uses. iirc its 1/32. I guess they had to cut something out to gt those great efficiency gains.
 
waffleironhead said:
The maxwell core really cut back on double precision, something MW uses. iirc its 1/32. I guess they had to cut something out to gt those great efficiency gains.
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I wonder if I should stick my GTX 460 back in? I don't see a 460 benchmark, though. I see this:

zzuupp said:
GTX 560ti : 264s. This is much looser. I've got high 240s to low 270s with the higher times more prevalent.
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But I don't know how much slower a 460 would be.
 
Slightly OT:
Can we persuade som more crunchers to join MilkyWay@home, preferrably with a lot of highpowered GPUs? The is a race going on and the TeAm need all the crunching power we can get!
 
MW race!? Damn I didn't know that! I should be around more! :$
Might join that, although the last time I ran MW (several weeks ago IIRC) the damn GPU fan keep revving up & down! 🙁

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Thx for all the times guys 🙂, I'll add that another day, no time tonight! Gotta watch TWD season finale! 😉
 
70% would be deafening with my HD 5850, 53% is loud 😉.
As per my post in the race thread I probably need to de-dust it.

Btw I've added your times now 🙂, doing the others in a mo.
Oh & yea I know running multiple tasks gives better output on high end cards, but it just doesn't give reliable benchmarks, as per my blurb.

Nice CPU time btw! 😀
Would like to add my old CPU to the list, but I think I can only do that once I stop MW on the GPU, as the v1.0x app needs old cat drivers for the 5800s & 6900s, unless they've fixed that problem recently??

Is that 4850 time from 5+ 106.88 credit WUs?

Salvorhardin
Thx for your GPU time 🙂
Don't fancy crunching some CPU WUs?

waffleironhead
Thx for your time 🙂, unusual to have a laptop time, I bet it ran hot?
Oh I rounded the time to avoid messing up formatting 😉
 
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Assimilator1 said:
waffleironhead
Thx for your time 🙂, unusual to have a laptop time, I bet it ran hot?
Oh I rounded the time to avoid messing up formatting 😉
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Yeah it was kinda hot. The cpu has a base clock of 2.0Ghz, but was throttling down to 1.86. I think the heatsink and fan cover the cpu and gpu.
I had collatz running on the cpu, ipg and the gpu, it was throttling down to 1.4Ghz D: ( I didnt leave that going for long)
 
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