GPU PPD in Folding at Home

[TennesseeTony]

Folding at home has many types of workunits/tasks. Most give about the same amount of points per unit of time. But some give too little, some too many points. Let's try to create a bit of data, and see if it is really the task, or the architecture that task is running on that is causing too few or too many points.

In your first post please give a quick rundown on your system, such as the CPU, GPU, Ram and your overclocked speeds or if they are at stock speeds. Also please ensure you feed your GPU at least one thread of CPU power on faster systems, two threads/one core for slower systems.

After that, your updates need only to contain the PRCG number and the Estimated PPD. Also please ensure the task is at least 10% done, so that the PPD has stabilized somewhat.

This information is available in both the web view and advanced view. Please ensure you click the GPU you are reporting, otherwise the information shown might be for the CPU or another GPU.

Web view:

Advanced view:

 

[TennesseeTony]

Only running one system right now, Core i7-5820K@3.3GHz, (12 threads), 2x GTX-1070@1900-ishGHz, 4x4GB DDR4, Win10.

PRCG / PPD
10496/658292
11707/668525
9211/575855

 

[Markfw]

Here is a spreadhseet with what I have so far(the numbers are rounded to the closest 1k, and in k)
:

 

[theAnimal]

You may find this of interest, assuming you have not seen it already.

http://www.overclock.net/t/475163/gpu-projects-ppd-database

 

[Markfw]

You may find this of interest, assuming you have not seen it already.

http://www.overclock.net/t/475163/gpu-projects-ppd-database

But that does not consider unit (PRCG) and it varies widely for the same card.

I don;t have all the data captured, but I have seen my 1080's do 300k and 950k. Here I have variance from 467 to 844, but it gets worse.

 

[TennesseeTony]

Actually Mark, take another look at the link. The chart shown has variables/links at the bottom, that change the presented info, and PRCG is shown on several of the views, along with PPD.

Good find theAnimal!

 

[Markfw]

oh, yes, you are correct ! but for 9208 (for example) they do not have 1080 of 980ti or 1070, etc.... Lots of other missing pieces. So lets continue !

And they have 4 980TI's beating the best 1080, and those scores are higher than any of my 5 ti's, but lower than I have seen many times on my 1080.

So, again, lets continue to assemble our own stats, that we believe.

 

[TennesseeTony]

6am
10496 / 624000 (rounded)
9211 / 569000 same task from last night, but at 96% now
13500 / 670000 but only 4%

 

[iwajabitw]

Ok, some one tell me how to optimize fah settings for my 2 980's and i7 5820K. Just logged in to the system remotely and both gpu tasks said fail. Had to shut it all down and restart it for it to get new wu's. Is this common with the project. Have it set to medium using 9 threads on cpu cores.

 

[Markfw]

Ok, some one tell me how to optimize fah settings for my 2 980's and i7 5820K. Just logged in to the system remotely and both gpu tasks said fail. Had to shut it all down and restart it for it to get new wu's. Is this common with the project. Have it set to medium using 9 threads on cpu cores.

Well, now that its going (not sure what the fail was, driver ??) reset the CPU to between 6 and 8 cores. 8 should be OK, but check the usage after its going and make sure it never spikes to 100%. If it does, go down to 6.

 

[iwajabitw]

Cpu slot set to 8 cores. Set each gpu slot to 1 cpu core in configuration. Left everything else default. Had another fail on 1 gpu, it's just sitting there, can't find a way to force a new Wu download. 2nd gpu says 7.00 eta to finish. Have 375.xx drivers installed, GeForce says there is a new 375.xx available. So my drivers are just a month okd, if that. Nothings over clocked, just Edge, HWC monitor, and afterburner open.

 

[iwajabitw]

Meant 376.xx driver available

 

[TennesseeTony]

3.30pm

9210 / 371000
11707 / 654000

 

[TennesseeTony]

iwajabitw, delete the offending task in this manner:

Pause folding, in Windows enable hidden folders: C:\Users\user name\AppData\Roaming\FAHClient\work\ then delete the whole offending folder (usually 00 or 01 or 02) , which ever task is trying to download. In the pic below, you can see in the bottom half, that the task at 3.44% is (to the left) task ID 00. So if 00 task were trying to download but failing, I'd delete folder 00.

 

[iwajabitw]

Thanks, the 01 folder was already gone, had to reboot the program and at the moment all seems good.

 

[Markfw]

Update, the latest numbers:

 

[iwajabitw]

9151 / 357587-GPU 980
10490 / 350226-GPU 980
No CPU tasks right now, letting boinc use those on my WCG cache.

Thanks for the help, seems like its running smooth now!

 

[Markfw]

BTW, with 11 cards to keep track of, when I review my farm 3 or 4 times a day, if the numbers are similar to whats in my spreadsheet, I don;t add a duplicate, so this is only an approximate science. I guess I could also keep track of the download time, but that seems a little too much for what I am trying to accomplish.

 

[TennesseeTony]

11.30pm
13500 / 667000
10495 / 617000
9180 / Only 10% but I like this one...717000

5.30am
13500 again / 672000
9208 / ~584000 5%
.............572000 6%
.............582000 7% and it's running on my 'bad' card at 'only' 1885core/8552(4276)mem

 

[Markfw]

Updated as of right now:

The interesting thing. No cards like the 92xx series, and the 1070 beats my 1080 for a 9211 ! Or at least that 9211.

Edit: except the 980ti seems to like the 9205 at over 800k ppd

 

[TennesseeTony]

6.30
13500 again / 677500 At least we know those are fairly consistent
9196 / 627000 @5% and an hour later at 59%

7.30
9188 / 751k to 773k from 36% to 39%

8.30
9195 / 754k
11407 / 722k

 

[iwajabitw]

8:05

9152 / 269044 40%
9657 /290901 96%

 

[Markfw]

8:05

9152 / 269044 40%
9657 /290901 96%

But what video card do you have ?

 

[iwajabitw]

9657 Failed out.

 

[iwajabitw]

In my sig, both are GTX 980 matching cards